Gotta be careful. I've spent years in Florida and finally figured out that it's a good idea to wear LOTS of sunblock, as well as shades and a hat to protect the eyes, especially when outside, or driving, or fishing. Glare of the sun off the water is murder!
I got to talking to my mom about why my great grand mother and both grand mothers has such beautiful skin.
Interesting that in the 1870 time my great grandma was born in 1867, woman and girls wore hats veils, gloves long skirts outside.
By the 1890's the veils were mostly gone but the hats and gloves remained.
To be extremely politically incorrect, this was for the City woman and servants that set them apart from the farming family's that toiled all day in the sun.
I remember my grandmas telling me to never use soap on my face, cold cream wiped off was best. Unsalted butter was a good substitute as was any kind of animal fat unsalted and rinsed off with raw milk. Doesn't lanolin come from sheep fat.??
One of the few ways anyone could tell their age, my grandmothers, was by looking at their hands. They discarded the gloves in the late 1940's and by the 1990's their faces looked about 60 but their hands showed they were over 90 years old.
Nothing new to see here guys, civilisations in the below the equator have all ways as far as we know painted their faces to reduce sunburn. Civilisations above the equator also knew about the sun and found a way to cover themselves from the effects.
What is the saying---Only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the noon day sun.???
An old fable says a person of color does not sunburn. Horse crap, some of the worse burns I have ever seen were to children of color that did not realise they were being burned until they had to go to the burn ward at the hospital.
The new generation believes that climate change and depleted ozone layers cause skin cancer, a new human made problem from industrialized country's.
This is NOT so, mankind has been worshiping the sun and protecting themselves from it since time began.
I knew this old fart of a man with a cynical view point that once asked me why the worse woman for being prejudice against those of color would spend half a year on a beach to try to get a tan darker then those they felt inferior to themselves.
Makes me wonder about the huge sums of money the Kennedy sisters spent on their looks. All the European spas, ointments and elixirs did not do one thing for them as they seldom wore a hat while out side sailing or riding.
By the time the sun had done its damage, their husbands were either gone, dead, divorced them, so why bother to worry, they seemed to think that Big money would save them from a life looking like a Mummy due to their own stupidity.
