Sun's Out

A week ago I came across a post from the instagram account Sweet Life And Fitness with a story about a mom whose daughter was suffering from Petit Mal seizures as a result of using a certain brand’s sunscreen. It absolute shook me. For a couple of reasons. One being that we use that brands products. Specifically their hand sanitizer. It was one of those brands I had given the identity as “safe”. So to hear that it might not be really through me for a loop. The other reasons is Jane Taylor has horrible dizzy spells as a result of her alternating torticollis as a baby. Her last dizzy spell was the worst one yet and has me really paying attention to the food we eat and what we are putting on our body. The post was a wake up call that I might need to take a little more time to pay attention to what we are using.

Since it is summer time I thought I would share with you the two brands we use for sunscreen in our household. This is coming from a girl who used to walk out into the Florida sun wearing SPF 8 with bronzer every single day and thought I was '“protecting my skin”. Let me just tell you as I have grown I wear nothing less than 30SPF every single day and my tan still looks just as good, and healthier too.

I get asked a lot what sunscreen I use on the girls. Y’all know a sunburn is no joke and I’m not about to let my little ones innocent skin suffer from that kind of pain. As long as I can grab them quick enough to actually put sunscreen on them before running outside. My favorite tool for quick apply is the Countersun Mineral Sunscreen Stick. It is so much easier to run this little stick over a squirmy baby or busy toddler’s face than trying to rub the sunscreen on them.

For my face I use the Countersun Daily Sheer Defense. It is lightweight, made for your face and I’m happy with the results I have seen from using it.

To protect all over we use a couple different products depending on what we have enough of in our home. We frequent the pool a lot in the summer and for four people sunscreen can run out fast. My first choice is the Countersun Mineral Sunscreen. We also use the Babo Botanicals Sunscreen Lotion and Babo Botanicals Sunscreen Spray. Babo Botanicals is great because it is on Amazon. And I am the mama who needs stuff to get here in two days with free shipping because its the eleventh hour we are about to run out.

Hope this helps when it comes to picking out your sunscreen for the summer!