What did you use for sunscreen as a child??

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What did you use for sunscreen as a child??

_{Started by Teaching Tiny Tots , author of Teaching Tiny Tots Blog —} _{7/27/2012 8:14:31 AM}

Growing up in Hawaii the beach was a frequent visit and I remember when I was young my mom put on Coppertone. But when I was a teenager trying to get a tan...many of us used Hawaiian Tropic pure oil...yikes! I can still imagine that coconut smell.

I think I may have even used Baby oil...

This was before the awareness of what sun damage could do.

I even looked up Hawaiian Tropic and they still sell the Dark Tanning Oil 0 spf!

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Reply by OneMommy

_{author of There's Just One Mommy... - There's Just One Mommy...} _{7/27/2012 1:54:31 PM}

Oh, I remember using baby oil on top of the sun lotion.... Wouldn't dream of it now, though!

We used Coppertone sometimes and one that didn't get adverstised... Ad-free? No, wait, I think it was called No-Ad. Something like that.

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Reply by Teaching Tiny Tots

_{author of Teaching Tiny Tots Blog —} _{7/30/2012 7:17:53 AM}

I think many people used baby oil!!

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OneMommy said ...
Oh, I remember using baby oil on top of the sun lotion.... Wouldn't dream of it now, though!

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Reply by Cortney

_{author of The Mommyhood Project} _{7/30/2012 10:07:15 AM}

We always had the Coppertone kid's stuff - with fair Scandinavian skin, it was a must if I didn't want to burn!

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Reply by Alicia

_{author of Get paid online, Writing Jobs, Pay per article, Work at home} _{7/30/2012 1:24:44 PM}

I never remember using anything even though we probably should but my kids do wear sunscreen today.

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Reply by Diana

_{8/8/2012 5:19:28 PM}

I know I used to use baby oil!! So crazy. I do remember the Coppertone but I don't think it was as much of an issue as it is these days. I guess we learn from our mistakes :)

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Reply by Teaching Tiny Tots

_{author of Teaching Tiny Tots Blog —} _{8/9/2012 1:42:23 PM}

I think that the deterioration of the ozone probably has a lot to do with why it's so important now to use sunscreen;

http://www.skincancer.org/prevention/uva-and-uvb/ozone-and-uv-where-are-we-now

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Diana said ...
I know I used to use baby oil!! So crazy. I do remember the Coppertone but I don't think it was as much of an issue as it is these days. I guess we learn from our mistakes :)

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