Rhelyn Harder
- Instead of protecting your delicate skin, a sunscreen brand has burned the skin and caused irritations
- It causes horrible, chemical-like burn reactions on her skin, due to the type of ingredient on the brand
- She advises to avoid all chemical sunscreens and stick to physical sunscreen
Planning to have a summer vacation “sunscreen” is always on every vacationer’s list to protect the skin from getting burned under the heat of the sun. But instead of protecting your delicate skin, a sunscreen brand has burned the skin and cause irritations.
A Facebook user, Brooke Lipoff, gave a warning to the people on using a certain brand of sunscreen which she shared on her Facebook.
“Be careful using spray and/or chemical sunscreens! Take my mistake as a horribly painful lesson learned! 😢”
The product she used was Banana Boat Sport SPF 50 “simply protect” spray sunscreen, which had a horrible chemical reaction or burn on her skin. This was not her first time using other spray sunscreens and she didn’t encounter any problems.
This happened when they bought another kind of spray sunscreen which is the Banana Boat spray sunscreen, before they left Miami. It caused horrible, chemical-like burning reactions on her skin due to the type of ingredient on the brand.
Brooke is unaware that the chemical burns by Banana Boat’s aerosol sunscreen are a common complaint of customers.
Health Canada testing Banana Boat sunscreens as complaints mount https://t.co/181OiwsRXv pic.twitter.com/Bo3gdFtZyl
— CTV News (@CTVNews) July 5, 2017
Victoria mom says Banana boat aerosol sunscreen may have caused serious burn for her son:https://t.co/2O8YazWfu3 pic.twitter.com/QWgfOy2rbI
— CFAX 1070 Victoria (@cfax1070) July 1, 2017
Health Canada gets more claims of Banana Boat Sunscreen causing burns; alleged victims range from 3 months to 30 yrs https://t.co/JPSMeAPypX
— CBC News Alerts (@CBCAlerts) June 3, 2017
On her post, she describes the pain and the reactions of the chemical on their skin.
“My knees are so painful and swollen that I can barely walk. And my right arm is swollen and so painful. When I stand all these areas are painfully throbbing.”
She also consulted her case with the medics and they gave her hydrocortisone cream, took ibuprofen, and applied aloe with Lidocaine just to ease the pain on the redness of the skin.
https://www.facebook.com/brookelipoff/posts/10112615445827299
With the experience and research that she had, she advised consumers to avoid all chemical sunscreens and stick to physical sunscreens, since 80% or more of the sunscreens in stores are chemical-based. She suggest being aware of ingredients like oxybenzone, avobenzone, octocrylene, homosalate, or octinoxate, which can cause chemical reactions and other health problems.
With all her regrets, she wished that if she could have done more research before using the product, she would not have experienced the pain she had.
