Skin Care
Reef-safe sunscreen, zinc sticks, lip balm, after-sun and barrier creams for surfers who spend more time outdoors than is strictly sensible. Brands include Sun Bum, Sun Zapper, Sticky Bumps, Surfers Skin and Reefe. UV off the water at Rest Bay is brutal even on grey days, and winter surfs in Porthcawl leave faces looking like they have gone ten rounds with a cheese grater.
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Surf Skin Care for the Welsh Coast
UV off water burns through clouds
Plenty of people get caught out because the sun is not shining, not realising that UV reflects off the sea and catches the underside of your chin and the back of your neck. Reef-safe zinc stays on through a two-hour session, which normal high street sunscreen absolutely does not.
Winter face, summer face, always lips
Cold offshore wind and salt water do a number on skin between October and March. Barrier creams keep wind burn off, after-sun sorts you out in July, and lip balm is the one thing everyone forgets until their bottom lip splits. Sun Bum, Sun Zapper, Sticky Bumps, Surfers Skin and Reefe cover all of it.
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Tested on Rest Bay mornings
We use most of this ourselves, which is the main reason it is on the shelf. If a zinc turns to porridge after one session or a lip balm vanishes in ten minutes, it does not get reordered.