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Favorite body sunscreen?

11 years ago

I am tired of sunscreens that feel greasy, sticky or roll up into little balls on my skin. What's your favorite drugstore body sunscreen. I want to use sunscreen every day, but when I end up feeling like a grimy oil slick it's not very comfortable. I'd like to find a spray because that's what my husband prefers, but a lotion would be okay too.

Comments (23)

  • 11 years ago

    Right now I'm using Neutrogena Dry Touch SPF 30 in a tube.
    I do not recommend Coppertone Sport SPF 100 spray. Maybe I'm not applying it correctly, but it puts a weird coat of grease on you.
    And I recently read that SPF numbers over 30 are not really valid.


  • 11 years ago
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    Another Neutrogena Dry Touch cream user here. I use sprays but only on my feet or hard to reach spots when I don't have anyone to put on creams. Neutrogena also makes a spray that isn't greasy, but I do rub them in as recommended.

  • 11 years ago

    Babo Botanicals Zinc Sunscreen. It's clear and easy to apply. We use what our daughter provides for the grandchildren. Works for us.

  • 11 years ago

    Neutrogena Dry Touch. SPF 30.

  • 11 years ago

    I sometimes use Neutrogena on my face, especially when on vacation, but a few years ago I started using Elta sunscreen for daily use which is a physical sunscreen versus a chemical sunscreen. I think I heard about it here actually! It's not a drugstore brand but I get it from Amazon. I use a tinted one on my face in the winter, but I have a pump bottle that I keep in my kitchen - it's great for when my kids are on the run outside and I can quick pump it into my palm and spread all over them. It's not cheap but it works well and a little seems to go a long way. When we go to the beach on vacation though, I like Coppertone Sport (not the spray but in the blue tube). We go,through so much on vacation that I don't use the Elta for that. That one is the least greasy which is nice for the whole body. I don't use it on my face though.

  • 11 years ago

    I like Neutrogena products, and even though I know the lotions/creams are better, I often use spray because it's more convenient, and it doesn't make me itch or break out in a rash like many sunscreens do. I use a Tarte BB with sunscreen on my face.

    I have had three basal cell carcinomas and one squamous cell carcinoma on my back. I am very cautious now, but the damage is already done. I'm very fair and got sunburned many many times when I was younger. Isn't it wild how sunscreen wasn't really available when we were children, and now kids don't step into the sun without it? My son is 10 and has never had a sunburn. I remember my nose & shoulders peeling all summer long.

  • 11 years ago

    DD is a sun lover and has tried many in all price ranges. She just recently said Mary Kaye was her favorite. I know it is a lotion - not sure why she prefers it.

  • 11 years ago

    I used to use Neutrogena, but read the EWG report last year and switched to Alba Botanica.

  • 11 years ago

    Aveeno!

  • 11 years ago

    I am pitching my new Neutrogena and getting some say yes to cucumbers, which seems to be available at target

  • 11 years ago

    Neutrogena.

  • 11 years ago

    Thanks for all the responses. I guess I'm in for a trip to Target!

  • 11 years ago

    Here's what I use every day here in sunny Florida...


  • 11 years ago

    Side trip: the Alba says it's "gluten free". Is gluten absorbed through the skin into the digestive system so is a danger to those allergic to it?

  • 11 years ago
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    On the side trip. I don't know about gluten specifically. Is there a gluten allergy or is it just intolerance? People can definitely have contact reactions to things they are allergic to with no need for it to enter the digestive system. I am allergic to pine and get hives from contact with pine needles--trust me I don't eat them. And I know kids with peanut allergies, which are a food allergy, who have reactions just from peanut butter touching them. One of dd's classmates recently had a rash on his face from a kid at a play area who ate a peanut butter sandwich then touched his face. (This was not at school.).

    Apparently there is an allergy?

  • 11 years ago

    That 'gluten free' thing on some external use only product labels cracks me up! I've seen it on shampoo & body lotion too - SO dumb! But it's still a great sunscreen.

  • 11 years ago

    Where do you buy the alba botanical please?

    Drugstores?


  • 11 years ago

    I use Coppertone Sport SPF 50. It's broad spectrum and stays on. I don't care if it's greasy or makes my skin shiny, it works!

    Sue

  • 11 years ago

    I get it @ our local natural foods supermarket & sometimes Ross & other similar discount stores have it for dollars less. Here's a link to their website - click the store finder link...

    https://www.albabotanica.com/

  • 11 years ago

    Here is a good list of good sunscreens:

    livestrong safest sunscreens


    Also, a longer list from EWG:

    EWG best sunscreens


  • 11 years ago
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    BTW, some of the environmental working group recommended sunscreens are available on amazon. I have purchased both blue lizard and purple prairie there as well others we have tried out. Just in case that helps with finding them.

  • 11 years ago

    I get it the Alba on Amazon. EWG has a whole Amazon store of recommended products. There is a link on their page. My derm gave me a sample of this one last week, tried it today and I love it! Elta MD Sunscreen