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

@Marvellousmadness no the dangers were not realised and if you did have sunscream on it was often a low factor and people thought it lasted all day
I was born mid 70's by the mid 90's lot more advice and availability , I remember going on girls holidays at 18 onwards and we did always have plenty sunscreen , would of been 95 ish
I was only burnt really badly once though as we were encouraged to leave t shirt on a lot, drink wise though my mum always took a lot
I remember going on school trips and my mum always gave us about 3 lots of drinks and most just had one carton or um bongo etc

I definitely got pink a few times.80s child.

My mum put suncream on us but it wasnt typical to buy factor 30/50 etc people bought 10 or 15.

I was born in the early 70s and my parents were fastidious about hats, t-shirts and sun cream, even in this country on a sunny day.

I do remember getting badly burnt on a school hiking trip by the coast at about the age of 13 because I didn't cover up, nor have mum close by nagging me to put on some cream. I'm glad they nagged as at the age of 50 I have minimal wrinkles on my face.

We had this in the 70s. I got burnt ears once 😭 and after that was smothered in Uvistat sunblock as soon as the sun came out.

Late 80s baby. We had sun cream on hot days but never everyday. Burned frequently. I burned really badly on holiday in Spain and my entire back went brown. It was the only time in my life I've ever had a tan. I remember it being so painful though and struggling to lie down. After that my dad made us wear t-shirts in the pool but he hadn't thought of it previously. Can't imagine what my mum must have thought when we got home - my parents were divorced.

I do burn really easily/quickly and I have redhead children so must have the redhead gene. I have burned a lot as an adult accidentally before working out what my threshold is, so I kind of get that they probably didn't realise but also

I always thought sunburn was just a temporary thing though, I don't remember knowing that it would do permanent damage and increase risk of skin cancer. Did I just miss this messaging because I was a child or was it not really talked about in the 90s? I have no idea what factor sun cream we used (do remember it being called "sun tan lotion"! )

When I was young peeling skin off was one of the highlights of summer.

I know from family lore that i got my first sun burn in infancy. I honestly can't recall if mum used sun cream on us as children. As a young teen i used to oil my skin and lay out to try to get a tan. Never worked and i don't recall burning. However, as an adult, show me a pic of the sun and I'll show you how red i can get.

The last few summers I've actively tried to keep my legs, and arms the same color as my derriere.

I was a child in the 70s and got burned quite a lot despite my mum trying to protect me. I think factor 15 was the highest cream that was available when I was a child. I'm very pale and it didn't do a lot for me. I remember lots of miserable nights where it felt like my burned skin was sticking to the sheets. I
I remember my much darker skinned older sister coating herself in olive oil to aid tanning at around the same time!

I was thinking about this today- I remember peeling and I remember really painful stinging sunburn! Born early 80s.

Yes we never reapplied it, maybe if we were at the beach and my mum thought it might have worn off due to the sea. We would also keep the same tube for years and years because we used so little it wouldn't run out.

Actually TBH I never reapply now it doesn't seem to matter though, we never get burnt except when we don't use sun cream or if we miss a bit. Reassuring to know that it works I suppose.

As a teenager in the 70's, the usual thinh was to slather yourself in coconut oil to enhance the tan/sunburn.

I was born in 1985 and from what I can remember, my mum was pretty vigilant about sun cream. I used to hate having to stand on the beach having it applied before I was allowed to go and play/paddle.

I went on holiday with my dad in 1996, fell asleep on the beach and burned my back quite badly. My mum was furious with him because he hadn't noticed or reminded me to reapply suncream.

My mum was very aware of sunburn and always made me cover up. We never had suntan lotion though. We went on holiday to Florida in 1979. I wonder if we used it there.

Born 1972, I am very fair, don't tan, and don't do well with the heat. I would get burnt every year, and my mum had to get special permission for me to take a hat and suncream (Boots had a higher factor one in the baby section) to school, but many days out were marred by me fainting/ vomiting from the sun. Probably not helped by the lack of drinks, one tumbler of squash was about it iirc.
I distinctly remember lying in a cool bath crying with sunburn

Never burnt - born 1960s. Mum always slathered me (and herself) in suncream. She said that my skin would be like leather of I spent too much time in the sun.

I also remember a girl in my class (who wasn't the brightest, bless her) coming into school in about 2000 when we were 14/15 with huge blisters all over her back and face. Her parents were Irish and she had fair, freckled skin but had decided to slather herself in baby oil and sit in the sun in an effort to get a sun tan...

I was a child in the 70s. I am pale, my sister and brother both tan. My dad was always scrupulous in making sure I wore suncream and a t shirt in the water the first few days of a holiday by water, so I didn’t burn when with my parents. However, I remember getting terrible sunburn when on holidays with my lovely grandparents. I was in agony and also felt unwell with it. Grandad covered me in calamine lotion.

Strawberry blonde, born 1980. I never burned as a child, though I didn't go abroad until I was 8 or 9 and I don’t remember wearing suncream in the UK. I think I was lucky in that my parents were very savvy about the risks of sunburn and sun damage to fair skin. I remember them slapping on the highest factor sun cream they could get (probably spf 10 or 15) on holiday in Crete in the late 80s.

I don’t tan at all so I’ve never sunbathed, but I have got burned a couple of times as an adult. Ouch. I burn so easily now; spf 50 on my shoulders and I’m going pink in 2 hours. My parents must have been slapping on that factor 10 every half hour.

Yes. Same old bottle of factor 2 or similar from Avon for years... got badly sunburnt several times and several memories of bad sunstroke/heat stroke. This was with mainly rainy UK camping holidays.and fairly tanning skin on my part. (I'm not an easy burner).
Also drinking wasn't a thing. No drinks during school day. Water never. I must have been so dehydrated. No wonder we couldn't concentrate at school.
Parents still the same now. Refuse to sit in the shade. Like to sunbake. Even eating a meal in direct sun. They 'don't like water' as a drink.
I shudder to be honest. Drink litres now and use factor 30 or 50.
Attitudes changed mid 90s. Even before that it was vital to get a 'last day tan' on a package holiday i.e. getting burnt red

My mum tanned like a gypsy but I am pale skinned and red hair. We were the first family in our street to go abroad on holiday in 1961-very adventurous, my parents. We travelled from Glasgow to Spain by bus.
First day we're off to the beach and lay out on the sand for hours. My mother admired another woman's tan. The woman was anointing herself with oil and she gave my mother the bottle to put some on me because I was so pale.
After a while I started complaining about a sore head and sore back and eventually she gave in and took me back to the hotel saying that I ruined everything, even s trip to the beach.
By the middle of the night my skin was on fire and any movement made it stretch and feel worse. And it was crimson, s deep crimson. It wasn' t till it peeled off like strips of wallpaper, three days later, that it felt better.

There was no such thing as sunscreen then. You just wore a shady hat and long sleeved tops no by. To this day I cannot sit out in the sun.

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My mum used to put Nivea on me, out of her little blue tin. I’m ginger. She would have been as well smearing me with the White Cap lard she used in the chip pan.

I don't particularly remember being sunburnt as a child - apart from pink shoulders. Definitely no peeling skin. I did get a burnt back on a school trip abroad in 1985 and had to cover up the rest of the week. I do remember others coming to school burnt and peeling though.

We went on a camping holiday to Wales in 1983 and I can remember having sun cream on then. 1989 and 1990 were hot summers and I'm sure there was a lot in the news about hats and wearing sun cream. I can remember hearing about the "slip, slap, slop" campaign in Australia.

born in 1967, spent most of the 70’s on holiday in spain. no suncream that i can remember ever. my mum
used to put oil on herself and lie in it all day. she never burned though. i hated it, hated being in the sun all day and used to seek out the shade to read a book in. got dragged out into the sun, told to get my nose out of book and put my face in the sun. remember the sting and burning of skin when i got in bath at the end of the day. never really bad burn(not blistered) but always red and sore. until it eventually turned brown. was told that was normal way to get a tan and that a tan was heathy. unhealthy was pale white (my natural colour)