I love the sun, but it doesn’t love me back. I have a sun allergy called PMLE (Polymorphous Light Eruption) and if I don’t wear this one particular sunscreen from Eucerin, by day two of warm weather vacations I start getting a rash of tiny red dots on my skin. It doesn’t hurt or itch, it just looks odd, and it takes about two weeks to go away. So, I make sure to slather on my special sunscreen anytime I’m in the sun.
But by day four I noticed my skin was really itchy. I didn’t have any red dots, so I wrote it off as my sun allergy finding a new way to annoy me. I carried on and tried to ignore it, but my skin started to feel a bit tacky too. Awesome.
And then it hit me. Maybe the new lotion I picked up for the trip was irritating my skin. I grabbed the travel-size bottle out of the shower and located my cheater readers to see if there was some obvious sign that I should stop using it.
Not really… until I focused on the teeny tiny almost translucent print at the bottom of the bottle.
