Will sunblock prevent you from becoming more tan?

Question

With a spf of 15?

Gothic sunblock, it has an spf of 666!

Answer 1

I admit, the gothic sunblock made me laugh!

You need a higher SPF if you really want it to do anything.

Oh, and yeah...I havent been avoiding you! & your not boring. Hmm, maybe catch you on messenger this weekend or something?

Answer 2

SPF 15 is not good enough for the summer sun. But it's better than nothing.

What the SPF does is prevent UBV and UVA rays from penetrating the skin. These are the rays that cause cancer and they reach deep into the bottom layers of your skin. They are the ones that do damage too. Later in years you will get tons of freckles and age spots and wrinkles and that is all the damage from the bottom layers coming to the surface. They have actual lights or something they can put your skin under now so you can see the "real" damage the sun has caused so far.

So it will not prevent you from getting a tan, just the BURN. People think because they don't burn they don't tan, but you do. That burn turned brown may look like a fast tan but it's not. In fact each burn your get increases your chances of SKIN CANCER tremendously. I mean huge stats whatever they are, and melanoma is the number one cancer that hits young people today.

But lotion has a short life too, you need to repeat the application every hour or so, and more often if you are in and out of the water.

I generally go by if the sun is stinging your skin it's burning!

Answer 3

Not at all. In fact, it might not even prevent you from burning. Consumer Reports, a nonprofit product testing company, recommends, "Choose a sunscreen with maximum protection against both UVA and UVB rays - preferably one labeled very water resistant or waterproof, with an SPF of at least 30." Medical studies agree, and recommend you re-apply it at least every two hours, even more if you're in water or sweaty. Even this won't stop you from tanning. It will only make it more gradual.

Exposure to radiation for the sun is damaging your skin every second you're outside between dawn and dusk. It's the reason why old people have age spots on their skin, and half the reason for wrinkles. You can't completely block yourself. You need sunlight to reach your skin for at least fifteen minutes a day for proper vitamin D synthesis. The most reasonable thing to do is to use sunscreen during the most prolonged and most exposed times, when you're most likely to burn, which increases your risk of skin cancer.

Nothing short of shade will keep you from tanning. Using sunscreen only reduces the time it takes you to get cumulative sun damage, including wrinkles, age spots, and cancer.

Answer 4

Lol on the Gothic skin tan spt!
Sun block will give you a "real" tan, that takes a bit longer to
achieve. Without it, your skin burns, and while healing from the burn the damaged skin usually peels. Sometimes the burn is so bad that it blisters. Sun block allows, the skin the time, to naturally bring more pigment to the surface, without
as much skin damage.

Answer 5

SPF 15 doesn't really even protect you from burns. Use at least 30 if you don't want skin cancer.

Answer 6

spf 15 will hardly protect u from the sun. you will get tan but be careful the sun's rays are dangerous and more and more people are getting skin cancer

Answer 7

like the 666 joke.

prolly not...unless you use like 3in of it!

Think about this, i usualy use spf 30, and most summers i'm still really tan. this year was diff. b/c i didnt really go out.

Answer 8

No you will still get tan just not burnt the higher the number the less tan you will get because it blocks the radation

Answer 9

sun block keeps all sun off of you. sun screen keeps the burning rays off your skin and you can still tan, but it is all bad for your skin (the sun I mean) I just had to have skin cancer removed from my skin from years of spending time at the beach.

Answer 10

No, it shouldn't affect your tan at all. Sunscreen just prevents your skin from getting too red and burnt.

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