Sun Dance lip balsam

Hi my Readers 🙂

I don’t know how is the weather around you but where I am, it was suposed to be spring and maybe even summer-ish temperatures for a while now. The winter is taking it’s time but the preparations for the summer have already started. That is not visible by my clothing but definitely in my mind 😀

Few years go, dm dregerie markt have released their lip balms with SPF. I don’t know if that is entirely true or some marketing trick to get us to buy more stuff but I still got it because I lost the one with 20 SFP that I had. To my surprise it smelled like coconut as claimed but also tasted sweat. At the time I worked at a place where people didn’t bother to ask if in the things left behind in the women’s powder room belonged to someone so they threw it away. It may have been my fault but still, didn’t hurt to ask or leave it for people to find it. I guess SPF doesn’t like me that much 😀

Anyways… because it was limited edition, I couldn’t buy it again so I forgot about it, up until few days ago when I saw that dm’s brand SUN Dance have released something suspiciously similar. I like coconut and of course I bought it so here is my opinion on it:

I may not be the same but it sure reminds me a lot of it so I’d say – suspiciously similar.

Previous one: had thicker consistency. Smelled sweet – vanilla and little bit like coconut. Tasted slightly sweet (not at the point where you would like to eat it, but just comfortable not to taste like oil).

New one: thinner consistency, other than that everything is the same.

Also, the packaging is different. It was yellow, now is cute light blue with coconut and some summer themes on it.

I don’t know if the inflation is hitting them too and that’s why they made it thinner this time 😀

It doesn’t say it is limited edition but just like the previous one I assume it will go away once the summer is gone and once they get rid of the stocks.

How it feels: other than the cute packaging and everything about the smell and taste, I don’t see much of a difference. The previous one used to leave a white film on the lips which actually looked nice. I don’t need much help for the lips but I have noticed that whenever I am wearing it, I tend to constantly smush my lips together. I don’t know why is that but has happened few times before too, with other lip balms.

Does it protect the lips from the sun? I don’t know, yet, since there is not much sun and I only got it 2 weeks ago, although it claims to protect against the UVA and UVB rays so hopefully it will.

It is fair amount (10ml) so I would assume it will last quite a bit. The ingredients are not that special.

As I am sitting and writing this, I can feel that the lip balm is disappearing and that’s little bit too fast for me. If I lose this one, I don’t know if I would buy it again or just finally try the coconut one from Ziaja 😀 https://positivityandbeauty.wordpress.com/2019/03/22/my-used-to-be-favorite-lip-balm/

And another review from Balea and their lip balms (which is practically the same or very similar)
https://positivityandbeauty.wordpress.com/2019/02/17/balea-lip-care/

Any thoughts on this one?

Wishing you a good start of the week.

Remember to do something good today, even it is something insignificant to you 🙂

Antidote

How to avoid and treat sunburn

Hi my Reader 🙂

I too am tired of sun protection and avoiding the sunbeams. I’m here to write – don’t avoid the sun. Embrace it, but with good protection.

UVB + UVA beams make a lethal combination for the biggest organ in our body – the skin. However repetitive it is – it is very important to protect yourself from them. It may be very boring reading this from everyone’s blog and hearing it from everyone, but it is very present because of its importance.

I’ve been avoiding the sun because I’m so pale. But I’m here to write something to you and that is:  DON’T DO THAT. Don’t avoid the sun! By avoiding the sun, you are cutting yourself from the d-vitamin that is essential for your happiness and artificial is not the same as the real d-vitamin.

Here are some things that will help you spend your days in the sun but with the safe way.

1. 1. The most important thing you should learn: the shadow from the umbrella or hat or trees or buildings is not your friend.

   First thing to know about the sunbeams: they can get to you in the shadow! Sunbeams are lurking around and if you are not protected with sun cream or covered with clothes directly, that umbrella, hat, cloud or shadow from the tree won’t be able to help you. Trust me on this one, I’ve suffered enough just „to make sure“ 😀

   2. When there is no sun and only clouds are covering you, UVA are still there to roast your skin. 

   And when you think that there is wind with combination with clouds and you think that there is no danger, UVA will hit you…BAD! Even worse than the UVB.

   3. Before exposing your skin to the sun excessively, eat a lot of orange – colored fruits and vegetables.

   Carrots, oranges, orange juice. It will help absorb the D-vitamin quicker and better and it will tan your skin evenly.

   4. Wear hat and sunglasses.

   Protect your eyes from the sun. Especially if you are like me and you like to spend your day with the curtains down so you can prevent the heat coming into your room 😀

   And hat is stylish. Do you need any more reasons to wear it? =)

   5. Save yourself from sunburn – use SPF cream.

   As someone with very light to pale (mostly pale) skin, leaving without SPF cream on even for a 10 min walk is not an option. Especially since I’ve been avoiding the sun because I’m so pale (DON’T DO THAT, you are cutting yourself from the D-vitamin that is essential for your happiness). If I spend more than 15 min on the sun without wearing sunscreen, my skin starts to react and becomes like chess board – but with white and red bricks. It’s interesting and disturbing at the same time 😀

   6. What to do if you roast yourself and you end up looking like a bacon

   Put yogurt on the skin where you got sunburn. Leave it overnight and because that sunburn will hurt you, it shouldn’t be a problem keeping you from rubbing it off your bed while sleeping 😀 (had to write it this way since you didn’t listen to my other advices). The good bacteria in the yogurt will react and cool down and heal your burned skin. Aloe Vera gel can also be very helpful.

    

My arm after forgetting to bring my sunscreen with me on a trip

7. After the redness is gone

Put some VERY oily body milk on the skin so you can avoid skin damage from the sunburn. After the sunburn, the skin is dehydrated and will peel off. You can make that process come later in the month instead of the next days by putting very oily and hydrating body milk.

 

Make sure you follow this steps for safe exposure to the sun.

And here are some pictures that are suitable for this topic and were taken from my balcony 🙂

Have a nice week. Do something good today.

Regards, Antidote 🙂