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Tips on Shopping for Sunscreen

posted by martyb on Tuesday May 15 2018, @03:31PM   Printer-friendly
from the no-sun-in-my-mom's-basement dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

[...] with bottles and tubes covered with claims, "it's really hard to make sense of what all the terminology means," says Roopal V. Kundu, M.D., an associate professor of dermatology at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, who researches how people buy and use sunscreen.

Here, then, is the help you need: seven common terms and what they actually mean—and don't. The federal government requires sunscreen claims to be "truthful and not misleading." But only three of the main claims consumers see—"SPF," "broad-spectrum," and "water-resistant"—are strictly regulated by the [U.S.] government and therefore have agreed-upon definitions.

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The article goes on to explain those terms as well as "sport," "dermatologist recommended," "natural," "mineral" and "reef safe."

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  • (Score: 2) by Thexalon on Tuesday May 15 2018, @06:22PM (2 children)

    by Thexalon (636) on Tuesday May 15 2018, @06:22PM (#680129)

    Wait, people still use Suns for anything other than doorstops? I thought those went the way of the dodo a long time ago.

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  • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday May 16 2018, @12:34AM

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday May 16 2018, @12:34AM (#680241) Journal

    It is called retrocomputing, ya know?

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  • (Score: 2) by richtopia on Wednesday May 16 2018, @06:23AM

    by richtopia (3160) on Wednesday May 16 2018, @06:23AM (#680302) Homepage Journal

    SPARC is not affected by Meltdown or Spectre.

    Turns out Oracle confirmed that SPARC 9 is indeed affected by Spectre. Security through obscurity?