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certain long clothes allows for skipping sunscreen entirely in perpetuity
by erelong 4mo ago
certain long clothes allows for skipping sunscreen entirely in perpetuity
- OptionOfT 4mo agoYour clothes still need to have a certain SPF, and you're not gonna wear gloves when 100 outside are you?
- gibspaulding 4mo agoJust about any shirt is going to have a higher spf/upf than any normal sunscreen. Also who puts sunscreen on their hands?? A long sleeve sunshirt with a hood or better yet a floppy hat is where it’s at. I have a couple of the Colombia PFG ones that I wear for working outside, though I’d like to see if I can find something cotton instead since I’m not a huge fan of synthetic fibers.
- hilariously 4mo agoI put sunscreen on my hands or I will have completely burnt hands. There's many of us who cant have more than about an hour in direct sunlight (and sometimes much less) before redness and soon burning occurs.
- XorNot 4mo agoWhile generally true, it's worth remembering that thin shirts can have an SPF as low as 50 or so, which isn't much.
- hollerith 4mo agoIt means only 2% of the harmful rays (UVA) are getting through the shirt or alternatively the skin under the shirt can spend 50 times as long in the sun as it could without any protection.
- hollerith 4mo agoCorrection: UVB, not UVA. Correction: the standard used for clothing is UPF, not SPF. They're similar, but there are differences.
- kube-system 4mo agoSPF is logarithmic so high numbers can be misleading. The FDA has recently banned labeling above SPF 60 for this reason. Doctors usually recommend 30
- tabletcorry 4mo agoA typical tshirt is closer to SPF 7, depending on color and weight.
- omnimus 4mo agoJust from basic logic this has to be false. Maybe there are some translucent t-shirts that are SPF 7 but my skin always reacts much more to sun exposed parts that have SPF applied than it ever did under t-shirt. And no i use high quality SPF50 and reapply.
- hollerith 4mo agoThat sounds right, but SPF 50 shirts are readily available, and at least the ones made from polyester are cheap.
- borski 4mo agoI put sunscreen on my hands.
- adambatkin 4mo agoPeople who don't enjoy sunburns on their hands put sunscreen on their hands.
- ViscountPenguin 4mo agoNearly everyone I know puts sunscreen on their hands. Here in Australia, the world melanoma capital, sun safety is drilled into you as a kid, to the extent that "no hat no play" used to be official policy in most schools.
- gacgacgac 4mo agoWho puts sunscreen on their hands? People in the sun who want to avoid wrinkles and burns and skin cancer on their hands. If it's exposed skin, it gets sunscreen.
- erelong 4mo agoPretty much this Also for the other comments there are gloves and face masks but I think most people do fine without them unless you're working outside For the nerds here working indoors during the hottest times of the day... they may need more sun than they get really, rather than blocking it with toxic sunscreens (depends on where they live?)
- andrew_lettuce 4mo agoThis isn't realistic for something likeriding your bike where you get lots of sun on your face and limbs.
- milch 4mo agoThe limbs you can deal with, at least. I've done century rides in 100°F+ weather wearing UPF 50 sleeves the whole way... it's actually quite nice because you dip them in water, and they end up staying saturated for a long time. Together with the airflow from the ride it keeps you cool as well as protecting from the sun
- bawolff 4mo agoUnless you are talking about a Burqa, i think that is not true.
- userbinator 4mo agoAlso a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thawb https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thawb While this is commonly brought up as a religious issue, religion obviously predates sunscreen but not sunburn, so it could've originally been a practical reason --- elevated to religious dogma --- why it is customary from that part of the world to wear highly concealing clothing.
- retired 4mo agoStaying behind UV protective glass panes while browsing Hacker News does the same.