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NOW CLOSED Are you are applying enough sun cream on yourself & your kids? We want to put this to the test! MNers needed to attend event in London on Wed 25 April - £100 of goodies + travel

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TheOtherHelenMumsnet · 13/04/2012 17:15

Entries close 9am Weds 18 April.

We've been asked by the folks at Garnier Ambre Solaire to find 3 MNers and their child(ren) who would be able and willing to go along to a special event in London on Wednesday 25 April from 10am – 5pm. The event is designed to showcase how much or how little sun lotion we apply and how much we should be applying.

Attendees will be asked to apply lotion as they would normally and then to be filmed in a special tent using a special camera which can highlight all the bits which have been missed and analyse where more lotion (or less) is needed.

The team at Ambre Solaire will then make a film about the day and this will be shown on Mumsnet, and other media channels as required - please note there will be a big promotion on the back of the film so please only apply if you are happy to star in this film and have your child(ren) filmed and be seen!

Ambre Solaire have asked that children be filmed wearing beachwear (shorts or swim suit, a T-shirt & sun-hat) and for at least one Mumsnetter to wear beach style clothing too (though you won't need to travel to the event in your cossie!) so please only apply if you are happy to do this or happy for your child(ren) to be filmed.

The team at Ambre Solaire will then make a film about the day and this will be shown on Mumsnet, and other media channels described in the full T&C's.

This is a chance to learn about sun protection for your family - and we would also want you to add your feedback to a thread on Mumsnet to share what you have learnt.

In return for attending each Mum will receive a gift box of Garnier products to the value of RRP£100 and lunch will be served. You will also receive up to £150 in travel expenses.

Apologies - we realise this is a normal school day and that this may mean older children will be unlikely to be able to attend. We are looking for a mix of folks to attend - maybe you could come with pre school-aged children. The event is only suitable for children who are aged 3+years.

This promises to be an amazing event with a few surprises during the session - as well as an opportunity to learn about skin protection in a unique way.
If you'd like to attend please add your details and complete the following questionnaire here.

No purchase necessary. Entries close 9am Wednesday 18 April 2012. Offer open to UK & ROI residents only, aged 18 and over. See full Terms & Conditions here.

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StickingLaboutin · 13/04/2012 23:26

Done. I am interested to see if I really do use enough cream on the kids and me. I'm paranoid about those fiddly bits like the tops of ears and hair parting on scalps.

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southeastastra · 13/04/2012 23:28

this sunscreen thing is bonkers imo

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LongStory · 14/04/2012 00:12

agreed. I'm sure my son is allergic to most sunscreens as he gets all puffy after I put on most brands, and I dread to think what chemicals they contain. I build up their tolerance to sun thoughtfully through the season and rarely use the stuff. They're lovely and brown by the end of the summer but in 12 years with 5 children we've never once had a case of sunburn. One of my relatives' sons is scared to go outdoors without it on.

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FrankWippery · 14/04/2012 00:29

Done it. I like to think after living in Southern Spain for the best part of the last decade I am pretty sun aware, so would be very interested to see if my slippery child sun creaming skills are up to scratch Grin

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Valpollicella · 14/04/2012 00:41

Garnier... You' d get a far more representative group of parents and children if you did a sat session for this. Limiting it to 3-4 yo who dont go to nursery in the morning is a pretty small demographic.

Plus I wouldbe interested to see if parents apply the same level of sunscreen cover to a 3 yo as they do to a 7yo, for example

Just saying....

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FrankWippery · 14/04/2012 00:51

Good point Val. Personally, I would apply it more frequently to an older child than my 3 year old - from experience they are certainly in and out of the pool far more often than the smalls.

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jomidmum · 14/04/2012 08:07

Why don't you post it on the home ed page? There are loads of parents on there of older children who have no restriction of school times Smile

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AnnMumsnet · 14/04/2012 10:21

thanks for those who have applied so far and for the comments....ideally this would have been in school holidays but time was against us....good point re home ed - will see what I can do! thanks.

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bronze · 14/04/2012 11:26

Will they also be testing vitamin levels?

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bronze · 14/04/2012 11:30

Bloody phone... vitamin d levels too

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tiredandbusy · 14/04/2012 11:53

Some time in the sun for vitamin D then a t shirt and hat??? Simple.

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spammertime · 15/04/2012 11:44

Sorry for thread hijack, but having seen a close family friend die of skin cancer because they had "the sort of skin that just goes brown", and who never got sunburnt in his life, I would totally disagree that building things up gradually is the way to go.

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trinot · 15/04/2012 13:16

What a surprise...a suncream company wants you to use more suncream...what people need to apply is some common sense. I live on the west coast of scotland, where we have very little sun and I use very little suncream on my olive skinned child. On my fair child, I use much, much more...she burns instantly. If I lived in Australia I would use far more suncream on both of my children. Like so many health issues, for example how much water we should drink, a company has used scaremongering to get us to buy more of their product. Wake up people, wake up mumsnet...you are being used

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whomovedmychocolate · 15/04/2012 13:48

I'm up for it and will wear a sarongy thing or shorts (bad idea) or a swimming cossie and shorts providing I am only shown in motion (actually the motion goes on when I stop so it may take a while) Wink DS will merrily dance in his swimmies for the price of a bag of buttons!

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AliceHurled · 15/04/2012 16:16

I wonder whether they'll conclude that people don't use enough and need to buy more of their suncream.

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BlackEyed · 15/04/2012 19:34

That is clearly the aim Alice which is why this sort of thing makes me uncomfortable, especially with the increased cases of rickets and vitamin d defincancy.

The last thing parents need is to be scared into giving kids even less sun exposure. Let's face it a suncream company is hardly going to tell parents to use less, let their children have access to the vital vitamin d contained in sunshine and stop panicking about keeping them covered 24/7. They aim to make money after all.

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naturalbaby · 15/04/2012 21:26

I'd love to but not sure what I would do with my 2yr old and 1yr old?

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AliceHurled · 15/04/2012 21:33

Exactly blackeyed.

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QOD · 15/04/2012 22:06

Shame, my 13 yr old would have loved being filmed whilst we bickered about sun cream!

(she puts far too much on)

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PoppaRob · 16/04/2012 04:45

Chiming in as an Aussie and ex surf life saver... whatever you're using is probably a third of what you should be using. Granted we have more exposure to UV here than you Brits do, but the recommendation is 30ml (a teaspoonful) per leg, 15ml per arm, 30ml for the torso and 15ml for the head. I guess that's why we Aussies buy the stuff in pump packs! Brands like Banana Boat are popular, but the supermarket stuff is cheaper, and if it's cheaper you'll use something closer to the proper amount. And remember water and sweat wash the stuff off, so pop some more on every hour... unless of course you know for a fact that you're immune to skin cancer and/or you find skin that looks like old leather attractive.

We teach schoolkids here "Slip Slop Slap Seek Slide". Slip on a shirt, slop on sunscreen, slap on a hat, seek shade and slide on sunglasses.

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PoppaRob · 16/04/2012 04:52

@naturalbaby - We use a roll-on SPF30 sunscreen for sensitive skin on my grand-daughter. Easy to apply and it applies easily so you can get good coverage. If she's going to be in the sun for more than 20 minutes or so she has a long sleeved t-shirt and longish shorts on too. Even at daycare and playgroups they follow a national "no hat - no play" policy.

@QOD - Chances are she actually puts the right amount on. Buy her a pump pack and let her use as much as she wants. Each squirt from a pump pack is about the 30ml (teaspoonful) you want.

When I was a kid putting a seatbelt on seemed a hassle but we got used to it and it saved lives. From the 80s onwards we Aussies became more sunsmart and slopping on sunscreen seems as natural as wearing a seatbelt.

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FrothingBeserker · 16/04/2012 11:12

um, a teaspoonful is 5ml. 30ml is about 2 tablespoonfuls.

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QuintessentialShadows · 16/04/2012 12:44

Next you know, Sunlotion will come with free fish oil capsules. Wink

I imagine: Eye Q and Ambre solaire team up to give a low cost solution to vitamin d deficiency: subscribe to our annual pack, sunlotion plus omega3 in summer, moisturizer plus omega 3 in winter. Only £300 per year.

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Molybdenum · 16/04/2012 18:45

This is disgraceful in a country with an epidemic of vitamin D deficiency!

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PoppaRob · 17/04/2012 01:52

Thanks frothing"... Then make that 5ml. We used to pump sunscreen into a teaspoon and show the kids that was the amount to use for each limb etc. to make the point. A tablespoonful and the poor nippers would be drowned in the stuff! :)

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