We are coming to the end of our large bottle of sunscreen which has been good apart from sand sticks to it!! Even after it has been on for a couple of hours the kids come home absolutely covered in sand which has stuck to it, even by wiping it you can't get it off, it needs to be washed off in the bath or shower. There is no escape from the sand as we live opposite the beach and the local playground and the one at the daycare they go to are on sand. We have been using sunsense which is great as it only needs to be applied every 4 hours which is good when 3 kids need covering in it before leaving the house! It is also water resistant. Has anyone used anything that sand will not be attracted to??

We use Auscreen, available from Big W. We have been here nearly 5 years and the kids have never burnt once. Once applied it is not the least bit sticky.

Hamilton Suncreens are excellent but anything that you use I should imagine will attract a certain amount of sand.

I apply Hamilton half an hour before I cycle home - its thick and white and my arms look really white! But I never catch the sun so I think its good and my skin specialist recommends it highly.

We use Banana Boat Kids Powder-Dri 30+ and the sand definitely doesn't stick ! I was well impressed, it's great; although we could do with a bottle which holds four times the amount as a 175ml bottle lasts about a day in this house!

I get Facot 50 sent over from the Uk for the baby!

UK Factor 50 is exactly the same as Australian Factor 30. Only difference being that the Australian Government don't allow manufacturers to state a higher number than 30.

Yep we use this and the orange topped sports version - don't know the difference as same factor so perhaps the kiddies one is safer for all skin types? Leaves a great dry feeling to skin, nearly like talc only I don't normally like that either!

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My Sister has a business that imports sunscreen and cosmetics from the States and has massive problems with the categories.

I have a bottle of factor 15 that is really factor 30 but they have some kind of problem with it over here

SPF ratings on UK/EU sunscreens cannot be compared directly with SPF ratings of Australian/NZ sunscreens.

Not sure what that means, but it appears to be a different system

The more important thing to consider is this:
Therefore someone using an SPF 50, may feel they can stay in the sun longer than with an SPF30. But it just isn't safe to risk it, at least in Australia.

No idea about the sand issue, but on all other counts I can recommend Coles own brand Sunscreen (orange and white pack) ....and I really dislike the feel of Sunscreen.

Jan

Its on offer in Safeway/Woolworths this week, 500ml size.

Good to get one recomended by someone like the cancer council, we changed from a good one to another brand sold in Coles that was also factor 30 and went under the banner of being natural and free of chemicals and suffered the worst burns we had had in years, thakfully we were not out for too long and it was slightly overcast.

Not sure how a chemical free one would work. Unfortunately it seems the only way to really protect yourself is to bung the chemicals on the skin which isn't ideal but not heard of any natural products protecting enough.

It is quite appaling that it was sold in Coles as factor 30, my wife who is always very careful about avoiding sunburn had the worst sunburn of her life, and we were not even out for very long. I put less on and had fewwer burns woith the places i didn't put it being only slightly red. I complained to Coles. Anyway, you live and learn..

Zinc is not classed as a chemical sunscreen, and the invisible Zinc sunblocks are apparently very good.