sunscreen

I'm an outdoorsy type of person and I have very fair skin. It burns easily, so I usually apply a lot of sunscreen when I go outside in the middle of the day during the summer months(I'm in the north-east U.S). That said, I have some questions about when to use sunscreen: 1) Do I have to use...

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As a fair skinned redhead (at least until it turned grey and fell out) I am a regular user of sunscreen and/or sunblock during the warmer months. The instructions invariably say to apply the sunscreen 15 to 30 minutes before exposure. I recently started to wonder what happens during that 15 to...

Alright, I was just sitting around thinking about things, and these questions just popped into my head. After all I've learned here, all I thought I knew but really didn't, and how decieved I was before, I'm going to ask this seriously. Is the big risk of skin cancer and the absolute need for...