Protecting the Face/Skin

[liberty]

Wow. I didn't know I should be rotating the sun protection. What a great thread. I am learning tons. So, sun mentor extraordinaire KnottedYet, how many products do you use and how often do you rotate? Very interested in your review of the new products you mentioned.

[KnottedYet]

Here's my review, and MP's review of Neutrogena's Helioplex. http://forums.teamestrogen.com/showthread.php?t=14764

I have about 3 different brands of sunscreen at any one time, and just use whatever is handy. So they sort of randomly rotate until they either expire or go empty.

I'm not very organized.

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

So they sort of randomly rotate until they either expire or go empty.

Yes that's another point we should all remember...these products DO expire!
I used to be rather clueless and casual about sunscreens and the idea of them expiring never even occured to me- they'd just sit in the shelf and I never looked at their dates. One day I put one on that I'd had in the cupboard for a couple of years and I noticed a NASTY chemical smell from it. I looked at the exp. date and it was expired by 2 years. Now I am much more diligent about getting RID of sun products once they expire. I check the dates in the stores too, because I have often seen expired ones still for sale in stores. I usually point it out to the manager, and hopefully they then pull them.

[Thorn]

Oohh, one more thing on the rotation...don't mix suncreens on your skin, rotate by days. I didn't realize this. I was looking for other information and found an article that said that with some of the chemicals and physical blocks don't interact well, lessening the effectiveness. So reapply according to instructions, but reapply the same stuff until you shower.