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Don’t Get Burned by Your Sunscreen


Published July 2, 2008

The plight of 6-year-old Emily Crawley and her little sister, Claire, 3, has brought the safety of sunscreens into question. The girls’ mother, Michelle, a self-proclaimed sunscreen “freak,” slathered her daughters with sunscreen as usual when the Ohio family recently vacationed in Key Largo, Florida. Unfortunately, the girls soon became “fried beyond belief.” Click here to read this post.