body lotion, skin creamsWe live in Phoenix where the sun is incredibly intense summer and winter. Our winters are wonderful and we get lots of visitors from the frozen north and having enough body lotion and skin creams to help them avoid sunburn and dry skin is number one on our priority list. Today when searching for effective body lotions, I ran across this SPF 50 sunscreen stick, called Academie Women Very High Protection Sun Stick SPF 50, and ordered several. I will encourage all our winter visitors to use it. Sometimes they like to sit on the patio in the full winter sun and come back in with hefty sunburns that must hurt a lot. Fortunately, I have a big patch of aloe vera growing in the front yard that helps take the sting out, but avoiding the sunburn in the first place by using body lotion and skin creams loaded with SPF are the best defense.

People who live here full time have several things that they always have along with them, no matter what: drinking water and sunscreen. Virtually every car on the road has a bottles of water for the passengers and a separate one for the car's radiator. People don't set foot into the swimming pool without their SPF body lotion on if they're swimming during the day in the heat of the summer.

Finding SPF 50 is not easy so when I found this online at Tegans Corner Store located at  www.teganscornerstore.ispeedway.com, I immediately ordered it. I feel a certain responsibility to our guests to make sure that they have a fun and healthy stay at our home. After someone uses this SPF stick, I'll just wipe it with hand sanitizer and it will last a long time. It's so much fun to have winter visitors and residents of Phoenix can almost always tell who is a native and who is a visitor by their pale skin.

Many of the visitors have a single goal of going back home with a tan. Most sunscreens and body lotions with SPF protection do let people tan but not burn. We joke around about the weather they left and what they'll be going back to, so having a tan in the middle of winter is a reminder of the good times they had here and that their weather will not always be as cold as it is in the winter. When we talk to them in the summer, however, it's their turn to have bragging rights.