Expiry listed as 30/11/2025.
With delivery cost, you would need to order a few for it to be worth it - and it will be a race against time to use them before expiry.
Definitely does, I know from experience. Spent a day at the beach using sunscreen from my mother’s kitchen cabinet. Burnt to a crisp. Turns out it was two years out of date and totally useless.
Active UV filters degrade
Thanks - I better go and check the bathroom cupboard then. I am sure some of it it years old lol
Honestly if you look at the ingredients, some products have chemicals that may have the potential to cause cancer, especially the petrolium based ones
Yes, I suppose it is a balance of evils - Australia has the highest rates of skin cancer in the world.
From AI: 'at least two in three Australians expected to be diagnosed with skin cancer in their lifetime'
@King Tightarse: I think that statistic is over exagerated, that implies 65% of the people you know have had or will potentially get skin cancer. In my lifetime, i only knew not more than 10 who had skin cancer, and im talking about a few thousand people .
@easternculture: I think it is meant over the entire lifetime, so many older people have skin cancers cut out.
More here: https://www.phrp.com.au/media/media-releases/two-in-three-au…
@King Tightarse: Still doesnt add up. Just googled the statistics over last 10 years. It might refer to "from the total amount of people diagnosed with cancer" not the actual australian population, but they forgot to add that
@easternculture: What data source are you using? The 2 in 3 figure quoted by the Cancer Council cites this paper https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35290995/
Because many people are affected by multiple lesions, the lesion-based incidence estimates are more than double the person-based rates (BCC: 1565/100 000 person years; SCC: 580/100 000 person years)
Still does not equate to 2 in 3 people
@easternculture: Did you read the whole paper? How about this part?
We estimate that 69% of Australians will have at least one excision for histologically confirmed keratinocyte cancer in their lifetime (60% to age 79 years).
If you disagree with the analysis or quote maybe take it up with the researchers or Cancer Council. What are your qualifications in this field?
Kogan Marketplace.
Can't see how this could be worth it with delivery costs. You can get something pretty good for $4 that is also carry on approved at Woolworths and not fighting the expiry
Coles are selling a bunch of short dated for 50c to $1. Range may vary from store to store
Remember that some cancer councils were found to not have the advertised SPF of 50+. There was a Choice research a bit ago. This is a quick article i found, but there are many other online corroborating this.
Ensure your sunscreen is in date.
About twenty five years ago I had a melanoma removed from my arm. No symptoms apart from an “age spot”. If I’d ignored my age spot I probably wouldn’t be here anymore.
As a kid we rarely wore sunscreen and spent Summer peeling sunburnt skin off our bodies.
Trying to pretend the statistics don’t apply to you is a good way to get into trouble. Assume it will be you and take the precautions.
I avoid spending much time in direct Sun. I keep to the shadows and avoid getting burnt. If swimming I wear a rashie vest.
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Did not realise that sunscreen had an expiry date.
What component expires?