Banana Boat Ultra Mist KIDS Tear Free SPF50 Review

     Its always lovely here in Florida, even in the winter and that is my problem. I am middle aged, semi red-headed, freckled. In other words, sun intollerant. Hence, my use of childrens' sunscreens. The latest I tried was the Banaba Boat brand for children in the ultra mist. Which was a sought after feature because a lot of the time when I am needing to use the sunscreen I am alone. And in this respect I thought I was on the right track breaking from my usual "pink bottle" which tends to make me break out, but does keep me from being burned. My mistake.

     It began sunday morning when the usual whining to be taken to the community pool burst from my daughter, which means that I have to either sit under an umbrella (for lack of shade poolside) or grease myself up like the highly sought after pig at the county fair.I decided to go with greased and swim for a change to my daughters delight and utter astonishment. I used the Banana Boat Kids SPF 50 Ultra Fine Mist that morning. The spray was lacking on "mist" and heavy on runny and I ended up needing my daughter to smear it to eveness on my back anyways. I was pleased to see "very water resistent" directly on the front of the bottle and I was excited that it didnt seem too heavy or greasy and was looking forward to a few hours of play time with minimal reapplication while we were there.

No such luck. Not only is it not very water resistent, it left a trail in the water till it was gone and seemed to evaporate directly away. I am not saying that it wasnt there, it just wasn't on me. I had waited the expected twenty minutes before going swimming as the directions said,(what other person reads that far down a label but thoes desperate for coverage?) but after about twenty minutes I could feel the burn begining on my face which never even touched water. After a half hour I got out, toweled off and reapplied the product, waited another twenty minutes then went back in. No luck. It just didn't seem to work where pools are concerned. So....I gave it a dry run poolside while I waited for my girl to be done. No luck there either. What I didn't sweat off immediately didn't seem to work and I retired home with a not-quite-sizzling sunburn but a burn none the less, and two days of sun-sickness after for this sunscreen trial. I guess I am back to the pink bottle and breakouts. .