Sunscreen wasn't invented yet when I was a kid! It was baby oil and iodine for us. Burned like crazy.
Because of baking myself silly back then, I now have to stay out of the sun as much as possible and use sunscreen daily for the protection. Must admit, my skin looks a lot better than many who worship the sun. Guess there are some good things, like not many wrinkles.
We had those brown bottles of coppertone. I don't think it even had a number on it like they do today. It couldn't have been more than 4 though. I think it was basically just lotion.
Coppertone, That is the only thing I remember, but I do not think that came out till the sixties, first commercial I remember seeing. If I remember right than it wasn't made for sunburn but made to help you tan faster. Looked it up was 1960, introduced it first sunless tanning product. But the product has been around since 1940, developed but not produced. The 50s there was a lot of legal litigation about it going on. after that it is all history.
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We didn't even know about sunscreen when I was a kid. No one was trying to block the sun, they were always trying to find ways to speed up getting a tan.
It was baby oil and iodine for us. Burned like crazy. 
Sounds like an old-timer! Course I don't use it either....
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