Ultrasun Question/Advice

[RICKY S]

Booked a week away in Gran Canaria.

Which of these do you think would be the best for me?
I'm very pale, don't tan, don't really like the sun & don't want to spend a fortune on Sun creams.

http://www.qvcuk.com/ukqic/qvcapp.aspx/view.2/app.detail/params.item.200836.cm_scid.ItemNumberSearch

or

http://www.qvcuk.com/ukqic/qvcapp.aspx/view.2/app.detail/params.item.200050.cm_scid.ItemNumberSearch

Thank You

 

[bags]

We usually pick up the glimmer 20 and the sport gel 20 which is usually on offer at Manchester Duty Free.
Maybe worth giving your airport a call to see what's on offer, better keep with the 150ml / 200ml sizes or you'll not have enough for a full body.

 

[iloveshopping]

I am very fair. Best way is to keep out of the sun and still slap on the sun protection. I use factor 30 and make sure that my face, chest, neck and hands have it on. Also your feet. I wear a long skirt and a long sleeved t shirt. Beware of thinking that the umbrella over the sun lounger is keeping the sun off you - sometimes they are old and the sun gets through. Beware of reflected sun whilst swimming as well even if wearing a t shirt.
Spent a week in Tunisia last August with temperatures of 44C and I am proud to say I returned home without a sun tan!
I burnt myself very badly whilst swimming on a cloudy day in Madagascar about 10 years ago.

 

[Flamenco]

I had blood tests done by my consultant at the hospital to test my levels of Vitamin D, because lack of it can exacerbate autoimmune disease (I have such a disease). As it turns out, I am deficient and am being prescribed a 2 week Vitamin D course of tablets (My GP says Vit D tablets in the health food shops etc are useless) from the hospital pharmacy. Sunshine is the source for the body to synthesize your own Vitamin D and our obsession with Factor 50 sunblocks and avoiding the sun at all costs actually isn't good for your body trying to make enough Vitamin D. The advice I am given is to not burn (which causes sun damage and melanoma) nor get exposed during the hottest hours of the day but it is important to get sunlight exposure. I think Factor 20 is fine. I use Riemanns. I tried Ultrasun, but found it kept rolling off my skin and I burnt with it.

 

[rainbowdottie]

I have Roscea and wear ultrasun every day.It really suits my skin type.

However I would not use it abroad.

I used it last Aug in Tenerife and my face was quite burnt,as I believed the one day hype.

IMO its good for our weather.....but not hotter climates.

You may as well just go to boots and get your stuff there.Cheap,cheerful and keep applying.

 

[happy35]

If you are really fair then I dont think Ultrasun is for you, bought it for partner who is very fair and he got burnt and I had bought an spf50 and spf30

I now buy a product called Techniblock for him, you buy it off a website called something like Easy Sunspray, this is excellent is an SPF40 and he doesnt get burnt even in Turkey during August

I hope I am allowed to say this about another product, I dont work for them just purchase it

 

[lynnonthelake]

Sorry Flamenco I meant to thank for your post,slip of the finger.
Lynn

 

[Flamenco]

Sorry Flamenco I meant to thank for your post,slip of the finger.
Lynn

No worries lynnonthelake!

 

[Jabbathehut]

The Hutts LOVE it, and use it for their twice yearly jaunts to sunny Florida