GREEN GIRL
BLOCKS THE
BURNING SUN!
By Lily Be’hold-Bond
Let’s get one thing straight right off the bat. I am very pale. I’m Many contain micro-sized and nano-scale UVA filters
the kind of person that is white all year long, gets a sunburn, with toxic properties, and some contain ingredients that
and then immediately turns white again. Well, I guess I should absorb into the blood and may have toxic effects, acting
say gets sunburns, plural. Because I burn very, very easily. as hormone disruptors, releasing free radicals into the
Even with sunscreen! “It’s sad.” skin, and causing allergic reactions.
Perhaps it wasn’t the best idea for me to get a job The Cosmetics Database gives detailed information about
working outside eight hours a day, five days a week all which sun blocks are safe and effective and which are
summer. After three weeks, my arms have gone from not. The sunscreen that has worked for me is Alba
bright red, to a hint darker than my normal pale, to Botanical’s SUN, and it is paraben-free.
bright red again, to a little bit darker than the previous
pale with a highly attractive peel. The rest of me is still
If you still can’t stop that sunburn, treat it with aloe vera
practically albino.
gel, but none of that nasty blue aloe! Instead, try Lily of
the Desert’s Aloe Vera Gelly, which is 99 percent aloe and
And when I’m not working, I’m trying to relax. Which free of artificial color and fragrance. Believe me, it feels
this past weekend, when the temperature was 100 beyond amazing on a sunburn.
degrees, meant sitting outside on my porch in the sun,
reading and drinking iced tea. Sounds like the life, right?
Note to self: Sunburns are no fun. Use sunscreen.
Well, it was wonderful. But, no matter how much
Effective sunscreen. And chemical-free sunscreen.
sunscreen I put on, I always seem to miss small parts,
which immediately turn into bad sunburns.
I’ve been putting on 15 SPF, so this weekend I went out
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