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Tip my Hat to Sun Tips!

Posted by Allykat on April 19th, 2008

It’s getting warmer out! Springtime is here and summer is near.

Time to have fun in the sun! Baseball games, Amusement Parks, The Beach, Picnic at the Park, The Lake, Vacationing around, and just walking outside on a beautiful sunny summer day.

It’s also time to get out your hats! The sun rays intensify in the summer and the days are longer. Plus hats are just too darn cute! I love all the new fashionable hats out there! And if you think that hats don’t look good on you, well think again, because there really is a hat out there for everyone!

Also I think it takes awhile to get use to seeing yourself in a hat. Many schools ban you from wearing hats, so that may be one reason why we are not use to wearing them. And when we first put them on, we of course laugh and think we look silly. Well, try it anyway. I dare ya! Hats are really cute, even on you!

There are these really cool hats too, with SPF built right into the hat! Make sure to look for the tag that says UPF50! If it doesn’t say UPF50, than it really won’t protect you that much. UPF stands for Ultraviolet Protection Factor, which is similar to SPF, it’s just what is used for clothing.

Also make sure the brim is at least 4 inches in order to cover most of your face!

Hats also protect your hair from the sun. All you ladies out there that color your hair, hats are your hair’s best friend. Sun fades color, so keep your hair protected from the sun!
Remember to still wear sunscreen and sunglasses, the sun can reflect up from the sidewalk!

Have fun this Springtime/Summer!

Go Padres!

Check out these cool sites with UPF sun hats:

San Diego Hat Company

Coolibar

Shady Lady Products

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The Secret to Picking Out the Right Sunscreen!

Posted by Allykat on March 22nd, 2008

Sunscreen ingredients! It’s the most important part of buying sunscreen! Please read them! Your skin will thank you! And once you figure it out, it will only take you a second!

Now there are Chemical and Physical sunscreens. You have to pick the one that your skin likes the best! Generally the Chemical sunscreens do have higher UVA protection! Remember UVA 8 is good and 19 is great! Well Physical sunscreens only go up to about 8.

On with the fun part.

Many Chemical sunscreens contain:
Avobenzone, Homosalate, Octisalate, Octocrylene, and Oxybenzone.
Now if the sunscreen contains Avobenzone, make sure that it does NOT contain Octinoxate! It will destablize the suncreen causing it to degrade faster in the sunlight, meaning less protection for your skin! Think of it like octiNOxate!

Many Physical sunscreens contain:
Titanium Dioxide and Zinc Oxide

Make sure that they have both ingredients!

Also look for high percentages of these active ingredients. The higher they are and the certain combination of the ingredients means a higher UVA protection number!

So a chemical sunscreen with Avobenzone 3%, Homosalate 13%, Octisalates 5%, Octocrylene 2%, Oxybenzone 4% has a very good UVA protection of around 11-13. (by the way it’s Coppertone Water Babies spf 50)

So just look for other sunscreens with about these percentages in it and you got yourself a great sunscreen!

There’s also a website that will calculate all the ingredients in any sunscreen and give a estimation of the UVA number! It is usually off by a number or two, but that’s better than nothing!

https://www.ciba.com/ind-pc-uv-sss.htm

Go ahead check it out!

Oh, also once a sunscreen has been opened it will only last for about a year! So all those sunscreens you had in your cabinet since last summer, toss them!

(Money saving tip: Check out your Big Lots store, they have great deals ($2.50 for Ocean Potions and $3.50 for Hawaiian Tropics Baby Faces SPF50) on sunscreens right now!)

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Sunscreen, Does Yours Protect You from UVA Rays?

Posted by Allykat on March 21st, 2008

Hi all:) Back to sunscreen we go!

So I have used that Neutrogena Dry-Touch sunscreen with the cool Helioplex ingredient and I really liked it! It didn’t break me out and it has a pretty nice finish, even though it felt thick to put it on at first. Unfortunately, it balls up on me. So then I tried out the Hawaiian Tropics oil free SPF 30 sunscreen and it work pretty good, but it was 8 UVA and I thought I needed higher. I was getting a little obsessed…so I tried more different kinds the Banana Boat Sunwear SPF50 one with the UVA12 and it did not do well for my acne either….and so I tried others, such as ones from Drug Stores, Department Stores, and Europe.


I also tried Shiseido, which has a very nice fluid one, this sunscreen is the best for oily skin it actually made my skin matte for a few hours! And believe me my skin gets really oily in a half an hour after I am done with my makeup! However, this sunscreen did leave a slight white cast on my face, which is fine for those of you with porcelain or Scarlett Johansson skin. Also it is $50! And yes, you should spend the $50 if it is right for your skin, sunscreen is the number one item to invest in! And it is hard to find a sunscreen that your skin tolerates and one that you will happily put on everyday!

So finally I went back to the Hawaiian Tropics. My skin tolerates this sunscreen, I don’t break out! And UVA 8 is good protection, way better than what I was using years ago which was like no UVA protection at all, only SPF protection! Plus it’s pretty light and does well on my oily skin!

So yes, oily, acne skinned gals can wear a sunscreen everyday!! And I wear it even when it is raining and when I am at home, because I have lots of windows and you never know when I have to run to the store or get the mail. But it is up to you if you want to wear it at home. Not everybody does.

Don’t forget you neck and chest area and hands! Hands, always put it on when you have to commute home and what not!

Remember you have to put on the full ¼ teaspoon to your face and ¼ teaspoon to your neck! If you don’t put on the full amount you will only get half of the UVB/UVA protection!!! So this is very important!

So please experiment a little to find the sunscreen for you! It has helped balance out my skin tone and my acne pigmentation marks are fading, due to sunscreen and some other skin care products!

Sunscreen is the most important thing you can do for your skin to prevent aging, especially premature aging! You should start everyday when you are a baby! So don’t forget to put it on your cute babies, Moms. But if you are all grown up, then it is never to late to start preventing future damage! Go buy that sunscreen right now, even if there is cats and dogs pouring outside or a foot of snow blocking your driveway!

(On my next post, I will post the ingredients and their percentages that you should look for to get the right kind of UVA protection for you!)

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