Don’t know how this entered CT debate, but there’s a big diff between sunscreen & sunblock.
As a lifelong surfer, I use sunblock (Zinc Oxide or Titanium Dioxide) religiously, and avoid sunscreen.
People saying you shouldn’t put anything on your skin must not get out much.
As a lifelong surfer, I use sunblock (Zinc Oxide or Titanium Dioxide) religiously, and avoid sunscreen.
People saying you shouldn’t put anything on your skin must not get out much.
Sunscreen (lots of the chemicals ending in -ate) gets absorbed into your skin, which can be more cosmetically appealing, but then breaks down within your body — sunscreen breaks down, not your skin, so you don’t turn red — creating free radicals that *potentially* cause cancer.
Sunblock (Zinc Oxide, Titanium Dioxide) does not get absorbed into your body. It leaves an opaque coat, like putting a T-shirt on your face, that then protects your skin from directly receiving the sun’s rays.
Sunblock good, sunscreen questionable.
My skin would be fried if I didn’t use sunblock. Anyone that says otherwise is LARP-ing ☀️
My skin would be fried if I didn’t use sunblock. Anyone that says otherwise is LARP-ing ☀️
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