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Wesley Powell
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 Posted - 11/13/2007 : 1:40:15 PM
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I am very fortunate to live in a part of the country that is wide open, where free hiking and skinny dipping opportunities are all within a half hours drive of my home. I absolutely love the outdoors but the problem is I'm a fair skinned person always seeking shade. After reading studies about the dangers of sunscreens, I try to avoid them unless it will be prolonged exposure.
Are there other redhead or fair skinned naturists? What's your approach or secret?
Wesley
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Cheri
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Posted - 11/13/2007 : 7:28:54 PM
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I ALWAYS stay in the shade and wear a 35 or 50 sunscreen and try to remember to wear a large brimmed hat. I just turned 60 and have not had any problems using the sunscreen.
Cheri
Doing what I can to positively promote nudism
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Cookie
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Posted - 11/13/2007 : 8:34:10 PM
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Mrs. Cookie and I enjoy the sun, but we also make sure there are trees in the general area.
Thank god in our back yard we are many, many, many trees, so we have lots of shade.
When we go to our fav. apot in Conn.(Solair)we have our fav. spot we we get the early morning sun, but yet as the sun moves, we are covered by the trees in the hot sun in the afternoon.
Always make sure we have sun screen applied, and when we go to the Islands, we are def. greased down since the sun is so much stronger.
Please bring the warm weather!!!!!!!
Remember, we are for a short time, so let's have a good time.
Cookie
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jim19452
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Posted - 11/14/2007 : 08:37:48 AM
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Wesley,
I try to limit sun exposure to earlish and latish hours of daylight. I usually wear a hat with a wide brim. I too have read some negatives about sunblocks but I do apply them, particularly on my neck and shoulders. I enjoy hiking but usually do so on shaded pathways.
Best Wishes, Jim
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Ricki00
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Posted - 01/15/2010 : 9:57:47 PM
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quote:
Originally posted by Wesley Powell
I am very fortunate to live in a part of the country that is wide open, where free hiking and skinny dipping opportunities are all within a half hours drive of my home. I absolutely love the outdoors but the problem is I'm a fair skinned person always seeking shade. After reading studies about the dangers of sunscreens, I try to avoid them unless it will be prolonged exposure.
Are there other redhead or fair skinned naturists? What's your approach or secret?
Wesley
Glad to finally have found someone who knows the dangers of using sunscreen!
I don't wear any sunscreen and haven't for 14yrs.Instead I took it slowly since I do as well have fair skin and the first time I stayed in the sun for 5 minutes sunbathing then I added another 5 minutes a week after, the 3rd week came I added another 5 minutes and so on till I ended up being hours out in the blazing hot summer sun, and my skin got used to it that I don't get really bad sunburns.
Just thought of reviving this old topic based on sunscreen.
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Warmskin
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Posted - 01/15/2010 : 11:55:23 PM
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quote:
Originally posted by Wesley Powell
I am very fortunate to live in a part of the country that is wide open, where free hiking and skinny dipping opportunities are all within a half hours drive of my home. I absolutely love the outdoors but the problem is I'm a fair skinned person always seeking shade. After reading studies about the dangers of sunscreens, I try to avoid them unless it will be prolonged exposure.Are there other redhead or fair skinned naturists? What's your approach or secret? Wesley
I see you live in downtown Detroit, Wes. Just kidding, but downtown Detroit is wide open country, you have to admit. 
To the point, in the summer, many supermarkets carry small umbrellas that you can easily take with you to a beach or other place where you can thrust the umbrella into the ground. An SP factor of 30 is common with these umbrellas. No chemical problems with these things.
"If tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy."
James Madison
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FlCpl4NewdFun
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Posted - 01/16/2010 : 08:59:54 AM
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Yes, sunscreen is VERY dangerous, particularly on a sunny day when it's kept in its tube and not on your skin. Quite dangerous indeed!
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Diger
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Posted - 01/16/2010 : 2:45:01 PM
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FlCpl,
They may be referring to the studies that, sunscreens are very effective blocking the good rays that your body uses to produce it's vitamin D (that prevents skin cancer)and not so effective in blocking the damaging rays (that cause skin cancer).
Diger
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ßeachcomber
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Posted - 01/17/2010 : 1:56:29 PM
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My wife is fair skinned with blond hair and used to burn quite badly when she was younger.
She's now realised that if she starts a tan in the early spring when the sun is still low in the sky and builds on it every day - she can still be out in the sun in mid summer without burning. Simply because her skin has developed a good supply of melanin and has built up its own defences without the use of chemicals.
I think the rise in skin cancer is due to the fact that most of us spend 50 weeks a year cooped up in offices - then spend 14 days basting on a beach! Your skin can't cope with that sort of treatment
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Diger
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Posted - 01/17/2010 : 4:49:10 PM
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Exactly Beachcomber, you have to build up slowly. Everyone trys to get that dark tan in just a week and they wonder why they burn.
People are inside all the time even ride in cars with the AC on and the good rays from the sun are blocked by the glass but the bad rays make it through.
Doctors are telling people now that they need 10 to 15 minutes of unprotected sun each day and the least they wear, or the most skin exposed the better.
Sounds like a good plan to me.
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soonbnude
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Posted - 01/17/2010 : 8:25:34 PM
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I am fair skinned, as is my wife, our kids even more so. We camp, go to the beach and love the outdoors and the sun here is Australia can be fierce. We take precautions by wearing hats, trying to stay out of the sun in the middle / harshest time of the day (11am-3pm is recommended in Oz), use sunscreen despite the concerns raised AND try to build up slowly.
I am the only nudist in the family (at the moment) and even when at the beach I am careful with the timing, always take a hat and try to find some shade where possible. I always use sunscreen and while those first hot days of spring or summer can cause some burning if I'm not careful the gradual approach does work for me.
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NaturistDoc
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Posted - 01/17/2010 : 8:46:56 PM
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A couple of points. First, you get all the vitamin D you need with only 15 minutes or so of sun exposure per day. Second, I stand by what I've written in the "Sunscreens 101" Topic over the past few years. The much-maligned avobenzone is now available in a stabilized form which holds up better and has a much lower potential for generating free radicals. Third, I looked over a number of the "Dangers of Sunscreens" websites, and found many of them packed with misinformation and wild extrapolation. People can and do put ANYTHING on a website and appear to back it up with authoritative evidence, but they don't have to answer to anyone if the information is inaccurate. I'm no great fan of pharmaceutical or cosmetic companies, nor of the FDA. However ... the supposed horrors of sunscreens (carcinogens, estrogen mimics) that one might infer from some isolated lab studies have simply failed to materialize in the real world, despite very widespread use. Modern sunscreens aren't perfect (what is?), but they're pretty darned good, and have a better safety record than unprotected sun exposure. Shade is still the best sunscreen, but for the millions of folks who want to spend time in the sun instead of avoiding it, sunscreens make a great deal of sense.
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77777
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Posted - 01/19/2010 : 03:58:51 AM
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I have blond hair with fair skin, and burn rather easily. I had a basal cell carcinoma (skin cancer) surgically removed from the base of my neck 6 years ago, so I'm especially careful about excessive sun exposure. I try to minimize my sun exposure between 10:00 AM and 2:00 PM, especially since I live in the tropics and have lived in the sunbelt most of my adult life. Like many fair skinned people, it's hard to get a tan, so short, frequent tanning sessions are better and safer than extended periods in the sun, even with sunscreen. At nudist clubs, I'll often stay in the shade on a lounge chair and only venture into the sun to go swimming or for short periods in the sun during the midday periods.
Unfortunately, it's hard to get complete coverage with sunscreen, especially when traveling alone, so short stays in the sun and staying in the shade a lot is what works best for me.
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JackNeilson
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Posted - 02/17/2010 : 10:45:07 PM
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I live in Southern Ontario Canada and plan to visit a local landed club in June. The weather here begins to get nice with some very warm days in May or sometimes late April. I have a secluded area in my yard and plan to gradually use it for tanning, building up slowly to avoid sunburn. Hopefully I will be well tanned by the time I go to the camp.
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