Cheap is not the case everywhere. In Germany it’s cheap, in the Netherlands it’s much more expensive and in Croatia a bottle is like 25 Euro
But I am mighty!!
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affenlehrer@feddit.org 10 months ago
BlueLineBae@midwest.social 10 months ago
In the US it’s cheap but unregulated and full of shit that’s terrible for you. Or you can pay an arm and a leg for stuff that’s better but still not up to the standards of most other countries. I learned this by getting a chemical burn in my eye from sunscreen… meant for my face.
BorgDrone@feddit.nl 10 months ago
In the US it’s cheap but unregulated
It’s the exact opposite actually.
US sunscreen is way worse than sunscreen in other parts of the world like the EU. It doesn’t block the harmful radiation as well as the sunscreen as well. The reason is that it’s more strictly regulated in the US. IIRC it’s not considered a cosmetic product but instead it’s a medical product.
As such it’s subject to much stricter regulation and requires much more (expensive) testing before being allowed on the market. Due to this it’s considered too expensive to introduce the newer, more advanced sunscreen products in the US so you’re stuck with the older, crappier sunscreen.
WolfmanEightySix@piefed.social 10 months ago
The USA is the Wild West when it comes to safety standards of any product.
affenlehrer@feddit.org 10 months ago
Oh, that’s bad. Made me think of this sunscreen and in Robocop 2.
sCrUM_MASTER@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
I was in Berlin last month and spent €16.50 for a 50ml bottle
Flubo@feddit.org 10 months ago
I guess you went to the wrong shop then. In pharmacies or shops open at crazy hours this might be true. We usually buy all products for Hygiene and beauty in shops we call “Drogerie”. The most common two chains are Rossmann and DM. There you get sun screen for 3-15€ from various Brands.
affenlehrer@feddit.org 10 months ago
Weird. In NRW you can get them at DM for less than 10 Euro.
SARGE@startrek.website 10 months ago
saltesc@lemmy.world 10 months ago
“ball of fire”
Haha, no no. You threw down with a gigantic source of cell destroying radiation. The fire did no harm.
Chrobin@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
There’s no fire in the sun. Fire is some material oxidizing, and that’s not what’s happening (or at least not in relevant amounts). What creates the radiation is nuclear fusion.
saltesc@lemmy.world 10 months ago
xavier666@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Hypothetically speaking, will you get sunburnt if you sit near a fire all day?
krashmo@lemmy.world 10 months ago
The heat could dry out your skin, which, if I’m not mistaken, is essentially what a burn is. However, as the other person noted, a sunburn is damage from radiation, not heat. So I think you could stretch the common definition of a burn to call heat induced dry skin a burn but calling it a sunburn would not be accurate.
twice_hatch@midwest.social 10 months ago
AES_Enjoyer@reddthat.com 10 months ago
Why exactly do you think there is UV radiation coming from the sun?
LH0ezVT@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Because the spectrometer says so, mainly. Why?
NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 10 months ago
The nuclear reactions occurring within the sun emit a wide spectrum of radiation, everything from sub-visible thermal radiation to high energy gamma rays. Thankfully, the Earth’s own electromagnetic field and ozone protects us from all but a tiny sliver of ionizing radiation or we wouldn’t be here to talk about it.
NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 10 months ago
A ball of constant unending nuclear explosion
xorollo@leminal.space 10 months ago
[deleted]MutilationWave@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Sometimes I think I’ve heard all the batshit nonsense. Other days I read something like this.
morphballganon@mtgzone.com 10 months ago
So blind people never get sunburn? Or always get sunburn?
Fridgeratr@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Yeah I’ve seen an upsurge of people claiming sunscreen is toxic poison. Not sure where the fuck they pulled that from
nik9000@programming.dev 10 months ago
webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
Everything that can kill you A to Z.
S is for sunscreen, but also the sun. Both give you cancer, isn’t that fun.
e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
Maybe they read something about the titanium dioxide contained in some sunscreen products. There is some research indicating that its not as safe as we thought and that it might be carcinogenic.
Noite_Etion@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Every English tourist in Australia.
wjrii@lemmy.world 10 months ago
…and Florida, and Jamaica, and Mexico, and (I presume) Spain. There is no corner of the earth in which the English will not challenge the mighty Helios until they are as red as the cross of St. George.
Railcar8095@lemm.ee 10 months ago
*Me in Vitoria, Spain: “You guys get sun?”
Large parts of the north of Spain are basically UK in terms of weather.
Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 10 months ago
Australia is a different beast though. I went out for like 10 minutes without a hat or sunscreen on a particularly hot december noon and my nose damn near fell off the day after 😅 Not because I thought I’m too tough to get sunburnt but if you live your entire life in Europe you just can’t imagine the sunshine being this potent. Never happened again after that incident 😄
alchemist2023@lemmy.world 10 months ago
In New Zealand the sun feels like it’s stabbing you after 10min in summer. I can feel my skin prickling like tiny fire ants.It doesn’t take long to burn here. serious respect for the sun and upper atmosphere
there’s a hole in my ozone dear lyza, dear lyza…
MadPsyentist@lemmy.nz 10 months ago
Its not the ozon hole (well its a little bit the fault of the ozon hole) but its because due to the eleptical orbit of the earth around the sun the southern hemisphere is closer to the sun in summer than the north hemisphere.
synae@lemmy.sdf.org 10 months ago
I’m just stayin inside
Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 10 months ago
Ok Bo Burnham
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
but they’re specifically avoiding burning their hams
reev@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Went out to look for a reason to hide again
merc@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
On the other hand, what bullshit is it that my stupid human body can’t survive being outdoors without medicinal cream. My ancestors would be ashamed.
kerrigan778@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
Your ancestors had melanin production to fit their sun exposure and seldom lived past 40
merc@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Maybe tens of thousands of years ago, but 2000ish years ago 60ish was old age. The main reason life expectancy has gone up isn’t that old people didn’t make it to 50, it’s that young people didn’t make it to 2. If a couple has 5 kids, 3 of them die as toddlers and the other two make it to 70 the average life expectancy is about 30, but that doesn’t mean living past 30 is unusual.
Also, tens of thousands of years ago there was an ice age, but for the last 10k years light-skinned Europeans still had normal summers and worked in the fields.
alekwithak@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Mud and henna masks and other full skin coverings are extremely common among indigenous people and presumably your ancestors as well.
REDACTED@infosec.pub 10 months ago
We also used to have much more hair, shadowing the skin from sun
BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Your ancestors didn’t shave
merc@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
I don’t either, but my nose isn’t hairy and it would burn to a crisp outdoors.
joyjoy@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
Not wearing sunscreen and getting a sunburns is a psyop to get men to buy more aloe vera.
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Which, btw, might feel kind of nice, but you’ll still get skin cancer.
Denjin@lemmings.world 10 months ago
You got to give props to the people who convinced idiots that sunscreen causes cancer.
MutilationWave@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Put that shit in the refrigerator, it’s awesome.
stupidcasey@lemmy.world 10 months ago
as a man I have the primal urge to pick a fight with the giant ball of fire in the sky, I lost this time but one day.
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
Let out in on a little secret…you gotta attack at night.
stupidcasey@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Unfortunately I’ve already committed to it happening one DAY.
yogurtwrong@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It’s actually irritating to me that the sun is bombarding us with ionizing radiation
(I know, not the same intensity) but think about the amount of precautions we take before turning on a UV lamp. Or before turning on a very bright LED which you are not supposed to look directly at. Well, neither you should look directly at the sun, but you get the idea
In a perspective, sun is so radioactive it can even decay paint and plastic! It can literally cook you alive and make your skin fall in pieces. This just seems usual to us because we were born with it, people would freak the hell out if a medical procedure had the same side effects
Bgugi@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It’s actually irritating to me that the sun is bombarding us with ionizing radiation
Yeah, it’s called a sunburn!
MutilationWave@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
I’m sure you could get signatures, similar to that ban dihydrogen monoxide bit.
RedFrank24@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I would wear suncream more often, but:
- I’m allergic to something in most brands of suncream so if I run out I’m having to deal with rashes all over where I used it.
- I hate how it makes me feel slimy after using it
There’s this Loreal suncream spray I like that I can’t seem to find that feels like water and when it’s dry, it doesn’t feel like you have suncream on. It’s perfect for me! I’m not allergic to it either so I can actually go in the sun without turning red and blotchy!
pleasegoaway@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Yeah, and it’s also def NOT cheap.
icelimit@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
that feels like water and when it’s dry,
What does water feel like when it’s dry?
ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
New question for the “water isn’t wet” fools unlocked.
RedFrank24@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Key word being “and”.
grepe@lemmy.world 10 months ago
only one way to find out
burgerpocalyse@lemmy.world 10 months ago
i get burnt with multiple layers of sun lotion
Mac@mander.xyz 10 months ago
If the cream wasn’t such a goddamn sensory nightmare…
UPF clothes FTWKusimulkku@lemm.ee 10 months ago
If you spend 8 hours in the sun, the sunscreen doesn’t seem like it helps entirely.
WhiteOakBayou@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Reapply q2 hours and every time you use a towel. I don’t think most sunscreen is advertising all day Protection.
Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
If you hate the feel of sunscreen like I do, check out UPF clothing 👍
NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 10 months ago
>be me
>white as everliving fuck
>put on sun screen, as you should, and set a timer for an hour and a half to reapply, earlier than the recommended 2 hours
>alarm goes off, reapply
>STILL GET SUNBURNED
mfwrhymeswithduck@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
I used to have that problem. I switched to 30 spf and don’t get burned anymore. I can’t really explain it, but my theory is that 50+ is marketing BS and doesn’t actually do anything. Or it could be that Banana Boat brand just really sucks and Hawaiian is more like lotion so it actually stays on my skin and also moisturizes, which probably helps because dry skin = gonna get burned.
Bongles@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
Get 100 spf, I’ve never even tanned on that shit.
Treczoks@lemmy.world 10 months ago
My excuse is that the weather was predicted as “cloudy” when we left in the morning. When we were on the trip, though, the sun was burning down to extinct humanity instead.
rumschlumpel@feddit.org 10 months ago
But it’s gross :C
(summer sunshine is also gross even without sunburns, though, so I never get sunburns anyway)
jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
My wife can spend all day in the sun and turn a nice shade of brown.
Not me. There is no “tan” for me. It’s either pasty white or lobster with no middle ground whatsoever.
driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 10 months ago
The worst is when is a cloudy Sumner day and you’re like there’s no sun mf, no need to sunscreen! But you still get burned the fuck out.
grrgyle@slrpnk.net 10 months ago
Pour one out for the back of my calves. Every summer I forget.
Hikermick@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I put on sun screen every morning to ward off basal cell skin cancer. It sucks but it’s cheaper than going to the dermatologist to have basal cell skin cancer removed. The worst part is getting it in my eyes. On the plus side, the splotchy age spots on my temples have disappeared
eager_eagle@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I don’t remember it being cheap
Mr_Fish@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Mate. I’m a ginger living in New Zealand. Sunburn is an inevitability.
LordWiggle@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Baking in the sun risks skin cancer. But people like to be tanned, so cancer is worth it for a good look.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 10 months ago
I get a little pink from being outside for like ~20 minutes. That’s not really hubris lol.
cows_are_underrated@feddit.org 10 months ago
And then theres me who does not go outside that often, never uses suncream and doesnt get a sunburn when I decide to go outside for longer times.
nanook@friendica.eskimo.com 10 months ago
mr_satan@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
One day I’ll win, you all will see!
phuntis@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
mate it’s £5-10 for a 200ml bottle I’d hardly call that cheap
LordWiggle@lemmy.world 10 months ago
In the city of Utrecht NL they have free sunblock stations spread around the city. It shows the temp and UV rating. But buying it in store is crazy expensive and often the quality is poor. Some fancy tiny spray bottles go up to 12 euros, only good for 3 to 4 uses. wtf.
GingerGoodness@lemmy.world 10 months ago
As a ginger- the petrol money to go shop in Germany at DM or Rossmann is cheaper than the ginger tax here.
LH0ezVT@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Then don’t buy the fancy spray bottles, but the big one that lasts for a year or three?
rumschlumpel@feddit.org 10 months ago
WTF are those prices. I’d start looking into importing from abroad …
IndiBrony@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Cost of living in the UK is up 25% since Brexit happened in 2021.
“We’ve become the first country in the history of the world to have placed economic sanctions upon itself” -James O’Brien
We’re a population of morons who will still blame anything but ourselves for the position we’re in.
BorgDrone@feddit.nl 10 months ago
Here in the Netherlands it’s expensive as well. Like a small bottle of name-brand sunscreen is €30.
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I buy the store brand from the local supermarket. €2,99 for a 250 ml bottle and it works great. I never get sunburn, even during multi hour bike rides in the blazing sun.
Droggelbecher@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I have autistic sensory issues and the cheapest one I can at all tolerate to have on my skin is 15€ for 50ml. I have so many of the 5-10€ bottles at home and can’t handle any of them. Fml