whydoicare67 wrote: ↑Thu Sep 05, 2019 9:38 amSunscreen has been around since the 30's, but even considering it wasn't called SPF until the 80s, that is still over 30 years ago, so not impossible.missymoocher123 wrote: ↑Thu Sep 05, 2019 2:46 amHmm not sure. I’m 57 and remember my mother dragging me out of the sea on holiday slathering me with sunscreen or something that “stopped you burning” That would be in the early to mid 70’s.Goodstuff88 wrote:Exaggerating a bit, right? Look, it's nice that your mom looks great, but if she's 54 now it's impossible that she used SPF for 30 years. SPF only became a thing in mid 80's, it was quite new invention and people including scientists were not familiar with the negative effects of the sun such as aging) In the 90's as well - even Hollywood stars were tanning back than. These decades are considered dark ages when it comes to sun protection.Pleiadian Starseed wrote: ↑Wed Sep 04, 2019 8:48 am^ I agree my Mum is 54 and she looks much much younger than Tanya and she hasn't had any work done, no fillers or botox. She has led a healthy lifestyle, no drinking no smoking and most importantly she has worn SPF for the last 30 yrs plus she eats properly and isn't a skeleton. Tanya just looks like a 55 yr old who had sat in the sun all her life with no protection, smoked, drank heavily, who doesn't eat properly, spent her life standing on the scales and who now has had work done and is trying to look and act younger!
Yes, it was first invented in 1938 with the equivalent of spf 2. Later in the 80's the equivalent of commonly used sunscreen was around spf 6-15 and only covering UVB filters, UVA filters are still considered pretty new. UVB filters do almost nothing for anti aging, though they prevent burning, the UVA is what makes your skin age.