8:00 a.m. on June 23, 2011 (EDT)
Alicia
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11:31 a.m. on June 24, 2011 (EDT)
Callahan
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8:10 p.m. on June 24, 2011 (EDT)
Stepping onto soap box:
Hmmm. What do you want to bet the price of sunscreen goes up? Sounds like the usual over/under government regulation. You may state that your product remains effective for 40 or 80 minutes based on a "standard test." You can not state that it lasts longer than 2 hours w/o reapplication unless you submit data. Does that mean I can claim 2 hours and nobody is going to check?
My solution:
First thing is to educate the market about sunscreens. Make sure they know you can't get instant protection from chemical sunscreens. Educate them on how to apply and more importantly how much. Heck the sunscreen ads could demonstrate it. Explain what SPF really means.
Side rant: Zinc type sunscreens are instant. They physically block the light like clothing. Wouldn't sunblock be the correct name for it? Does it really matter? You need to have some sun to make enough vitamin D. Has anybody here gotten burnt if they applied sunscreen just as they went out to the pool? :End side rant
Make sure that there is some kind of realistic standard for testing how water/sweat resistant it is, how long it lasts between applications and that it is broad spectrum. The chief executive idiots of any company that falsely (knowingly or unknowingly) labels their product will be taken to some southern state and left out in the sun for two days (one for each side) without sunscreen. Creative use of duct tape to "write" various phrases on them will be allowed. Victims will then be allowed to rip off the tape and pat their backs in sympathy. It doesn't matter if the time was off by 5 minutes and wouldn't really cause harm. This would make sure that they put a nice safety margin in those times.
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