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blah. beware of coppertone sunscreen
Posted by: M A V I C
Date: August 04, 2012 10:20PM
I used coppertone for years but haven't for the past few. I spent the last week camping on the coast and picked up some coppertone sunscreen for the last couple days. Apparently sometime recently they added a new ingredient which, for many, turns orange with sweat and stains your clothes. We've washed a few things with stain remover ( pre soaked) multiple times and the stains don't come out. It's probably stained a couple hundred bucks of stuff.



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Re: blah. beware of coppertone sunscreen
Posted by: Mike Johnson
Date: August 04, 2012 10:25PM
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nisi on Gardenweb
You have a lot of iron in your water, don't you? The orange stains are a chemical reaction between a certain sunscreen ingredient and the iron in your water. That's why they don't show up until after you wash the item. The culprit is avobenzone (aka Parsol 1789). It is an oxidizer, and it oxidizes the iron in your water. So the stains are basically rust. You never had this problem before because avobenzone just started showing up in run-of-the-mill sunscreens in the last year or two. Water temp, detergent type, etc. don't matter. It's all about the iron in your water.

As for the stains, they'll probably be a challenge to remove. Find a rust remover that's safe for the fabric, and use that. I've had good luck with a product called Magica...
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Re: blah. beware of coppertone sunscreen
Posted by: Forrest
Date: August 05, 2012 12:21AM
There's also a warning about this stuff being flammable. I saw one report of a consumer using it, then cooking on a BBQ. He was rushed to the hospital with multiple burns.

I know first hand this stuff collects at the bottom your shower/bathtub - making it very slippery.



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Re: blah. beware of coppertone sunscreen
Posted by: kap
Date: August 05, 2012 12:27AM
Which Coopertone? We have always used the Sports lotion in the blue tube.


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Re: blah. beware of coppertone sunscreen
Posted by: Forrest
Date: August 05, 2012 01:09AM
I'm referring to the waterproof Sports sunscreen (blue tube) in my post
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Re: blah. beware of coppertone sunscreen
Posted by: N-OS X-tasy!
Date: August 05, 2012 03:03PM
I used a tube of that for the first time yesterday - guess I'll have to wait and see what happens. We have a water softener installed in our home, so maybe it'll be OK.


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Re: blah. beware of coppertone sunscreen
Posted by: M A V I C
Date: August 05, 2012 05:44PM
All this occurred before washing the clothes. The showers I had been in were well water, so I probably had lot of iron on my skin that was released with sweat. I'll look into Magica.

I have usually used the sports stuff in the blue bottles. This time it was a spray because, camping, my hands were usually dirty and often had a lot of sand on them. So it was easier to spray. I still have sections of my legs that I've scrubbed a half dozen times and can't get it off.



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