Skin Cancer Blog Posts

For most of the country, sunscreen has been stashed away with the beach towels and sand shovels. But in the South and West, where actually the largest percentage of the country live…sunscreen is still a concern.

In our house we go through sunscreen like water. I buy it carefully at the start of the year, checking to ensure it is organic and zinc oxide based. This turns out to be important. Commercial sunscreens are notorious for containing all sorts of scary chemicals. You can read more about that in the learn section, here. So, I try to be careful.

It’s exactly this time of year though, as summer has faded to fall and winter is not yet here, that I forget about sunscreen. Cool mornings with fog tend to lead the mind toward sweaters, not sunscreen. So I often forget to apply it before my son leaves for school. Read more...