19 Things You Don’t Know About Sunscreen

I have a love/hate relationship with sunscreen. I love that it, you know, keeps me from burning and getting skin cancer, but I hate actually applying it. Anyone else agree?

I think in a perfect world we’d be able to go tanning all we want and never get wrinkles or cancer. But, since this world isn’t perfect (sigh), we have to load up on the sunscreen and use self-tanner if we want a safe glow. OK, so it’s really not the biggest tragedy in the world — not even close.

Click here to read 19 facts you never knew about sunscreen.

In order to grow the love and minimize the hate/reality sting of this un-perfect world, I decided to do a little digging on my old pal sunscreen — which led to the discovery of 19 shocking facts that I just had to share with you. Seriously, you’ll be looking at that bottle of Hawaiian Tropic in a whole new light after you read these sunscreen revelations. At least, I’m starting to feel the sunscreen love, and I’m sure you will too. This summer, let’s all make a promise to stay sun-safe — and still get a killer tan via a spray booth or a bottle, cool?

Click here to read 19 facts you never knew about sunscreen.