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[wazowskiLOVER:)]

I use Neutrogena Fresh Cooling Body Mist Sunblock SPF 70. I don't like using sunblock from the tube. That stuff icks me out SOO much and since they started going really big on the sprays, I've been sticking with those and I LOVE em!! Its also easier on me because of my makeup and I don't have to worry about messing it up.

SPF 100 ? That sounds like it would be expensive!

 

[Sherry E]

I use Neutrogena Fresh Cooling Body Mist Sunblock SPF 70. I don't like using sunblock from the tube. That stuff icks me out SOO much and since they started going really big on the sprays, I've been sticking with those and I LOVE em!! Its also easier on me because of my makeup and I don't have to worry about messing it up.

SPF 100 ? That sounds like it would be expensive!

Hmmmm.....so Neutrogena seems to be the brand that everyone agrees on (again, I think they hide that over with the skin care products in my store, so I never see it over at the sunscreen display!), but Jas, you like the spray, huh? To be honest, I have always detested having to whip out the tube wherever I am, every so often, and slather on sunscreen because no matter how quick-drying it is, it always seems to leave a residue on my hands, and if I have to grab for my camera or something really fast, then the stuff gets on my camera. I wanted to try the sunscreen spray (I have a scalp sunscreen spray) because it just seems easier and faster to me, but I was not sure how effective it was in protection. So you are saying that the Body Mist sunblock can be used on your face too, over your make-up? And it is just as effective in keeping you from getting burnt as the lotion would be? Because if I can avoid having to slather on goopy lotion, that would be nice.

Yes, sunscreen is not cheap anyway (though I think we would all agree that is a necessary investment), so the SPF 100 that Neutrogena offers probably costs a GOOD chunk of change!

 

[prettyprincessbelle]

SPF 100 ? That sounds like it would be expensive!

I didn't even know they made that!

 

[bumbershoot]

I use Neutrogena Fresh Cooling Body Mist Sunblock SPF 70. I don't like using sunblock from the tube. That stuff icks me out SOO much and since they started going really big on the sprays, I've been sticking with those and I LOVE em!! Its also easier on me because of my makeup and I don't have to worry about messing it up.

So you are saying that the Body Mist sunblock can be used on your face too, over your make-up? And it is just as effective in keeping you from getting burnt as the lotion would be?

I had the same question as Sherry.

I don't normally wear makeup, but I've recently started with the mineral stuff, but it seems so silly to put on sunscreen in the morning, put on the mineral stuff, then 2 hours later slather more 'screenon and lose the made up look! So it actually works?

And here I was thinking I was going to *have to* get a big floppy hat, thereby making me look just like Robert's mom (she uses big floppy hats or very large visored visor hats). OK I could never look just like her, LOL, but still. I'm trying to avoid wearing similar things!


Also, does the Neutrogena smell bad? Some very pale lady was doing the spray sunscreen thing in line in May, and EW it was bad. I try to not be a jerk and cough, but it was impossible, so then she got a small attitude blah blah.

Also also, I've started using the Banana Boat spray stuff with E (I spray really close to him so I don't get other people), but I end up smearing it on him anyway, b/c it just doesn't cover unless I use a TON. So you can really spray and NOT smear, and it works?

 

[kaoden39]

I use Neutrogena Fresh Cooling Body Mist Sunblock SPF 70. I don't like using sunblock from the tube. That stuff icks me out SOO much and since they started going really big on the sprays, I've been sticking with those and I LOVE em!! Its also easier on me because of my makeup and I don't have to worry about messing it up.

SPF 100 ? That sounds like it would be expensive!

My husband uses the spray when he rides his bike. I have used it to and it is the bomb but I prefer this for my face.

And be sure and put it on your ears and the back of your neck.

 

[kaoden39]

I had the same question as Sherry.

I don't normally wear makeup, but I've recently started with the mineral stuff, but it seems so silly to put on sunscreen in the morning, put on the mineral stuff, then 2 hours later slather more 'screenon and lose the made up look! So it actually works?

And here I was thinking I was going to *have to* get a big floppy hat, thereby making me look just like Robert's mom (she uses big floppy hats or very large visored visor hats). OK I could never look just like her, LOL, but still. I'm trying to avoid wearing similar things!


Also, does the Neutrogena smell bad? Some very pale lady was doing the spray sunscreen thing in line in May, and EW it was bad. I try to not be a jerk and cough, but it was impossible, so then she got a small attitude blah blah.

Also also, I've started using the Banana Boat spray stuff with E (I spray really close to him so I don't get other people), but I end up smearing it on him anyway, b/c it just doesn't cover unless I use a TON. So you can really spray and NOT smear, and it works?

The spray does have kind of unique scent. The tube doesn't and it isn't greasy and has a better smell. My mineral makeup has a sunscreen in it too. It isn't bad putting on over the lotion either.

 

[Sherry E]

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[kaoden39]

Remember to put it on your ears too. I love the spray for anywhere but my face.

 

[Sherry E]

Remember to put it on your ears too. I love the spray for anywhere but my face.

The ears are always one of the first things to turn beet red, aren't they? That's never a good look! If I had my hair down, as I did last year in October and December, I wouldn't have to worry too much about my ears, but seeing that it will be hot, most likely the hair will go up in a ponytail, leaving the neck and ears exposed. I think the sunscreen spray might feel nice on the back of my neck! I hope it doesn't stain clothes because chances are I will accidentally get it on whatever shirt I am wearing.

 

[kaoden39]

The ears are always one of the first things to turn beet red, aren't they? That's never a good look! If I had my hair down, as I did last year in October and December, I wouldn't have to worry too much about my ears, but seeing that it will be hot, most likely the hair will go up in a ponytail, leaving the neck and ears exposed. I think the sunscreen spray might feel nice on the back of my neck! I hope it doesn't stain clothes because chances are I will accidentally get it on whatever shirt I am wearing.

I know for fact it doesn't stain clothes. This is like our third summer buying and using the spray. Do you belong to Costco? We do and we always end up paying about the same price for two cans as one costs at the pharmacy. And the cans are bigger.

 

[wazowskiLOVER:)]

Oh it 100% works over makeup! I did not sunburn ONCE on our 4th of July trip and I did not go back to the hotel for 2 of the 3 days we were there, so I was in the sun A LOT without anything covering my face. The only thing I say that did bother me is how it got my hair a little greasy (because I have bangs, but then again greasy bangs are a pet peeve of mine and I pay attention to it TOO much). I do say that the spray sunblock is just as effective because I forgot to put it on the last day of the Memorial Weekend trip and burned my arms, when I didn't on the previous days. Oh and it does have a weird medicine like scent to it, but I like the spray because you don't feel sticky afterward like you do with regular sunblock.

I have to get more Band Aid foot blister protect pads too - I always have those with me because my feet are blister-prone (which is why I cannot wear flip-flops, ever - blister central on my feet!). I don't know if I will need them on such a short DLR trip but I don't want to find out I need them and then not have them with me!

So the Baggallini will be loaded down with stuff for DLR again: suncreen (whatever kind I get), blister protect thingies, Motrin, travel sized Splash n Go wipes (in case we end up at TPG or something), mini-Purell, Listerine breath strips, camera, battery, memory cards and camera manual (so I can look up stuff in case I need to know how to do things), Kleenex, Zantac (just in case), Sudafed (just in case allergies go on a rampage), glasses and sunglasses, water bottles (however many I can fit in there and manage to carry with me), lip gloss/balm (love Blistex Lip Tone!) and a compact, birthday e-mail from Disney with bar code, AP (can't forget that!), ticket for Shawn (free from client), cell phone, ID, etc. etc. I know I am forgetting something. That is not all, I am sure of it. There is probably still stuff in that Baggallini from the last DLR trip (in December) so I may not have to pack it up much at all and I can just look in there and see what I am forgetting!!!

OMG Sherry!! You are JUST LIKE ME when it comes to packing your bag for the park. Those splash & go wipes are like my BEST friend. I LOVE them. Not to mention almost everything else on your list. I have to say that I pretty much carry all of what you stated plus a little bit more haha. Usually its all that plus a video recorder and my tripod HAHA. By the end of the day, my shoulders get sore from all the stuff in my bag, but I totally use it all (or someone else on our trip needs something from my bag which I lovingly call my traveling drugstore! )

 

[Sherry E]

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[Sherry E]

I know for fact it doesn't stain clothes. This is like our third summer buying and using the spray. Do you belong to Costco? We do and we always end up paying about the same price for two cans as one costs at the pharmacy. And the cans are bigger.

I do not belong to Costco, but I keep hearing about all these great discounts on things there (like someone just saw a great Catalina discount thing there, for example). How much does it cost to join?

 

[kaoden39]

I do not belong to Costco, but I keep hearing about all these great discounts on things there (like someone just saw a great Catalina discount thing there, for example). How much does it cost to join?

We pay $100 a year for our membership but we have like two sets of memberships. I think it is like $40 a year for a regular membership. I think that the price balances out in so many ways. They have so many things that are so worth having a membership for. We paid I believe $13.99 for the two cans of spray and that little tube of lotion. And I love how they package their chicken. You buy three pounds of chicken breasts but they are packaged individually so you don't have to separate it all out. That is just one example.

 

[Sherry E]

We pay $100 a year for our membership but we have like two sets of memberships. I think it is like $40 a year for a regular membership. I think that the price balances out in so many ways. They have so many things that are so worth having a membership for. We paid I believe $13.99 for the two cans of spray and that little tube of lotion. And I love how they package their chicken. You buy three pounds of chicken breasts but they are packaged individually so you don't have to separate it all out. That is just one example.

You mean at Costco each individual chicken breast is packaged individually and then you can buy 3 pounds' worth? I would love that! I eat chicken breasts all the time and as I was cooking some fresh ones up yesterday, I was grumbling to myself about getting a big bulk of them and then having to wrap the other ones up if I only take out two. Foster Farms started packaging their frozen chicken breasts in a box (rather than the old bag they used to have), and each one is wrapped individually in plastic, but if you buy the fresh kind, of course, then you use one or two and have to wrap the rest of them up, which is a pain.

 

[kaoden39]

You mean at Costco each individual chicken breast is packaged individually and then you can buy 3 pounds' worth? I would love that! I eat chicken breasts all the time and as I was cooking some fresh ones up yesterday, I was grumbling to myself about getting a big bulk of them and then having to wrap the other ones up if I only take out two. Foster Farms started packaging their frozen chicken breasts in a box (rather than the old bag they used to have), and each one is wrapped individually in plastic, but if you buy the fresh kind, of course, then you use one or two and have to wrap the rest of them up, which is a pain.

Yes, they sell Foster Farm in the big package individually wrapped. I love it. I think it is brilliant packaging. We also buy movie tickets at Costco for $14.99 for two, which if you go to the movies you know what a bargain that is. We also drink a lot of bottled water and a case of 35 Costco brand bottles of water is less than $5 a case. The membership really pays for itself.

 

[Sherry E]

Yes, they sell Foster Farm in the big package individually wrapped. I love it. I think it is brilliant packaging. We also buy movie tickets at Costco for $14.99 for two, which if you go to the movies you know what a bargain that is. We also drink a lot of bottled water and a case of 35 Costco brand bottles of water is less than $5 a case. The membership really pays for itself.

Kind of like getting an AP for DLR - it starts paying for itself in discounts right away! I eat tons of (boneless, skinless) chicken breasts and drink tons of bottled water, and the chicken is not cheap, so any kind of bargain I can get on those would be great.

I don't go out to the movies a lot at all, specifically BECAUSE of the price of tickets, so yes, that is a good deal for two people! The last movie I saw in a theater (at The Grove, which has a gorgeous theater) was the Sex and the City movie. I am a huge fan of that series, and I just happened to get a free movie ticket through Vons because of what I ordered online in my grocery delivery, so I was able to see SATC for free. Of course now I have watched the movie a dozen times on cable since then too, but at least I got a nice day at the movies in a lovely theater in a lovely shopping center for free!

 

[bumbershoot]

Sherry, I was never able to justify Costco when I was single, but then, I have weird issues with large amounts of food...like the big huge tubs of mayonnaise make me kind of ill to look at. But I'm getting better with it. Plus, I was just a 20-something when my married friends were taking me (I'd just go hang out with them and sometimes they'd need to visit Costco), so if I were shopping for one now I might feel differently. (not about the mayo, though)

Our membership is $50, it includes both me and hubby. They have a bigger plan where you get 1 or 2% back of your purchases for the year. That's $100, at least in our area. We have yet to buy enough in a year to make that worth it.

 

[wazowskiLOVER:)]

Sorry to jump on the subject, but I LOOOVE Costco for printing. I took a couple of photography classes at State and I got my prints done at Costco because they are good quality and less expensive than a good print shop for quality prints. So if anyone wants great print photos, go there!

 

[Sherry E]

Sherry, I was never able to justify Costco when I was single, but then, I have weird issues with large amounts of food...like the big huge tubs of mayonnaise make me kind of ill to look at. But I'm getting better with it. Plus, I was just a 20-something when my married friends were taking me (I'd just go hang out with them and sometimes they'd need to visit Costco), so if I were shopping for one now I might feel differently. (not about the mayo, though)

Our membership is $50, it includes both me and hubby. They have a bigger plan where you get 1 or 2% back of your purchases for the year. That's $100, at least in our area. We have yet to buy enough in a year to make that worth it.

I don't even use mayo, so that temptation would elude me! Now mustard, on the other hand, is something I use a LOT of! But you reminded me of a current commercial - I think it is Jack in the Box - where 'Jack' is shopping in a warehouse store or club store such as Costco, loading up his cart with useless things and commenting on other people's purchases, as well as rolling huge tubs of things down the aisles. At one point he wheels his cart past a woman who is loading a humongous package of bathroom tissue into her cart, and he says something like (and I am paraphrasing), "Hmmm...someone has been eating their fiber..." It's a very clever end funny commercial.