Having had four skin cancers carved off me, who had severe sunburns as a kid — sunscreen in 1968? HA! — I slather that shit on now. BEMT means no reapplication every 90min and it's much broader spectrum than the stuff we have now.
I hate chemical sunscreen for the smell, consistency and just how sticky it makes you. I guess it’s fine for some people but if you’re outside near dust and sand you basically just get this gross crust. I just skip it and use the mineral sunscreen (tinted on my face) and skip to that state. I love it now that it comes in spray on.
Yeah I'm tired of the insipid acronyms. I use some occasionally, but if I have to stop what is being written and dictionary some gobbledygook, you've lost me. I've moved on to someone who has something to say.
If you want some good deep dives on sunscreen, I recommend the YouTube channel Lab Muffin Beauty Science. She has a PhD in chemistry and has made it her personal mission to debunk bad sunscreen information. (She also has a really nifty book called the Science of Beauty that has cool illustrations of how things like hair conditioner work.)
I was just explaining to my SO that the reason we have a bunch of little bottles of sunscreen (Nivea Super Water Gel) is because they are the good sunscreen I can only find on amazon in little bottles.
My cosmetic dermatologist (yes, I have one for vanity and one for keeping me cancer-free, I'm Of a Certain Age) recommended a Korean line, Scinic. I lurrrve it. It's affordable despite tariff bullshit, effective and actually makes my skin look better.
I have a dermatologist that I see for quarterly full body checkups. About half the time they find something to biopsy, and half of those come back dirty for squamous cell carcinoma. I can't count how many I've had excised over the years.
My problem with sunscreen is that I'm a hairy guy and I can't stand greasy sunscreen. I guess I should ask her.
I seriously love Scinic! Not at all greasy, and I know and loathe that feeling myself. And it's scent free so wouldn't be weird for the average guy to use. At least it's squamous cell; still cancer and you still need to get it taken care of, but not the scary fast spreading melanoma.
I’ve lost two friends to squamous cell. It’s not harmless if you let it slide. It will metastasize, if left to its own devices. Hence my quarterly checkups!
Today, Mrs. Blockhead got some kind of cancer cut out off her back that the doctor assures us is not a big deal. She is WHITE and has always avoided the sun, uses sunscreen, wears sun shirt, etc., and it is still a problem. Why anyone would court disaster when it is going to probably catch you anyway is beyond me.
I'm constantly told that my skin damage was done in my yute. I tend to believe this because I can't count how many squamous cell carcinomas I've had removed from my scalp that has been covered by hats my entire adult life. Mrs. Blockhead my be in the same boat?
Coming to you from the world capital of melanoma is Sunbutter Sunscreen, which is reef-safe and also vegan, if that is relevant to you
Having had four skin cancers carved off me, who had severe sunburns as a kid — sunscreen in 1968? HA! — I slather that shit on now. BEMT means no reapplication every 90min and it's much broader spectrum than the stuff we have now.
I hate chemical sunscreen for the smell, consistency and just how sticky it makes you. I guess it’s fine for some people but if you’re outside near dust and sand you basically just get this gross crust. I just skip it and use the mineral sunscreen (tinted on my face) and skip to that state. I love it now that it comes in spray on.
Maybe we should stop referring to the Secretary of HHS by his initials. Camelot is dead. Stop trying to continue it.
Nobody refers to anything except by initials these days. If they didn't, they'd have to type the whole word! Screeeeech!
Sorry, totally OT!
Yeah I'm tired of the insipid acronyms. I use some occasionally, but if I have to stop what is being written and dictionary some gobbledygook, you've lost me. I've moved on to someone who has something to say.
If you want some good deep dives on sunscreen, I recommend the YouTube channel Lab Muffin Beauty Science. She has a PhD in chemistry and has made it her personal mission to debunk bad sunscreen information. (She also has a really nifty book called the Science of Beauty that has cool illustrations of how things like hair conditioner work.)
Thank you, Robyn, for keeping us up to date!
The Substandard is fubar again.
Hilarious, Knicks fans are burning sage outside Madison Square Garden to exorcise the "Trump Curse"
Holy smokes. From the Garnier link: Prepaid Import Duties, Taxes & Fees $41.62
For 20$ worth of sunscreen. Fuck Trump.
It's about $27 if you have Prime. It's called Garnier Ombrelle but it's the same product.
I was just explaining to my SO that the reason we have a bunch of little bottles of sunscreen (Nivea Super Water Gel) is because they are the good sunscreen I can only find on amazon in little bottles.
My cosmetic dermatologist (yes, I have one for vanity and one for keeping me cancer-free, I'm Of a Certain Age) recommended a Korean line, Scinic. I lurrrve it. It's affordable despite tariff bullshit, effective and actually makes my skin look better.
I have a dermatologist that I see for quarterly full body checkups. About half the time they find something to biopsy, and half of those come back dirty for squamous cell carcinoma. I can't count how many I've had excised over the years.
My problem with sunscreen is that I'm a hairy guy and I can't stand greasy sunscreen. I guess I should ask her.
I seriously love Scinic! Not at all greasy, and I know and loathe that feeling myself. And it's scent free so wouldn't be weird for the average guy to use. At least it's squamous cell; still cancer and you still need to get it taken care of, but not the scary fast spreading melanoma.
Thanks for the rec!
I’ve lost two friends to squamous cell. It’s not harmless if you let it slide. It will metastasize, if left to its own devices. Hence my quarterly checkups!
As a child, I lived in Rio de Janeiro and was regularly dragged to Copacabana Beach by my parents. Huge blisters.
At 20 I climbed a 12,300' mountain and got a sunburn so bad that I had to seek medical care.
At 35 I was first diagnosed with skin cancer (face), and 47 years later am resigned to regular surgeries.
MORAL: If your ancestors came from Ireland, stay out of the sun; Bobby should have.
Celts lack high expression of a gene called PPDR, which repairs DNA damage from UV light.
Melanoma nerd here.
AHA! And I thought we were descended from the Good Folk.
OT:
Baconz looked up a quote on AI. And I found it.
"Trump is a d**do that a wh*re would get bored sticking up her a*s."
-AI Abraham Lincoln-
Never fucking Bowdlerize.
Today, Mrs. Blockhead got some kind of cancer cut out off her back that the doctor assures us is not a big deal. She is WHITE and has always avoided the sun, uses sunscreen, wears sun shirt, etc., and it is still a problem. Why anyone would court disaster when it is going to probably catch you anyway is beyond me.
I'm constantly told that my skin damage was done in my yute. I tend to believe this because I can't count how many squamous cell carcinomas I've had removed from my scalp that has been covered by hats my entire adult life. Mrs. Blockhead my be in the same boat?
I didn't realize kids these days were into skin cancer maxxing.
Well what can you say about kids who want to hit their faces with hammers?
Yes, but when those scars go out of style they're stuck with them.
I'm longing for the Mar-a-Lago pagent in 10 years.
Ok, if you're name is Tim, maybe stay away from this town:https://www.youtube.com/shorts/n8M41jsnUUc