To use sun cream?

[Esmereldapawpatrol]

A minor celebrity I follow on Insta is currently away on holiday in a sunny destination. As with a lot of influencers they holiday a few times a year. Her and her children always look sun kissed and have a tan. She was doing a AMA yesterday and someone asked what sun cream she uses for her and the kids and she stated that they don't use sun cream. Instead they wear hats, cover up and play in the shade when they feel the kids have had too much sun but the kids have built a resilience. She said it's because of all of the cancer causing ingredients in sun cream, if they have to use sun cream they use a Zinc based one.

I was really shocked by this but she later posted to say how much support she'd had and the story has been shared online and there are lots of comments saying they agree and they don't use sun cream on their kids either.

I was under the impression that it's not just burning that does damage to the skin, it's being unprotected in the sun and the skin can still be damaged without being burnt.

Have I been living under a rock and everyone else thinks sun cream is poisoning us or is this a random theory people are running with?

No, she's an idiot.

You don't "build a resilience" to sunburn.

The influencer is an idiot. A tan is sun damage.

I’d like to see the post
what’s the influencer?

One of the faires? Sisters, they were on the only way is Essex

This means nothing to me!

She’s an idiot, there’s no such thing as building up a tolerance and the sun is more harmful than sun cream.

but the advice of covering up and playing in the shade is probably more sensible than letting kids play in the full sun all day even if they have crap sun cream on.

😂 Sounds like the influencer is completely’away with faries’ saying shit like that.

Yea tell it to the Australians …

Ahhhh Sam faires. She's an idiot.

She is an idiot

https://www.skincancer.org/blog/sunscreen-safety/

see this link which states the cancer link with sun cream is nonsense.

i have also seen these claims on social media but they’re not based on facts!

My default position is to ignore any advice that an influencer gives on the basis that a) they are generally idiots who don't know anything and b) their job is to be paid to say stuff.

It's Samantha Faiers (ex TOWIE). It was on her stories to may have disappeared now but i think it The Mail that had picked the story up.

She has said a few things before that I have felt are a bit off but this I just couldn't believe!

They are based on facts, just very distorted facts. American suncreams are very different to european ones due to how they're classified and restricted. This meant that a few years ago America realised it had a big problem with carcinogens being used in suncream and many had to be recalled. The problem is now resolved, although their suncreams are still less effective than ours, but that's where the reluctance to use it stems from.

I don't tend to follow advice either and do my own research but I read it and thought she would be in for a backlash but I was surprised by those agreeing, it's more that I was surprised at I think.

How do people disregard actual scientific evidence and proof? Baffles me.

Thank you for explaining that.

I can feel the sun burning my skin without cream on, it’s cooking it. She is being really irresponsible. Not just for the cancer risks but also because that’s how you go leathery and wrinkly

Yes I agree that bit is sensible advice and that most parents follow it anyway.

I know it seems contradictory as she has a brand of collagen supplements to keep skin looking youthful.....

Actually, there is some truth that going out in the very early morning sunshine does trigger protective qualities in the skin. However , suncream or not, it is important to try to stay in the shade during the hottest hours of the day. I mostly always use suncream on my child although don’t like the feeling of it on my skin myself. I don’t sunbathe and am in and out of it. But I do think some degree of sunshine is important for natural vitamin D levels esp in children.

My father and his siblings grew up on a farm, outside alot, in the 60s/70s and never wore sunscreen. 3/5 of them got skin cancer in their 50s (all treated thankfully). So yeah she's an idiot. Why do people think because someone is famous they know anything about parenting/ health care?!

It’s a trend at the minute, by lots of instagram types to say it causes cancer.
i had skin cancer last year, got treated by an incredible dr who is involved in all sorts of research for skin cancer. He tells me to wear spf, as does every skin cancer charity and dermatologists etc, who spend their lives researching this stuff, over some random towie star who needs a tinfoil hat. it helps prevent cancer, not cause it.

Isn’t she the person that stole an idea from a small crafter and tried to pass it off as her own?

Listening to any influencer is the way of madness, anyway. I have no idea why they’ve somehow become leading voices of authority in so many areas. Bonkers.

Spouting horseshit about sun cream and building resilience is about what I’d expect.

We don't use sunscreen most of the time in our house but not because it causes cancer (it doesn't!) but because of sensory issues. This means long sleeves, hats & shade are our go to generally. We manage ok in the UK and me and the DD are still white and pasty by end of August. When we go abroad we try to continue with the shade and clothes options but carry the nasty goopy cream in case. If we want to go to the beach for the day or somewhere there is no shade then we put up with the horror and apply the cream.

She is right that one can mitigate the need for suncream with a good avoidance routine but totally wrong that suncream gives cancer or that it is safe to somehow brown yourself off like a sausage every summer so you burn more slowly!