Preventative Skincare?

[rayoflight]

Btw, I always found Australian UVA standard odd, they require a sunscreen to protect from 90% of rays in the 320-360 nm range which means UVA-II only, while EU regulations require same from a bit more - 370 nm, all the critical wavelength equations. Aus standard also says nothing about how good is the UVA protection, kinda like the UVA seal, it just says it conforms to the law, is why PPD I find a slighty more informative system. Anyway is still insufficient given the insidious nature of UVA-I, but still better than nothing.

 

[The_Ida]

Then it's different in Denmark, altho I dunno why you guys decided to forgo EU recommendations on that one.
So does that mean that if I were to buy a sunscreen in Denmark there would be no PPD rating, no stars no UVA seal on it? Just the SPF and that's it? Is this all not legally binding in any way in Denmark?

http://www.cosmeticsdesign-europe.c...-tightens-labelling-regulation-for-sunscreens

What can I say, we forego most EU regulations and recommendations It just says UVA/UVB on the front of the bottle (as it always has), no ratings. But it's been ages since I bought sunscreen in Denmark, I order from France, so there's the whole UVA rating system going on.

 

[silk skin paws]

Products containing light to moderate acids such as lactic and glycolic acid are great for cell renewal.

 

[rayoflight]

What can I say, we forego most EU regulations and recommendations It just says UVA/UVB on the front of the bottle (as it always has), no ratings. But it's been ages since I bought sunscreen in Denmark, I order from France, so there's the whole UVA rating system going on.

Must be frustrating. I get that feeling when I get USA sunscreens, they didn't have any real regulations either until currently and I only bother because USA market has wide selection of zinc oxide sunscreens, which are a rarity in EU due to yet *another* set of regulations.

 

[fritze]

this sunscreen thing is confusing!

 

[The_Ida]

Must be frustrating. I get that feeling when I get USA sunscreens, they didn't have any real regulations either until currently and I only bother because USA market has wide selection of zinc oxide sunscreens, which are a rarity in EU due to yet *another* set of regulations.

Not really. We have our own regulations, so I know what I'm buying. Faktor in DK has always meant both UVA and UVB protection, so that's nice. I've noticed that some Danish brands are starting to state UVA/UVB on the front, but no rating system is on the packaging

I fear zinc oxide. It usually looks horrible in photos.

 

[rayoflight]

Titanium is my nemesis. Washed out ghost face or weird blue tint with certain TiO2 containing sunscreens and some make up stuff. Flash photos - impossible. Makes sense considering Ti has way higher refractive index compared to zinc.
Zinc tends to change my coloring to weird though, depending on it's transparency, but not as much as TiO2 does, so I bear with it. 1 micron ZnO sunscreens turn my warm coloring into something unhealthy looking, takes a bit to counteract that. Bronzers help a lot. No corpse look on flash photos so far though, I think it comes down to particle size/geometry, the bigger they are the worse it gets.