Swimming
I asked the boys today what the best thing about summer was and they both answered: swimming and snow cones.
Today is the “official” first day of summer…although here in South Texas it seems summer starts in April, it starts getting….hot hot hot. So when the thermostat reads 100 and the heat index is 107, the only thing you can do outside (and not suffer from heat stroke) is to go swimming.
It’s time again to break out the swim trunks and bikinis and head to the pool….but before you do don’t forget the sunscreen. Did you know?
Sunscreens have not always been so prevalent. The first commercial sunscreens came out during World War II, when U.S. sailors used zinc oxide preparations to prevent sunburn. The general public picked up the practice in the 1950s and 1960s.
Annual sunscreen sales in the U.S. and Europe are each about $100 million.
Although some believe that sunblock and sunscreen are both the same, they are not. Although they have similar properties and are both important in caring of the skin, sunblock is opaque and is stronger than sunscreen since it is able to block a majority of the UVA/UVB rays and radiation from the sun, thus not having to be reapplied several times a day.
Happy Swimming!!!
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