here comes the sun (Nivea Sun Tan Cream)

Member Name: sugarlily83

Product:	Nivea Sun Tan Cream
Date:	09/06/02 (474 review reads)
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Advantages: Smell, Price, Quality

Disadvantages: none

Remember back in May we had that hot spell? I do! I got absolutely toasted! Phew! So the first thing I did once I'd stopped writhing in burning agony was to nip down the shops and buy some lotion.

We always used to get Hawaiian Tropic, and I love the coconutty smell, but the ole' student budget just won't stretch that far, so I nipped into Wilkos to have a look there. They had 200ml bottles of Nivea Sun Mosturising Sun Lotion priced at £6.99. Bargainous. But I looked closer... reduced to £2 plus I'd get a free camera film! Wow! As you can imagine, I bought it.

The wording on the blue bottle told me it protected against sunburn and premature skin ageing, which sounds great to me, and I plumped for factir 16, as I'm fairer than snow white on a rainy day in November, and so burn very easily. :-( (Actually, at the same time, I bought some fake tan! lol)

Being water resistant, I can swim in this stuff, which is great as water actually reflects more UV and so on onto the skin. In addition to this, Nivea have included some vitamin E to help your skin.

"UVA and UVB filters" good. "UV stable" which I'm told by a nice person means it continues to protect just as effectively the whole time you wear it.

What's great about this stuff is that it gives lots of advice on when to reapply, which SPF to use, and when to avoid the sun altogether. It also is easily absorbed, and I found it to have a nice smooth consistency which went on well. You need to top up afterhalf an hour.

Ingredients? Well there're lots, buut if you're that interested...

*Aqua
*C12-15 Alkyl benzoate
*Glycerin
*Dicaprylyl ether
*Glyceryl stearate SE
*4-methhylbenzylidene camphor
*Alcohol denat.
*Octyl triazone
*Octyldodecanol
*Caprylic/capric triglyceride
*Butylene glycol
*Stearic acid
*Butyl methoxydibenzoylmethane
*Titanium
dioxide
*Cetearyl alcohol
*Cetyl dimethicone
*Sodium stearate
*Xanthum gum
*Tocopheryl acetate
*Trisodium EDTA
*Lanolin alcohol
*Phenoxyethanol
*Methylparaben
*Ethylparaben
*Propylparaben
*Butylparaben
*Parfum

Whew! My eyes have gone all funny now! Time for some rainbathing! Where's the suncream???

Sugarlily. x

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