Sunscreen

sbkline

Well-Known Member
We're down to two weeks until our trip now and I've been meaning to get the sunscreen out and put it in the backroom with all the other stuff that I've put back there for the trip. My wife told me that there's usually an expiration date on sunscreen, but when I got it out of the closet this morning, I saw no date. The only date I saw was on the bottom of the label, with the manufacturing info, and it had 2000 down as the date of manufacture. I saw no expiration date, though. Generally, how long is sunscreen good for? Something tells me, however, that this one is past its time, because when I shook it, it sounded like a bottle of water, instead of the thick, creamy stuff that sunscreen usually is. :lol: But just for future reference, or for any other bottles of sunscreen that we still have in our home, how long are they usually good for?

And, as a sidenote, I took the cap off and smelled the bottle, and I'll add that to the list of wonderful smells that you associate with a WDW trip. I see threads like that periodically, and just smelling that bottle made me think we were in our hotel room getting ready for a day at the parks! :D
 

George

Liker of Things
A conservative rule of thumb is to get new sunscreen every year. However, your experiment is a pretty good test. If the sunscreen is very runny it will almost certainly not be as effective. I would buy a new bottle.
 
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swimmom

Well-Known Member
I've used sunscreens that are a couple of years old without any problems, but I wouldn't take the chance on one that was manufactured in 2000. You don't want to ruin your vacation - buy a new bottle.
 
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