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Who do you know that wears suncream everyday?

  • 15-07-2022 5:42pm
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,656 ✭✭✭


    Apparently this is quite common.

    You supposed to wear high SPF suncream on your face 365 days of the year,even in Ireland,even in winter.

    I have been very irresponsible in the sun all my life,had to see a consultant about sun damage on my face and he said I have to do this forever.

    I should have listened to Baz Lurman.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,792 ✭✭✭silliussoddius


    Baz Luhrman.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,567 ✭✭✭Irish_rat


    It's not that hard to do all part of a routine, there is plenty of sunscreens that are very light on the face. I would wear often enough, have been getting into a routine to do it daily again especially in the summer



  • Registered Users Posts: 142 ✭✭hunter2000


    Keep factor 50 off the Mickey especially the helmet.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,656 ✭✭✭HBC08




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,392 ✭✭✭✭Furze99


    Sounds like the sort of advice you'd follow if you want to poison yourself! Mid summer if you're going to be out and about a fair bit, it makes sense. Other times of the year? We do also have a problem with lack of sun/ daylight exposure - needed to make Vit D, iirc. So a bit of skin exposure to sun/ daylight no harm at all in autumn/ winter/ spring.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,568 ✭✭✭✭Jim_Hodge


    As someone who has had BCCs and skin cancers, I'll stick with the medical advise, thank you.



  • Moderators, Music Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,734 Mod ✭✭✭✭Boom_Bap


    BCC Friend!!!

    Yeah, that advise is not good advise.



  • Registered Users Posts: 601 ✭✭✭WJL


    My aunt has a white cat with sensitive ears, he goes through tons of sun cream.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,088 ✭✭✭✭Strumms


    The mother and my aunt.. both had skin cancers and are told to wear it daily and do so.


    Numerous medical studies show it decreases you chance of reoccurrence of skin cancer. Both have been told to wear it by dermatologists and do, the mother keeps a tube of sun cream in the car year round. As well as in the house.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,969 ✭✭✭✭Leg End Reject


    Try malignant melanoma and then see if you'd advise using sunscreen.

    I haven't had it but metastasis tends to be rapid and deadly.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,611 ✭✭✭muddypaws


    I use suncream as a facial moisturiser year round, I put it on every morning.



  • Registered Users Posts: 601 ✭✭✭WJL


    Baz Luhrmann.



  • Registered Users Posts: 601 ✭✭✭WJL


    Sorry I'm after repeating your post. I hadn't read the thread🙂



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,656 ✭✭✭HBC08


    Just listening to John Creedon and he had that song on,hadn't heard it in about 20 years,coincidence!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 220 ✭✭put_the_kettle_on


    I've worn sunscreen pretty much all my adult life. I have to, I'm ridiculously sensitive to the sun.

    On the plus side though a lifetime of floating about looking decidedly spectral has rewarded me with virtually no wrinkles.



  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Wasn't their something about nano particles in sunscreen getting into bloodstream before?



  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Me. Every day regardless of the season. I wear a mineral one because my skin can be sensitive. My main motivation for it is anti aging purposes and because sun exposure increases my sensitivity. Of course the health reasons are also important.



  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    I wear SPF50 on my face all year around, following dermatologist's advice. Several years ago, I noticed a darker patch developing on one side of my face and had it investigated. The dermatologist I saw in TUH warned me that it was not cancerous "yet, but could become so" (heavy emphasis on yet) if I did not take precautions.



  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    My regular moisturiser is SPF 15 so i suppose I am such a person. 30 or 50 (children's!) during very sunny weather. My face isn't crazy pale but the rest of me is milky white and there's no way I'd manage to get a tan. Got bad sunburn as a kid, and never again.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,712 ✭✭✭✭BorneTobyWilde


    I use it all year round, but I do skip parts, like back of neck, front of neck, I use on face, I guess I need to up my game to use it on all exposed skin.

    If you want a great product easy to use, leaves no white haze, then I recommend Jack Black Double Duty Face Moisturizer with broad spectrum SPF 20.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,291 ✭✭✭-=al=-


    I use a moisturiser everyday on my face with SPF in it. When in hotter climates usually cover up all exposed areas, that’s about it. Easy peasy. If it’s dark or post late shower just use regular moisturiser without SPF that’s the extent of me bothering really. Simple and effective skin care laziness

    Edit: It’s Jack Black i use too. Seems legit. Cetaphil for no SPF. Kiehl’s is also decent for SPF and non SPF



  • Registered Users Posts: 2,108 ✭✭✭Electric Sheep


    I know nobody that wears Suncream. Everyone wears sheer spf sprays.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,037 ✭✭✭Slideways


    It’s “screen” not cream.


    I live in a hot part of Australia and work in an even hotter part. When you see old fellas here you know what the affects of sun long term on the skin is.


    I’ll be honest, I rarely if ever use it when I’m home, maybe if I went to the beach or was lying out in it.

    At work in the height of summer I’ll try and use it but the red dust sticks to it and I end up looking like trump and when you try and reapply it’s like a facial scrub. This year I’ll be better, I pinky promise



  • Registered Users Posts: 1,505 ✭✭✭fun loving criminal


    I have to wear 30 SPF in winter, everyday. And 50 in summer.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,656 ✭✭✭HBC08


    Can I ask why? A choice or you were told by a consultant as in my own case.

    Also can I ask what you use?

    I've been using some stuff the girlfriend gave me but it feels greasy and I dont feel clean after it.Ive never used moisturiser before for this reason.



  • Registered Users Posts: 1,505 ✭✭✭fun loving criminal


    Was told by a dermatologist. I use la roche posy brand because that was recommended by the dermatologist. Use one for the face and different one for exposed skin like arms and legs but both of them la roche posy. You can get it in any good chemist.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,268 ✭✭✭✭Wanderer78


    yea ive met one or two that do, i wear it a good bit throughout the year, obviously mostly during sunnier periods, but sometimes during the winter months, when on the mountains, as i experience wind burn regularly enough



  • Registered Users Posts: 142 ✭✭hunter2000


    Wind burn on the backside is bad, no more mini skirts climbing mangerton now.



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    Do you know your skin type? There are 4: Normal, oily, dry, and combination. Some will include Sensitive in that. Yours will determine what the best product is for you. There are tests you can take online which will help you figure it out.

    The right product won't leave you feeling greasy and not clean.

    Sun creams can be tricky though. Even those with skin of an armadillo can find it hard to get the right one. This isn't helped by talk of controversial ingredients such as oxy and avobenzone and the impact SPF products have on our oceans.

    Factor 15 isn't enough. You need to be wearing at least 30. Also for women wearing makeup the SPF included in it is rarely decent. Checking the ingredients list on Incidecoder will help. https://incidecoder.com/

    You need to wear an awful lot to get the full factor protection. It's 3 finger lengths for your face.

    I used a Vichy SPF 50 for years until it start to pill, perhaps connected to having developed mild rosacea. It was a chemical form so not great for any skin sensitivities. Anyways I now use Elta MD Pure SPF 47.

    It has antioxidants and is quite a sophisticated mineral cream but it leaves a white cast. I tried an Elave mineral SPF and while it didn't leave the cast it pilled and left my skin feeling dry.

    I've always loved skincare products and makeup. Since my skin turned sensitive I've done loads of research on different products and what's best to avoid and include. It's a sort of hobby of mine now.



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    Dermatologist also told me that moisturisers with a SPF factor did not offer enough protection, and that a separate SPF should be used.



  • Registered Users Posts: 5,513 ✭✭✭bb1234567


    Why did you mention baz luhrman?



  • Registered Users Posts: 5,513 ✭✭✭bb1234567


    I wear it daily because apparently most wrinkles are caused by the sun. I've been weating it daily for years now and look no younger than anyone else my age so I can't say it's made a big difference for me at least. And it's quite a lot of time,money and effort really over the course of years..so I know it's gold standard medical advice but I could hardly highly recommend the practice. And I am suspicious of studies now that do suggest such strong links between sun exposure and skin ageing. Like shouldn't Saudi arabian women who wear niqabs look decades younger than most people? And what about people who spent their life in prison with only one hour outside a day, they should look half their age but we can all see that that is never the case.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,656 ✭✭✭HBC08




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    Thats because its horse sh1t.

    Only people i see that are 60 and look 40 are Japanese/Chinese/rich etc.

    And thats because they're not stuffing their face with McDonald's 3 days a week or Haggen Daz laced with banned pesticides and all the rest. https://www.fsai.ie/news_centre/food_alerts/ethylene_oxide_haagen_dazs_vanilla_ice_cream.html.

    its only a little bit sure you'll be grand. Oops, its in your corn flakes aswell. Only a little youll be grand.


    Look up all these sayings, breakfast important meal of the day....or carbon credits is a more recent one of a similar vein....look where that came from.


    Few of ye here just cuz a dermatologist said something then its gospel....my GP doesn't know how someone that doesnt drink alcohol can have a fatty liver. Hes 10 years out of date with developments.



    People are suckers and spout this sh1t for decades.


    Xanthan gum is another thing thats in lots of foodstuffs for 60 years, always thought to pass straight through the body and then this year whoopsie!, It is actually broken down by 1 particular gutbacteria after all. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/04/220414110734.htm


    now to find the money and research it, another 10 years.


    But we're all fu*ked anyway so this stuff dont matter.



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    Hmm. 🤔

    A well-respected Professor of Dermatology at TUH or a random Boards user.

    I wonder whose advice I should follow on preventing skin cancer.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,106 ✭✭✭✭Dial Hard


    I wear SPF 30 moisturiser all year-round. In weather like this I wear a zinc-based factor 50 on my face, 30 anywhere else that's exposed. I'm quite moley so have to be very careful about the sun.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,656 ✭✭✭HBC08


    Thanks,I'm going to have to do something similar,I think I'll go with the 50spf all year round,what do you use?

    I'm very dark skinned for an irishman but I lived in hot climates for years and was burnt nearly every week,I ended up in hospital with 2nd degree burns on my feet after one escapade.

    I've a load of sun damage and can't change how dumb I was about it in the past but will wear it everyday now,going to keep trying stuff until I get some sort of non greasy moisturiser stuff.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,106 ✭✭✭✭Dial Hard


    I use Australian Gold Botanical SPF50. I like it because it's mattifying and I have very oily skin.

    Paula's Choice facial sunscreens are also very good.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,612 ✭✭✭cmac2009


    Some absolute headbangers with nonsense scientific quackery on this thread.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,443 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    People in Ireland historically have always called it 'suncream'.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,567 ✭✭✭Irish_rat


    Sun is one factor of wrinkles but I'd put stress and smoking way ahead of it.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,567 ✭✭✭Irish_rat




  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    If ye keep going ye'll have named every brand soon



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,656 ✭✭✭HBC08




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,009 ✭✭✭✭cj maxx


    I have to start wearing factor 50 , as even though I’m not outside as much , in this heat my rosacea has gone off the charts.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,313 ✭✭✭thefallingman


    Yes I found the simple brand moisturiser the best for that and nothing else, little red meat and no wine works for me 👍 oh and no shaving cream



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,265 ✭✭✭Xander10


    Yeah, have it in the ensuite. After morning shower and shave, I apply a factor 30 or 50 each morning.

    Part of my routine for the last year after seeing advice on TV.

    Post edited by Xander10 on


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,009 ✭✭✭✭cj maxx


    What's a simple brand moisturiser ? Boots or something else. Also I'm knocking the beer out when I saw my face. Prone to it on my nose , but this time I've suffered from really dry eyes and forehead.



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