Can anyone tell me where I can find factor 50 suncream?

I have looked in Kmart, pharmacy, Wollies/Coles and can't find higher than 30+.

Can anyone tell me the difference betwen 30 and 30+?

I have really fair skin and will burn with any less. I also use it on the kids.

30+ is all they are allowed to have written on the sunscreen. Slip slop slap.

Yep thats the max they can put apparently - it just means that it is a higher protection than 30

I buy an Australian made 50+ Sunscreen here in Dubai. It should be available from your pharmacy where they sell Ego products, if not ask them to order in for you, it's usually next to the Ego Sun Sense Toddler Milk. It's called Sun Sense Daily Face.

They're not allowed to state more than 30 in Australia because it's very very difficult to prove and they don't want people to become complacent about their sunscreen ie 'I've put Factor 50 on so I won't get burnt'. The most you can get here is 30+. If you want a 'higher' factor you have to go with a heavy zinc and look like a glowing white claggy thing. However you wouldn't get burnt

I do recall something to that affect, but this one I get here is an Australian Made one, so it's probably the same stuff, just allowed to put 50+ for the export market. It's the small tube of ego in the white and tan tube.

Can you order it online?

I have two I brought with me - one is La Roche Posay for my face (as prescribed by a dermatologist) and the other Banana Boat SPF50 for Babies. Isn't BB an Aussie brand?

Wouldn't bank on it Aussie shampoo and conditioner is sold in the UK and not here. Dingo land is a funny place sometimes

Yeah, crap isn't it? Can't get decent sunscreen like you can in the UK.

What if sun screen is what causes skin cancer?

Funny you should say that; I found this earlier while looking for Banana Boat's origins. http://nano.foe.org.au/node/291

What's a nano, Doctor Burb?

Funnily enough there was an article in the West Australian this wek on all the horrors of sunscreen additives - especially PABA which is banned in some countries but not here!

Remember to get 10 minutes of full sun with no block every day or you will get vitamin D deficiency - an increasing problem here as people avoid sunburn too much!

Basically decide now which way you want to go!

My very blonde relatives used the huge pump action 'target tub' of 30 + all over Xmas and didnt burn a little bit.. You will be all good!!

Yeah, I could get burnt by a full moon and Target 30+ ALWAYS prevents me from getting burnt.

Banana Boat Powder Dri is my sunscreen of choice, it dies down to a talcy finish so doens't leave you feeling all gross and greasy. I'm very fair and haven't been burnt using it yet. If they don't have it in Oz then I'm not moving...



No really, every other sunscreen breaks me out!

Tx