[...] 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."
(Score: 2) by edIII on Tuesday May 15 2018, @07:52PM
That doesn't work for people that cannot tan. I'm apparently so white, that I'm practically fluorescent. The sun has *never* given me a tan. Only sunburns.
I was literally designed for cave dwelling, and only emerging at night to feed :)
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.