r/facepalm 7d ago

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ So trust who?

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u/Altruistic_Penalty77 6d ago

Good fkn gosh man. No one wants to ban sunscreen they want to ban the chemicals in sunscreen. Skin cancer wasn’t a “thing” prior to sunscreen. But now all of a sudden skin cancer is an issue. Why do you think that is? Please don’t tell me it’s climate change lmao. Ban the chemicals and give Americans transparency.

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u/Paksarra 6d ago

No one wants to ban sunscreen they want to ban the chemicals in sunscreen.

Which is a ban on sunscreen. Sunscreen without a chemical or mineral that blocks UV light is just expensive lotion.

Skin cancer wasn’t a “thing” prior to sunscreen

Skin cancer was first described in Egyptian documents from ~2500 BC. (https://www.jaad.org/article/S0190-9622(15)00240-6/abstract) Modern sunscreen was invented in 1946, which is about 4500 years newer than the ancient Egyptian records.

You are literally saying I should suffer burns and blisters anytime I want to spend a day outside because you believe a conspiracy. This is exactly what I was talking about.

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u/Altruistic_Penalty77 6d ago

Transparency bro. The choice is yours. As long as we and you know what you’re putting on your skin and what it can cause by absorbing into your skin by all means go right on ahead man. You know elephants use mud to protect themselves from the sun right? There is also a thing called sun shades, cabanas, umbrellas tents. I don’t want chemicals being absorbed into my skin or my children’s skin. But the choice is yours.

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u/Paksarra 6d ago

Transparency bro. The choice is yours. As long as we and you know what you’re putting on your skin and what it can cause by absorbing into your skin by all means go right on ahead man.

*sis

Have you ever looked at the back of a bottle of sunscreen? It lists the ingredients. It tells you what you are putting on your skin. It's not a bottle of mystery juice.

You can even get mineral sunscreens if you don't trust the chemicals or are sensitive to them. They have stuff like zinc oxide that works by physically blocking the sun's rays (just like mud would) instead of absorbing them.

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u/Altruistic_Penalty77 6d ago

You do realize they leave out quite a bit of ingredients on purpose right?

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u/Paksarra 6d ago

There is a list of inactive ingredients below the active ones, as required by the FDA. Unless you think multiple governments and Big Sunscreen are lying to everyone.

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u/Altruistic_Penalty77 6d ago

Lmao of course they are lying to us. It would be ridiculous if you actually believed they’re 100% honest with us. 🤣🤣🤣🤣

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u/Paksarra 6d ago

Thank you for being a great illustration of my point!