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Ideal_Rock
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OK so when I went to Costa Rica I had my trusty Neutrogena SPF 70 Dry Touch sunblock, thinking I was totally fine. I *have* learned to apply sunblock properly over the years- liberally! repeatedly! reapply if you wipe off! etc. Indeed, I didn't burn. But I did tan like crazy through it- I'm really annoyed and way, way darker than I like to be. Yay, freckles and sun damage
. I even freckled the crud out of my left foot, which had never had freckles before! Kept trying to wash them off for a week
Oh and I make my own mineral makeup powder foundation, and I didn't tan through *that*- it's primary ingredients are a physical sunblock, titanium dioxide & zinc oxide, with Z-Cote zinc added, which is a zinc that is so finely milled that it's a great SPF booster, almost totally translucent but very good sunblock. (And now my face is about five shades lighter than the rest of me, which just compounds the awesome
) So apparently the physical sunblock worked better than the chemical kind.
Anyway. Anybody got any sublock recommendations? (I have no clue why I tanned this time, and last time I went to CR barely at all, with the same brand of sunblock same SPF, fresh tube both times.) Bad luck? Just can't block 100% of the sun or something? Do people who live in sunny places just... tan no matter what? Maybe some sunblock that uses a physical block like zinc/tite white, or something?
And even before I'd left for CR I'd tanned some here in Seattle, through the same block (I wear it anytime I have my arms exposed in the summer). Maybe that tube was bad or something. Can that happen I wonder...?


Oh and I make my own mineral makeup powder foundation, and I didn't tan through *that*- it's primary ingredients are a physical sunblock, titanium dioxide & zinc oxide, with Z-Cote zinc added, which is a zinc that is so finely milled that it's a great SPF booster, almost totally translucent but very good sunblock. (And now my face is about five shades lighter than the rest of me, which just compounds the awesome
Anyway. Anybody got any sublock recommendations? (I have no clue why I tanned this time, and last time I went to CR barely at all, with the same brand of sunblock same SPF, fresh tube both times.) Bad luck? Just can't block 100% of the sun or something? Do people who live in sunny places just... tan no matter what? Maybe some sunblock that uses a physical block like zinc/tite white, or something?
And even before I'd left for CR I'd tanned some here in Seattle, through the same block (I wear it anytime I have my arms exposed in the summer). Maybe that tube was bad or something. Can that happen I wonder...?