suntan
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While there are some ingredients in suntan lotions - like oxybenzone - that can cause environmental damage to coral reefs, there is not evidence to suggest it poses a risk to humans, Dr McCann says.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2025
Marker, who also surfs, plays guitar and rides motorcycles, is 63 going on 16, with silver hair and a skate-park suntan.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2025
Edgewell Personal Care Co., the maker of Schick blazers and Banana Boat suntan lotion, has trimmed certain varieties of its anti-bacteria wipes Wet Ones, among others.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 12, 2024
“People go into the gift shop early in the trip to buy suntan lotion, a hat, and browse,” he said.
From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2023
I thought I could cure diabetes by spreading suntan lotion on sticks of chewing gum.
From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris
But the return of pleasant weather this year could bring more than suntans as the deluges provided fertile ground for mosquitoes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 6, 2023
“They have the best suntans you’ve ever seen in your life,” said Kasen’s mom, Katie Wenzel, 45, who runs a local restaurant and motel.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 27, 2021
The people who lived here before me danced in Bourbon Street clubs; the balcony was for suntans.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 12, 2019
Bling, suntans and Florida and New York are in.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 8, 2017
It made me happy, but I kept wondering about next spring, about whether khaki, or suntans or whatever the uniform of the season was, had this aura of promise in it.
From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles
NOV 2008: Berlusconi hails Barack Obama as "handsome, young and also suntanned", after he was elected the United States' first Black president.
From Reuters ● Jun. 12, 2023
Ylva is everything that Faye’s not: thin, suntanned, engaged in meaningful work.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2020
Alas, it is in fact Dame Joan’s husband Percy, the famous Percy, who is suntanned, jolly and very amused that I have mistaken him for the PR guy.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 2, 2018
The smiling, suntanned participants joined sessions on team-building and learned how to collectively protect and promote the rights of patients and drug users to humane medical and social treatment, including ST.
From Slate ● May 22, 2017
Especially now, she might have added, after surviving his manly shipboard adventure: He was suntanned and lean muscled, and hummed sea chanteys under his breath in the moonlight....
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
At this time of year, a person can go ice fishing and recline, shirtless, by the hole, suntanning from reflecting light.
From Scientific American ● Nov. 18, 2019
But what about addiction to suntanning, bodybuilding, fortune telling, or love?
From Slate ● Aug. 31, 2015
"I'm an evangelist against this foolish suntanning habit," says U.C.L.A.
From Time Magazine Archive
How else to explain such an affinity for one-hour photo developing, instant replay, touch- tone phones and suntanning parlors?
From Time Magazine Archive
The students spent the entire hour speaking in French about suntanning.
From "Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High" by Melba Pattillo Beals
