 Poster: A snowHead
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Is it cheaper to buy sun screen here, or once we're over there. It's been a while since i was skiing in the alps and i've forgotten where's cheapest. 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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HERE! You get screwed over half way up a mountain !
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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shoogly, I usually buy mine here (but then I work in a pharmacy). If I forget, there'a loads out there.
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Tesco's or Boots when there is a 3 for 2 offer.
Never buy the branded stuff
Nadenoodlee, sounds like fun 
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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One thing I would say is that the French pharmacy products although wildly expensive do the job really well!
I would especially recommend the aftersuns which turned me from beetroot one evening to normal in the morning after a few applications and must have worked because it stung too! 
Last edited by Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do. on Thu 1-02-07 13:44; edited 1 time in total
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Try online first.
If you buy it offline, then try the BOGOF specials at Boots, Tesco etc.
Buy the best brand, and the highest factor, you can afford. One should never economize on sun protection.
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Whitegold, never had a problem with Tesco's or Boots own - seems to the job equally as well as the pricey stuff. And I burn easily so would be the first to know if it didn't !
Agree about the high factor
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'Lipsalve' UK price £2.50
La Plagne Centre in the Pharmacy €7
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My top tip: buy stuff which doesn't bring you out in an oozing rash all over your face.
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Boots do a squashy pack that fits in a pocket and is plenty for a week of faces! Factor 30 at least 
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Piz Buin Mountain Cream is brilliant.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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but if you buy here don't pack it in your carry-on when flying if it's more than 100ml as otherwise the gate staff will be having it...fear of you whipping it out mixing it with your lip salve and hey-presto an instant thermonuclear device...
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You know it makes sense.
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Snowy, not with the Piz Buin stuff you don't.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Boots are doing a BOGOF on Ambre Solaire Ski products at the moment but i agree with Helen Beaumont, Piz Buin is the best around
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Poster: A snowHead
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I find it's cheapest to forget to buy sun-screen. If I need it, someone I'm skiing with is bound to have some. 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Just get a balaclava
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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I reckon Piz Buin is as good as it gets. But other reputable makes are OK. Despite price, I don't like big tubes - they are more to carry with you when you are skiing.
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I have recently stocked up on No7 suncream. I wouldn't normally buy this as it's expensive, but due to a glitch in Boots lately, I managed to get 6 bottles for the price of 1!! Bargain. I bought 6 of the factor 25 face one-it's a ncie little squeezy tube that'll be perfect for the slopes
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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achilles, yep, me too. But do you know where to get some lip stuff - I like the taste and broke my last one !
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Here - I suss out the shops round about March, and get the highest factor I can for the best offer/price I can find, regardless of brand - Often do a BOGOF or 3 for 3 in boots, superdrugs or tescos. I also don't worry too much about them being a year or so out of date if they don't get used - they still seem to work, and when I look at the ingredients I can't see a good reason why they should go off - I've never been burned by an out of date one yet, but I see plenty of folks burned by the price that some seem prepared to shell out. Cheapest we ever got was in pound stretchers, F35 and it seemed to do as good a job as any other
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As for lip stuff, I treat myself to Elizabeth Arden 8 hour lip balm in the airport. The lads get whatever is about, but funnily enough, it is my lip balm that always disappears.
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lampbus, I use Piz Buin sun lipstick. Can't say I've got high on the taste.
Helen Beaumont, It's OK for you to ask for Elizabeth Arden lip balm. The lads couldn't possibly. Obviously, it's OK to con some off you, once you've bought it.
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achilles, obviously, and it does taste nice. IF I buy the tinted ones though, strangely enough, no-one uses them. 
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made the mistake of only using sunscreen on the first morning. My face is now v.red and peeling and I have huge cold sores on my lip and chin. That'll lern me 
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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halfhand, that's very nasty. Use aloe gel and E45 (or other unperfumed moisturiser) on it.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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halfhand, try some Johnsons baby lotion. when my mum got 3rd degree burns from the sun, the doctor told her this was the best thing-it works a treat
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A word of warning - I used up a bottle last summer from the previous year and got very burnt - it must have been past its sell by date but no dates on bottles. Safer to buy new every year.
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You know it makes sense.
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halfhand, Consider Biafine, if you are in a French resort. When I had bad sunburn - a long time ago - it was available in France without prescription, and very effective.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Grow a beard, its free
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Poster: A snowHead
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| Helen Beaumont wrote: |
| IF I buy the tinted ones |
Good tactic there! 
I just get stuff from tesco or whatever - i do buy Labello lip balm in resort tho - it's worth the money, brill stuff.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Jeraff, I shall try that immediately.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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€11 for a 20ml pocket tube of lippy/slop in my local shop
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The boots kids stuff (f30) in squishy packets is great and usually £1 a pack on a special offer - fits in any pocket to take out on the slopes with you too.
aj xx
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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try P20 which is a liquid you put on 30 minutes before going outside and it bonds to your skin, doesnt sweat off and is great stuff. i think you can buy on line but dont have a link
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| Helen Beaumont wrote: |
| Snowy, not with the Piz Buin stuff you don't. |
I have bought Piz Buin mountain cream from both terminal 4 Heathrow and Manchester Arndale Boots stores...honest!
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I bought mine from Tesco - the SPF25 ski product (in a small tube). Smelt lovely (very Hawaain Tropic and skin seemed to like it too. Then Nivea lipscreen.
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If going on plane, why not buying Lancaster from the airport. Their lipbalm, water resistant and SPF 25 and facial cream are wonderful. Add in the basket their Tan Maximizer after sun in gel form (not creme apaisante) which you can use for face after the day out. That should do the trick.
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Buy it in the summer from tesco when its 3 for 2. then xfer to a small container when on piste.
By the time I have hat , helmet goggles etc on you dont really need very much anyway!
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