When did you start wearing spf / sunscreen daily?

[gablir77]

Just wondering about what age you all made a commitment to daily sunscreen, if you ever did summer and winter, indoors and outdoors. What kind of sunscreen do you use daily and do you think it has made a difference to the age you started to see lines and wrinkles?

I only wear it between April and October . I started about 20 years ago.
I'm early fifties, relatively wrinkle free until I grin.

I've yet find one that I really like as my combination skin still gets rather oily in the t-zone and the only sunscreens I've found that don't make me a worse grease ball are the Japanese/Korean ones. But I don't really know how much they can be trusted, plus I have concerns about ordering from a reliable source. I can't read Japanese or Korean and have no idea about expiry dates on the tube.

Just realised I've assumed the post was about facial sunscreen, which applies to my response above including neck and chest.
For the rest of my body I only wear it when it's a particularly sunny day or I'm going to be outside or driving a lot that day.

On my face, spf 30 365 days a year. Even Christmas Day! It's just a habit since I was about 20.

I do look years younger but also attribute it to not smoking. Probably 50/50 between the two.

I started to notice I was looking fresher than my mates about 5 years ago. Now, at 40, the difference is quite marked.

I've never done the back of my hands though & regret it now as they're starting to look older than my face! I'm trying to really concentrate on slathering them daily from now on.

When I hit 30. I did sun worship a lot before then, lived in hot countries and loved a tan.

Now I wear factor 50 daily in summer, and in winter too if I know I'll be outside a lot, otherwise I don't set foot outside without some sort of SPF.

Weirdly I'm not so bothered about my children. Probably should be. I like them to have a tan

special I don't sag luckily yet...

My mum honestly she has the most excellent bone structure, had oily skin when younger and now... easily 10-15 years younger if not more despite being a sun worshipper (but she always moisturised her face and used SPF on it).

My nana (her mum) similar story perfect skin, white did tan but always used protection and mostly kept her face out of the sun (lots of hats and scarves) - at 80/90 excellent skin and she'd smoked and drank a fair bit too...!

Having said that they both 'watched their weight' and also ate healthily which I think helps a lot but as far as I know nothing more than Nivea or Ponds was/is used, no surgery and rarely facials. Genes do help but don't absolve you of everything if you want to live a hard life etc.

ooh anna my nana always used to tell me to do my hands (spf?) and neck but if I moisturise on neck I tend to get spots so what do I use there then?!

I started at 21 varying between SPF 15-30. I'm 32 now, I'm doing pretty well on the wrinkle front but I also don't smoke and people my age who I think look older than me are smokers

I suppose you're really only asking those who do but I don't and never have done. Now and then a moisturiser might have said it was also sun protection, but by accident not design for me. (and I don't even use moisturiser every day)

I am 47, very few wrinkles and not freckly.

But I don't like the sun so don't tend to go out in it much, have mid length hair which seems to cover me and wear a hat for dog walking. Though I did get a burnt forehead and nose in New York in May.

Having said all that my new factor 30 is in the post from Amazon as I think I need to start using it. I always feel a bit claggy with it on so I hope it's OK.