How do you keep from getting sunburned in service?

[Tbs77]

Lol 70 degree weather is nothing. I’m from Texas. It gets much hotter here. I used to own my own landscaping business and I’ve worked for two different car detailing companies, so I’ve spent many years in the sun for over 8 hours a day without wearing a hat or long sleeves. Never been sun burned. I’ve never heard of anyone with my compexion being sun burned. I’m not saying it can’t happen. Just never heard of it.

My skin never peeled/burn in my life until I got in that Carlsbad sun ... The water hitting my back while showering made me wonder "what that's weird stinging feeling on my back?" I lived in Texas and never burned. I live in the desert and never burned... Oh by the I'm dark skinned!

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[Cushi]

2 minutes ago, Tbs77 said:

My skin never peeled/burn in my life until I got in that Carlsbad sun ... The water hitting my back while showering made me wonder "what that's weird stinging feeling on my back?" I lived in Texas and never burned. I live in the desert and never burned... Oh by the I'm dark skinned!

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Wow never heard of that happening to any dark skinned person. That must be rare.

[Tbs77]

Wow never heard of that happening to any dark skinned person. That must be rare.

Don't think there's any ozone layer left in Carlsbad.. 🤣... Prove me right and go to the beach there for 30 minutes...

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[Tortuga]

1 hour ago, Tbs77 said:

Have you been to the beach in Carlsbad, California in the summer, with 70 degree weather? That sun does not discriminate!

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Yes. Did you go to Legoland?

😁

[Hope]

2 hours ago, Brother Jack said:

Wow never heard of that happening to any dark skinned person. That must be rare.

Not too rare... I've known many dark brown people to get burned in the sun. Especially on cruise vacations to the Caribbean. Blisters, peeling... 😕

 

Sunscreen, people 

[Tbs77]

Yes. Did you go to Legoland?

Nope, No Legoland

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[boodles]

Isn't there beach camping somewhere near Carslbad? That would be where I got my first bad sunburn, as a kid. Now I only go to the beach in the evenings, after five, when the sun is getting low.

[Cushi]

10 hours ago, Hope said:

Not too rare... I've known many dark brown people to get burned in the sun. Especially on cruise vacations to the Caribbean. Blisters, peeling... 😕

 

Sunscreen, people 

Well, I would never wear sunscreen. I personally don’t put anything on my skin that I can’t eat. If I can’t eat it, I don’t put it on. For example, I haven’t worn lotion in over 10 years. I made this decision because when you put on lotion, it doesn’t just disappear. It is absorbed through the skin and within seconds it’s in your blood stream, your heart and brain. True, only a fraction of it enters your blood stream... but that’s still too much. I reason that if eating lotion is harmful, then putting it in your blood stream must be harmful as well. I stopped having problems with dry skin after I stopped wearing lotion. For a little while I was wearing virgin coconut oil but don’t need it anymore.

This is why I would never wear sunscreen. That stuff has chemicals in it and for all we know it can cause cancer... 

Edited August 23, 2018 by Brother Jack

[Hope]

*... we know who has the crusty feet... 😉 

 

 

j/k... whatever works for you, brother!  ❤️ 

[Omoyeme]

1 hour ago, Brother Jack said:

Well, I would never wear sunscreen. I personally don’t put anything on my skin that I can’t eat. If I can’t eat it, I don’t put it on. For example, I haven’t worn lotion in over 10 years. I made this decision because when you put on lotion, it doesn’t just disappear. It is absorbed through the skin and within seconds it’s in your blood stream, your heart and brain. True, only a fraction of it enters your blood stream... but that’s still too much. I reason that if eating lotion is harmful, then putting it in your blood stream must be harmful as well. I stopped having problems with dry skin after I stopped wearing lotion. For a little while I was wearing virgin coconut oil but don’t need it anymore.

This is why I would never wear sunscreen. That stuff has chemicals in it and for all we know it can cause cancer... 

 

Brother Jack, I echo and appreciate your post.  I've never used sunscreen nor has my family.  Melanin has been tried, tested and found true in the hot West and East African sun and Rio de Janeiro..lol.  I spent a whole month in Kenya (and in the ministry) as well as several combined months in Nigeria, Ghana and Cote d'Ivoire.  My skin would darken but never burned.

 

Sweating?!  Well that's a whole different subject!