One of the least effective mineral-based brands tested by Which?, Clinique Mineral Sunscreen Lotion, which costs £26 for a 125ml bottle, barely provided a third of the claimed SPF level, according to the testing.
Tropic Skin Shade Cream, costing £28 for 200ml, co-owned by Lord Sugar and former Apprentice contestant Susan Ma, barely provided a third of its claimed SPF30 and also failed tests for UVA.
Most high street sunscreens work because they use ingredients that absorb UV rays, whereas mineral sunscreens physically block ultraviolet radiation using ingredients such as titanium dioxide or zinc oxide.
Some mineral sun creams use other ingredients that make them non-biodegradable and environmentally harmful but most genuine mineral-based sunscreens are considered to be safer for the environment.
We are surprised. Environmental woo leads to products that don’t work then, eh? See: “windmills”
Titanium dioxide eh! So give yourself two coats of Wickes brilliant white emulsion & your done. 10l tubs for £20.
Same article came up with an excellent Best Buy from Asda costing just £3.50.
Back in the mists of time Baron Sugar sold well-made low-priced electronics products using the Amstrad brand. Now he makes more dosh flogging £28 sun cream that doesn’t actually work properly.
BiS, also useful as PPE in the event of imminent nuclear armageddon, according to Neil of the Young Ones.
John, I bought one of his ‘HiFi’ stack systems from Rumbelows. The front of the speaker fell off…. “well made low priced electronics” – The only part of that statement that was anywhere near the truth is ‘low priced’…..
And women won’t have to worry about any of this factor 50 bollocks when the mullahs take over…….
Am I alone in being suspicious about the way the increase in suncream use matches the rise in skin cancer? Vover yourself in toxic chemicals and bake it in the sun, what could possibly go wrong? My late wife was a firm believer that a good coating of olive oil made her cook better. No she didn’t get skin cancer.
Addolff
Yeah but then all the Western women will have suntan around the eyes. They’ll all look like The Lone Ranger.
“barely provided a third of its claimed SPF30 and also failed tests for UVA”
Missed a trick – should be advertising its dual Vit D credentials..
I can remember Sugar when he was a one-man-band called Ambit International operating out a room over Brentwood taxis. Miserable cvnt in a striped shirt, no doubt off his old man’s market stall. He was flogging circuit boards would take a couple of TBA810S amplifier chips. A lot of people had difficulty getting those rigs to function…
Addolff
Rumbelows was a bit upmarket for me. I was thinking about the Amstrad IC8000 (mark II for some reason, I doubt there was ever a mark I) amplifier which sold for £18 and was pretty much the only option if you wanted a functional hifi system for well under £100 in the 1970s – probably along with a Garrard SP 25 deck and a pair of Wharfedale Dentons or some Eastern European equivalent. Happy days.
“£26 for a 125ml bottle” … “costing £28 for 200ml”
And they’re a scam, you say? Well I never. Whoever would have guessed?
I watched an interview with one of Amstrad’s former tech blokes recently. I was surprised at how much genuine know-how there was in the company, especially once they started recruiting people from Cambridge for the computer side of things. As he described properly clever product after properly clever product failing in the marketplace during the ’90s, I couldn’t help thinking that it was the brand name that was holding them back. They had a Newton-like device six months before Apple, for example. Now, okay, as the Amstrad guy admitted himself, even the Newton itself was a flop. But if nobody was buying those things from Apple, who was about to buy one from the bloke flogging dodgy stereos through Argos?
The big problem with the Newton was that it claimed/attempted to recognise handwriting well before the technology was ready (I’m not sure it really is, even today). As a result it needed lots of CPU grunt, meaning it was quite bulky and had poor battery life. Then US Robotics (Palm) came along with a device that used a stylised form of handwriting (Graffiti) and was small enough to fit into a shirt pocket and could last a few days on 2xAAAs.