Top 10 reasons for not wearing sunscreen: What’s your excuse?
Wearing hats and sunscreen is the best way to keep your skin from incurring too much sun damage while you’re having fun outside. If you don’t wear sunscreen—and no hat either?!—perhaps now would be a good time to start. Below are the top 10 excuses people have given me for not wearing sun protection. It makes my skin feel greasy. It burns. It doesn’t work. I just sweat it off. I want to get color. Skin cancer doesn’t run in my family. I never burn, so why use it? It’s too much trouble. I forgot to put it on. Wearing sunscreen makes my face feel hot. Let me address these concerns: 1.) If wearing sunscreen makes your face feel greasy , you could simply be wearing the wrong product. There are more and more sunscreens available that are made with ingredients that will keep a matte finish vs. causing an oil slick. If you indeed have an oilier skin type, I recommend wearing sunscreen during the day as your day cream. There is no need to pile a sun product on top o...