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[...] 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 MichaelDavidCrawford on Tuesday May 15 2018, @08:54PM
I once spent an entire day sledding down a snow-covered slope wearing nothing but pairs of shorts and shoes.
My friend said "This is the most fun anyone could ever have".
We were backpacking in the High Sierras.
By the time we hiked out to civilization, all three of us were sunburned on most of our bodies. Even in high school my hair was thinning; my burn formed a blister under my entire scalp. Eventually the outer layer of my outer scalp's skin came off in one chunk.
Here's the difference between professionals and amateurs:
I would gladly do it again.
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