If it is a concern about chemicals, they could always use a mineral based "natural" sunblock.
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If it is a concern about chemicals, they could always use a mineral based "natural" sunblock.
For myself this is not something I would agree to. We spend approx 3 hours a day outdoors in summer. I have a huge yard with half sun half shade. On very hot days we still go out but play in the kids pools. The pools are always in full sun. I use sunscreen on all kids and I supply in - parents pay me $10 in May for bug spray and sunscreen. I try and limit the bug spray as much as I can (last few years have been terrible so hoping for a better year this year). I ask for hats that cover their ears but for some reason they send ball caps.
I used to have parents supply sunscreen but had so many different kinds - spf 10 to spf 60 - lotions - sprays. I buy what I find easiest with the highest spf I can get.
While I am a firm believer that chemicals are not the answer for everything, I think this statement is also too simplistic....
"I've always felt that the cancer-sun exposure theory was very simplistic. We've been living under the sun for eons yet skin cancer is a relatively new disease. I think some day they will find the cause for cancer and my bet is it won't be directly related to sun exposure. I know supper healthy people who passed from cancer and other super unhealthy people who eat junk and worship the sun who are living into their 80s so how can we say that we really know anything at all!"
Of course people have been exposed to the sun forever. Live expectancy was maybe 40 years if you were lucky. When you died, you were just dead...nobody knew why. We hear more about ALL diseases now. That doesn't mean they are new.
CFRED....I had a Basal Cell removed in March. Good times. Lots of long sleeves, sunscreen and floppy hats at my house!!!
Fun times indeed, Wonderwiper! Did you have to be awake for yours? I was out for 5 hours....the tumour was way bigger than anyone suspected. The only good part was paired up dosage of Hydromorphone and percocet afterward ;) That made looking at my very new frankenstein look bearable....gawd...I really looked like a cyborg at the end. I would recommend that people find a sunscreen they can live with and use it! I wear a minimum of 60spf here in Canada and 110spf in Caribbean. So not worth the surgery or the scars afterward!
If you forgo sunscreen in favour of floppy hats, etc, don't forget to continue those practices on cloudy days too....UV rays are still present on cloudy days. Do what you all want, but the surgery is unpleasant!
Oh...and just for fun....once you've had skin cancer, you're more prone to it. I now have a tumor on my other cheek. My surgery for this one (for which I'll be wide awake...awesome) is next month. Once you get it, you have to keep going in every 6 months to have your skin checked and your likelihood of recurrence is extremely high.
Wide awake!! Much smaller than yours I suspect! Took just under an hour. It's close to my hairline by my temple so shouldn't be super visible when it's no longer red and bright white.
I always use 110...plus floppy hats etc.
Yes, that's much smaller than mine. Mine was huge, though they didn't know till they cut me open. I'm really glad I was at Sunnybrook and had a kick butt plastic surgeon doing it. This next one is teeny (I think) so can be done in the office.
Yep...110 spf....the two whitest gals in Ontario ;)
Wanted to thank everyone for the great info. As it turns out the mom has found a natural/organic sunscreen that she feels comfortable using. I have a well shaded yard but it still would have been quite a challenge to keep her in the shade as the shade moves around the yard. We go out between
the hours of 10:00 & 11:00 in the morning and 3:30 -4:30 in the afternoon. I've been doing the water table and sprinkler in the shade in the morning which hasn't been ultra popular since it's still cool at that time but the parents pick up in the afternoon at varying times so it's inconvenient to have the kids in the water and get picked up right after.
Totally understand the threat of skin cancer, my sister has had it 3 times (basal)and now has a yearly specialist appointment. Sounds like she's been one of the lucky ones. The cancer has never appeared on her face. She went to the tanning beds a lot and said that she would smell the skin burning! That would have scared me off doing it?!
I think as time goes by there's going to be more situations of parents not wanting to use sunscreen because of the chemicals but then I think what this mom has come up with is a good compromise.
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Originally Posted by daycaremom9
Sounds good! Glad she found something to use. I can completely understand the want to skip the sunscreen. BUT I recognize that you cannot just skip it with no thought! There are a lot of 'safer' sun blocks out there but they do cost a fortune! My compromise for now has been to use this site http://www.ewg.org/2015sunscreen/ and find a 'safer' sunscreen. I went with a sunscreen with a lower rating (3 or lower) that is easily available at a decent cost. I ended up using the Banana Boat Natural Reflect Kids 50. Still has some questionable components but it is rated at 3 and is available everywhere.
With the amount that we need to use in each application I couldn't bring myself to spend $35 for a tiny bottle of the creams with the 1 rating (best safety rating). If money was in complete abundance I'd be all for it!