When did daily sunscreen become a mainstream thing?

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I'm 45 and have been using spf on my face every day since I was in my late teens / early 20's. I think that when I was in my earlier teens the info about sunscreen and skin ageing just wasn't as known and that very few moisturisers or foundations actually contained any sunscreen at all and not many would have put (sun tan lotion) on their face in winter! In fact I remember when most sunscreens seemed to be spf 6 and my parents using tanning oil in the 80's. Perhaps people from different countries where it is sunnier had different attitudes to spf but in the UK I don't think anyone was really wearing it daily until the early 2000's where they?

I recall being an outlier amongst my peers for caring about spf when I was in my 20's in the early 2000's and that people even thought the spf 15 I was wearing in winter then was excessive, never mind the daily spf 30 - 50 I was wearing daily by the mid 2000's. Even at that point when spf was more commonly found in make up and moisturiser it was and spf 15 and mostly you weren't applying that in a thick enough layer for it to be effective.

Am I wrong now in thinking that most people are wearing spf 30 - 50 on their face and exposed skin everyday even in winter? When did you first start to take notice of how important sunscreen was for your skin? Do you where it regularly and think it has made a difference to the quality of your skin as you have aged?

Sunscreens don't block vitamin D production. This is easily to Google.

I'm an Australian with MS with usually low vitamin D levels and I've worn sunscreen for 40 years. (My low Vit D is not linked to the sunscreen use, though). My skin is great, too.

I’ve always worn factor 50 on my face daily since about 2004 (ish). I inherited my dads pale freckled Irish skin type. My little brother and mum have the golden olive skin and never burn and don’t use sunscreen so I don’t really have a comparison as to what my skin might look like otherwise- but my dad did have some nasty looking moles on his frequently burnt bald head before he died ( not of cancer, soemthing else). It’s such a small thing to do I think it’s probably worth it (for vanity and for health)

I use Altruist. It's on Amazon and incredibly good value. Perfect for sensitive skin. I've used the factor 50 daily since getting a rare skin cancer on my face and having been left with a huge scar.

I take a vitamin D supplement.

Try pai
www.paiskincare.com/products/sensitive-sunscreen-spf-30

So I remember thinking about that when I was younger looking at my aunts and taking into account their different life styles, those who smoked, those who went on a lot of sunny holidays (sun beds were less of a thing before the 90s I think) and I do remember thinking that at 50 there wasn't a huge difference but by the mid 50's the difference was really showing. I think sun damage shows up earlier but smoking damage seems to really hit mid 50's (post menopause).

I know one woman a couple of years younger than me went to sunbeds a few times a week and loves a sun worshiping holiday, so she is 43 and could easily pass for 63 and I am not joking, she doesn't care she just loves the sunshine.