The weather so far has been amazing here. It's so hot and sunny, but not that putrid, sticky, headachey kind of a hot that makes you want to lay on the floor and moan all day. It's cool indoors and toasty in the sun. And cloudless. This means sun protection is key. Even if i wasn't so concerned about me and her getting cancer and burns, I fortunately have Adrian to remind me numerous times a day about it. Like I would risk the wrath of Adrian by giving Ann her first burn. And it's not the sort of thing you can fudge later, like; "No Adrian, we totally had veggies with lunch". If I forget, her lobsterness will telegraph 'I have a bad mother' to the world. Except maybe to Adrian, he's colour blind. We sometimes have to play that fun game of "Is that flashing light yellow or red?" when we drive.
So we have this extremely pricey sunscreen from Whole Foods called 'Badger'. It's very safe, no endocrine-disrupters blah blah (seriously do you know what is in your skin care products? Check out this website: http://www.ewg.org/skindeep/. But be warned, you will waste hours on it and be horrified by what you read. It's very "Soylent Green is made of people! Soylent Green is made of people!!" (Have you seen that movie? Great one). But when you take out all the colour and fragrance out of sunscreen, you are essentially left with clay. And it takes, like, 20 minutes to put it on. It's like rubbing mud on your face. Especially on a snot-faced moving target. Anyways, so obviously I use it on Ann (I'm SUCH a good mother). I'm not going to risk disrupting her endocrine functions and make her uterus develop inside her intestine or something (can you imagine what birth would be like? And what Adrian's wrath would be?), but I figure it's too late for me. My reproductive system is fully formed, Ann is a testament to my overexuberant fertility, and any cancer damage has been done. I may have to go back to using my fragrant, easy-to-apply, moisturizing sunscreen or we'll never make it out of the house again.
I am catching up on your posts--love! Try Cliniderm sunscreen (SPF 45). Get it at Shoppers in the Beauty Boutique. It's totally safe (no nasty chemicals or fragrance), super light and absorbent. Trust me, I've tried them all, and this one is the best.
ReplyDeleteI'm using one called "Alba" (I think) now, and apparently its a 2 on the scale of not-nasty, non-reproductive-time-bomb-inducing sunscreens. Badger is probably a 1, but apparently 2's are pretty darn safe too (so says my hippy-friend Anne at the Feel Good Store). It's also slightly less clay-ey than yours sounds like.
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