My husband is a welder. He works nine plus hours a day with …uhm.. hot stuff! He wears welders grade suntan lotion (it’s not actually called suntan lotion, but basically, that’s what it is) on his face and also has a Miller helmet that completely covers his face. Because the helmet is auto darkening ,and has a point eight, or something like that, reaction time, he doesn’t even need to lift his visor to tack his parts. (tacking is putting tiny beads of wealdment on two parts to hold them together while the welder prepares to make one long continuous weld)

So tell me why the man manages to come home from work at least once a week with a sunburn? Oh sorry, a welders burn? That would be because on those days he neglects to put his Welder’s block on. Yeah. Dummy. So for days afterwards, he has a cherry red face and neck, and then for days after that, his face peels! It’s gross, to tell the truth, and it is SO preventable!

I keep telling him that he needs to take better care of himself becuase when he is older, if he keeps repeatedly burning his face, he will have leathery skin like those old ladies on the beach who spend too much time in the sun! And when his face peels I am always on his case to use an exfoliate for a little mini microdermabrasion, but he keeps ignoring me!

(and secretly, it pisses me off to no end that he doesn’t seem to give a damn what he looks liek! have a little self pride, man! Sheesh!)

I am pretty sure that skin cancer is not a risk from him burning his face at work, I think it;s the UV rays from the sun, not the actual burn that causes that, but he WILL age prematurely if he deosn’t start taking better care of himself!