[Slacky]

Who uses it and if so, all year round, just the summer?

[Spruce]

Who uses it and if so, all year round, just the summer?

Just in the summer.

Rightly or wrongly, our bodies need vitamin D all year round. It's usually only our faces and hands (unless you wear gloves) which aren't covered up in winter, so these are the only receptors left to capture that needed vitamin.

[Slacky]

I hadn’t thought about the vitamin D element. I presume you’re saying sun screen blocks that out if we use it?

[Jonny Swirljet]

I use City Block by Clinique, have done since 1988. It protects against cold weather on your skin as well as the sun. It's great if your a runner as it blocks exhaust fumes.

[Spruce]

I hadn’t thought about the vitamin D element. I presume you’re saying sun screen blocks that out if we use it?

I haven't a 100% answer one way or the other to that question. It would appear that some say it does, others say it doesn't, and then the middle ground says that it does but some vitamin D still gets through. The next question to those who take the middle ground is how much vitamin D do we need a day, and are we getting enough if we use a sunblock.

Sunscreen/block promoters will point to the benefits of using a sunblock to reduce the probability of getting skin cancer. I agree with that benefit 100%. If it also caused a reduction of vitamin D then that problem is easily solved by taking a good vitamin supplement that contains vitamin D.

Is coffee good for us or bad for us?  It depends on who you are talking to. Same with sunblock I believe. If you are a supplier then you would increase sales of sunblock by promoting its use all year round rather than just using it in the summer months.

For me, I put sunscreen on in summer as my wife nags me to. In winter, she doesn't so I don't bother. On occasion, she will say I caught the sun that day in winter as my face was sunburnt, but I don't get a lecture about skin cancer like I get in summer. 

[Bungle]

I wear red lipstick all year round. Saves getting chapped lips   

[Smudger]

My doctor has told me that I need to wear factor 35 in winter and factor 50 in summer - apparently its a kidney issue ... 

Darran

[Martin Lane]

Had skin cancer twice got told by Doctor if its warm enough to work in a t-shirt you should be putting sun cream on  even if the sun is not out
Martin

[Rob.Hall]

Good call Martin.

[Stoots]

Hardly ever wear it.

Surely our bodys are designed to be exposed to sunlight.

wearing suncream in winter, never, i cant stand the sticky stuff.

Probably only think about wearing it above 25 degrees.

[dazmond]

Factor 30 on hot sunny days,none in winter....

Polarised sunglasses all year round because my futures so bright!😎

[NBwcs]

Had skin cancer twice got told by Doctor if its warm enough to work in a t-shirt you should be putting sun cream on  even if the sun is not out
Martin

Local windy I know had skin cancer scare on his torso and was advised to put suncream on under his T shirt in summer as T shirt alone won't stop all uv. Im fairly good about creaming up in summer but always get caught out early in the year when we have a sunny day but not necessarily a warm one, I'll go home with a glow on and get a rollocking from the Mrs.

[dazmond]

Had skin cancer twice got told by Doctor if its warm enough to work in a t-shirt you should be putting sun cream on  even if the sun is not out
Martin

Local windy I know had skin cancer scare on his torso and was advised to put suncream on under his T shirt in summer as T shirt alone won't stop all uv. Im fairly good about creaming up in summer but always get caught out early in the year when we have a sunny day but not necessarily a warm one, I'll go home with a glow on and get a rollocking from the Mrs.

Your missus tells you off for coming home from work with a bit of tan?

[NBwcs]

Had skin cancer twice got told by Doctor if its warm enough to work in a t-shirt you should be putting sun cream on  even if the sun is not out
Martin

Local windy I know had skin cancer scare on his torso and was advised to put suncream on under his T shirt in summer as T shirt alone won't stop all uv. Im fairly good about creaming up in summer but always get caught out early in the year when we have a sunny day but not necessarily a warm one, I'll go home with a glow on and get a rollocking from the Mrs.

Your missus tells you off for coming home from work with a bit of tan?

I've had to have  a couple of moles on my face looked at but got the all clear but it does make you think and the Mrs keeps me on the ball as a result. Now we rarely use ladders, the sun has to be one of top "risks" associated with the job.

[Rob.Hall]

Had spot removed from forehead.
Amazing how much was cut out.
Now have no frown lines. 
Got one on my back which has to be checked and kept an eye on.
Ones you think are suspect often are OK. It's the little ones that change slowly that you need to keep an eye on.

[Spotfree]

I had cancer removed last year, it didnt hurt as much as the biopsy they did on my leg.

Was advised to take two weeks off, couldnt do that though and it wouls have bben expensive if I did, that should be a deterent in itself.

I use copius amounts of suncream in the summer, factor 50. I use organic to try to limit the amount of chemicals leaching into my system and screwing me over.

One customer who luved in Australia said they use zinc cream out there, I will look inot this soon as its starting to get hotish some days. I also have a factor 25 t-shirt, found it online.

I'll look for a long sleeved one this year and try it out, I wont be able to handle it if it sticlks my arms and impedes my range of motion though, we,ll see. I now wear a burkha hat as it keeps the heat off my neck as-well as my head, face and ears.

I believe this stuff ( skin cancer ) can show up years later, I have some on my head and lip that'll need cutting away sooner or later.  I think sun cream or some form of protection is very wise, even wiser if you research which type to use

Better safe than sorry.

[G Griffin]

Good thread.
Not wearing it can cause cancer. That cancer can spread throughout your body.
I'm fairly dark but still use it and always try to remember to put a hat on. I don't wear shorts so I try and protect my arms and mush.
Melanoma is deadly.

[andycap]

Excellent topic guys,making me re-assess my routine going to work👏🏻

[ray l]

Someone posted on here a few years ago that having visited a demonologist for separate issue , he was advised to use sunscreen every day as an outdoor occupation,
If the sun is out at all i wear factor 50, so about 10 days so far this year.
 

[dazmond]

My doctor told me to always cover up in the sun and never wear t shirts or shorts due to my high level of moles/freckles....that was around 20 years ago....

Feck that!I do wear factor 30 sun cream in summer but that's it...