Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

Be very, very careful with this lotion. I started using it at the beginning of the summer, and it is fine as far as moisturizer goes. However, this summer my skin has burned more frequently than ever--no matter what kind of sunblock I wore, or how frequently I put it on, or how little time I spent in the sun, I burned. Couldn't figure out why. I've gone through three different brands of sunblock, worn long sleeves and jeans, even curtailed my outdoor activities. It didn't occur to me that this lotion could be the cause of the problem until I happened to catch the "Sun Alert" on the back label (you can see it if you enlarge the label picture, which I didn't before buying it). Apparently it increases sensitivity to the sun for as much as a week after using it. Darned alpha-hydroxy acids. My own fault, I just think of body lotion as a pretty "safe" product to use--like shampoo or deodorant, I'm not eating it or smearing it on my eyeballs, so I usually feel pretty confident that I can get away without reading the safety warnings. Not so with this lotion. I shudder to think how much damage I have done to my skin in the few months that I've used it. No amount of softening can undo the UV damage, so the moisturizing aspect is a pretty poor tradeoff for the increased sun sensitivity.