Stop science-ing on these pearl clutchers.

I used Alba’s sunscreen and I got a sunburn.

My biggest issue with this is the lady that started her tweet with “no offense”. Like, first of all, you are condemning this product so you do definitely mean some offense. And I also hate people who use “no offense” as a way to say super offensive things and be indemnified against the super offensive things they’re…

This is particularly funny because, even by the standards of the “chemicals are scary” crowd, there’s nothing terribly “artificial” about zinc oxide. Zinc is a mineral, it's mined out of the ground, either as metallic zinc or as a component of various ores. You heat it up until it vaporizes, and it reacts with oxygen…

It’s almost like the active ingredients actively do something! It’s almost like Banana Boat isn’t trying to poison your children.

Skin cancer survivor here. “Tanning at the river before prom” became “second degree sunburn from hell” and then “melanoma at 20”. It is now 15 years later and I still have to be checked every six months. I have had five other precancerous spots removed from my back, and my once lovely skin now has giant Frankentracks…

Unfortunately not true, ALL sunscreen needs to be reapplies (a shot glass’s worth for the body) after 2 hours of sun exposure.

Several family members, teachers and neighbours annoyed me with this while I was growing up. One neighbour even offered me a gift certificate for a tanning studio because to her I looked “too sick”. I go from pale, to red and back to white as a sheet. I couldn’t tan if my life depended on it. Luckily I have a slightly…

The older boy is a ginger, and the younger boy has blonde hair and blue eyes. These are white white white kids.

Possibly ginger but it sounds mostly like their parents have been really really good about sunscreen and sun-protection in the past, so their skin isn’t really damaged at all yet. (Wasn’t, I suppose. :\)

I am a very fair-skinned person who had a sunburn like this at 6. I was at a lake all day and the adults in charge failed to put any sunscreen on me. You can’t even imagine the pain. I blistered all over and then when those broke it was like alligator skin for weeks. These poor, poor boys. I’d be enraged over this.

Probably just that they have had properly applied sunscreen for most of their lives.

THIRD DEGREE FUCKING SUN BURNS?!?

Right? There are lots of things that deserve flippant headlines, neglecting children isn’t one of them!

the jez headlines have been really off lately.

From my experience ... Never, ever entrust daycare workers, teachers, or camp counselors with applying sunscreen to your kid. Not only are they usually busy with several other kids at the same time, they’ll often apply it hurriedly or wrong. It’s far better to apply a good, thick coating in the morning before you drop…

The sun is no joke. I grew up fair skinned and red-haired like one of the little guys in this story and suffered with sunburn all the time growing up (back in the day when it was called “suntan oil” instead of sunscreen). I can’t tell you how many freckles have turned into “suspicious areas that need to be biopsied”…

Agreed.The words “legitimately terrible” and “booboos” don’t usually go hand in hand.

That is severe neglect. I hope this means they have lost their license and that no one involved will be in this business again.

Although it sounds like the result of some freaked-out parent being annoying, these sunburns are legitimately terrible.