written by Fee73 on 13/08/2013
We purchased P20 (Factor 30) for our 10 year old son to take on holiday to Turkey this year. I am absolutely horrified by the results and will be contacting Riemann directly.
We applied the spray correctly and gave it an hour to soak in rather than the recommended 15 mins before going into sun. According to the instructions it provides 10 hours protection. Our son played in the pool for a few hours and wore a t-shirt between 11.30am and 3pm. The poor soul had the most horrendous sunburn on his shoulders which blistered badly and ruined his holiday. My husband and I also burned using this product and I already had lightly tanned skin.
The solution evaporates very quickly on the skin so its easy to miss bits (although we made sure we covered our son in it), smells very alcoholy and stings eyes when used on the face. We used a different manufacturer Factor 30 for the remainder of the holiday and had no problems at all. We also met 2 other people on holiday who had a similar experience with this product. It just isn't what it used to be years ago and we won't ever be using it again!
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