sunscreen with SPF 100 is a reality

Check it:

http://shine.yahoo.com/event/yourbestsummerbody/the-latest-inventions-and-findings-in-sun-damage-prevention-459674/

Thoughts?

I think its useful, considering most people forget to apply sunscreen regularly (ahem, me). And I'm glad to hear that more is being done to rate UVA rays (which totally freak me out).

Do you think its too much, and that people should stop being lazy and be more diligent with sun care? Or is it useful for the forgetful?

I think its great because even if one's not lazy, they can still get pretty badly burned from spf 70 applied regularly (I have a lot of pale friends)

as for me, i try to avoid getting tan at all, and it seems like this stuff makes it possible.

well
i got maddd burns
even from applying 45 once every hour
so this stuff would be useful
HURRAY

Personally, I wouldn't use it. Anything above SPF 30 doesn't really have much of a difference in the percentage of UV rays it blocks. When you get up to that high of an SPF then you're just putting more cancer-causing chemicals on your skin than necessary.

i'm with lindsay :/

??? I always thought anything above 30 wouldn't make much of a difference?

My cousin always boasts of his sunscreen with SPF Infinity... I would tell him that it's pointless, and not to mention impossible, but he's not worth arguing with.

=[ so im still going to burn?

Another article:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/14/fashion/14SKIN.html?no_interstitial

It is excessive, going to 100...but for those that forget, hate tanning, don't have the time, etc; its good to have that extra bit of protection...even if its not that much. I get very uncomfortable when I'm out in the sun - my skin now burns and tans - so I'm leaning more towards the yey side than the ney.

Mandy fries like bacon in the sun...in addition to sunscreen I hide under umbrella's on the beach...and I STILL burn..

Sadface.

more sunscreen talk, courtesy of Troy Jensen:

http://troyjensenonline.blogspot.com/2009/04/yikes.html