Don’t forget that sunscreen.

[panamaguy]

True but from my readings there are things like safer shampoos and soaps. Must most just buy off the shelves and have no clue about it going into the body. Not getting sunburnt is a big one. But i have been a nudist from age 10 and 71 now and sunscreen has never touched my body. And i wouldbet i get more sun than most here in Panama

 

[Tinhack]

I don't know when sunscreen was invented, but it seems like life expectancy would have a larger impact on skin cancer.
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United States: life expectancy 1860-2020| Statista

Over the past 160 years, life expectancy (from birth) in the United States has risen from 39.4 years in 1860, to 78.9 years in 2020.

www.statista.com

I hope the chart keeps moving ahead of me. I might make it to 90 yet.
If that chart is by year of birth, I already beat that.

 

[RB5]

Hats and long sleeves!

Arab robes are the real answer.
They ain't no dummies over there when it comes to sunshine.

I'm not wearing a robe to work in the garden or round up cows... just sayin. SPF50 sport spray on has become my friend. I remember when anything over SPF3 was rare. I started using SPF30 on my fair skin when I worked at a cosmetics company in the 90s. Maybe it saved my skin to some extent? Was good stuff, and I got it at 15% of retail. I stocked up when I left. I've had a few things frozen and one melanoma removed. Nothing in the last 10+ years since I switched to SPF50. I used to fish all the time, 50 to 100 plus days a year. It adds up.

 

[ning]

Hats and long sleeves!

Arab robes are the real answer.
They ain't no dummies over there when it comes to sunshine.

I often wear a cloth keffiyeh/shemagh style with a bit of a roll which provides an eye-shading brim. Covers the back of the neck and soaks up a lot of sweat and is surprisingly cool, and easily converts to provide a breathing mask though I don't wear it like that much.
I don't have a jillaba any more - I think that got tossed when we came back to USA from our time in Morocco. Wouldn't fit me anyways... I was 6 then. I stick with carhartt dungarees and cotton shirts for sun work for the most part.

 

[CalG]

I'm not wearing a robe to work in the garden or round up cows... just sayin. SPF50 sport spray on has become my friend. I remember when anything over SPF3 was rare. I started using SPF30 on my fair skin when I worked at a cosmetics company in the 90s. Maybe it saved my skin to some extent? Was good stuff, and I got it at 15% of retail. I stocked up when I left. I've had a few things frozen and one melanoma removed. Nothing in the last 10+ years since I switched to SPF50. I used to fish all the time, 50 to 100 plus days a year. It adds up.

Fishing can be a hazard to your health!

There is something in the water!

;-)

 

[Williy]

Whit all the hoey about sunscreen I thenk they spend too much
time in the fruit section.

For 2 years stationed in Corpus Christi, TX I layed on the roof of
our cold storage plant from 12 to 1 pm I never got cancer but I
did get very dark

willy