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Why dont they make spf 200 sunblock?
  • rozy
    I looked for this on the internet (the INTERNET for crying out loud!) and I couldn't find a single seller. wtf?
  • alchemist
    Next year the FDA will introduce new limits making the maximum allowable claimed SPF50+.  Although before this change was flagged there was certainly a race for ever increasing SPF numbers in the USA.  I can imagine some brand manager demanding an SPF200 product in a new product meeting, so why not...?
    - Cost.  Sunscreen agents are expensive
    - Aesthetics, organic sunscreens feel horible and oily, inorganic suncreens would leave the skin too white
    - Diminishing returns. A SPF15 will block about 94% of UV light, SPF30 97%, SPF50 98%, SPF100 99%




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