70's -80's children how many remember getting sunburn.

[Sunflowerkeep]

I barely remember them putting suncream on me always dark, sometimes burnt i certain areas and parents are like ahh you got a nice tan even when I was clearly burnt and must have had sun stroke as remember feeling bit chilly in 35c yeah really. Loads of my friends remember the same from that generation. Weird hey. I've got olive skin but my brother I remember burnt to a crisp one year. Poor thing

There was sunscreen. But the SPF was often in single digits. I recall the advice was to use it when you went abroad, use a “higher” factor (8, say) for a couple of days, then go down to, say, factor 4, then you’d be fine and could move on to the sunning oil (sold next to the sunscreen) to help build up your tan.

Even in the 70s, I recall people wanting to avoid burning because it made your tan look bad for a while. They just weren’t that worried about skin cancer until the (lateish?) 80s.

Yep, burnt every year- I'm a pale freckly redhead. My mum also burnt badly on a lot of holidays, she never really seemed to learn that a day on a beach or by a pool in full sun would always end up the same way.Though suncream really wasn't a thing then, and a tan was seen as a good thing (despite the fact that I would never ever look tanned, just pink or peely). Thankfully we only holidayed in the uk, I'd probably have combusted abroad!

I am fanatical about my DC having sunscreen, hats and drinks, pleased to say they have never burnt.

Vivid memories of us, as a family of three, going to Spain for a beach holiday for ten days, and sharing maybe two bottles of sun lotion between us. That was deemed enough! And yes to the two bottles in one, with a small section of SPF 15, and a larger section of SPF 8. And we also had an SPF 4 for when we’d built up some colour.

My mum would go on the sun bed at the hairdressers in the weeks leading up to the holiday to prepare her skin and maximise whatever tan she’d be able to get.

Madness.

People would judge whether you’d had a nice time on your holiday by how tanned you were coming home!

God yes! No suntan lotion - probably a waste of money in my dad's eyes! Painful sunburn in Newquay circa 1974.

Got Skin cancer when I was mid 40s - caught it in time tho. Having said that I was a prolific sun bed user in the 80s - didn't know any better. Bloody do now tho!

@waterlego - no I don’t burn much as I use factor 50 and re-apply. In the 80’s growing up we never had any suncream at home, only ever for overseas and my mum used to buy factor 4 & 8, I remember us buying factor 15 in Greece age 14, but before then I don’t think they sold much factor 50. My parents weren’t as vigilant at putting suncream on like parents now. I got 3rd degree burns in USA age 11, my parents said I wouldn’t come for suncream on. I had huge blisters and the pain was horrific. I do worry about that, and the fact I burnt a lot.

so to answer I don’t get as burnt now as suncream messaging has improved as has high factor suncream