I use 2 bottles each per week but we go in august and spend all day in the sun

Hi for the children I personally would go for factor 50. The sun is very harsh. How much to take is a difficult one as it really depends on the product. Some are water proof and some not. Some say you only need to apply once a day. I normally take Piz Buin for me and use 3 different factors in 2 weeks.

I normally start off at 25 and go down to 8 / 12. Again this is personal as everyones skin tone differs.

thanks for that think i,ll pop to boots as they do a sun tan lotion with mossie repellant for the kids and make it a factor 50,annie x

Annie - just a point about the sunlotion with mozzie repellent, it's not as effective as seperate sun lotion and repellent, plus, sun lotion needs to be well rubbed into the skin; repellent shouldn't be rubbed in. We use a spray repellent and also spray around ankles/wrists on clothes with it (but only on clothes we don't mind risk staining!)

The sunsuits are brilliant but we had to keep appying suncream to bare parts very regularly as our little one was in & out of water constantly.

Jameos

thanks jameos,was thinking about the biting flys but maybe stick to lotion and separate mossie spray and those wrist bands,

I found the Soltan range for kids to be very good. I used factor 50 on my extremely pale son(takes after his dad!). He was in the pool for hours on end and never burnt once in the weeks that we were there.(went in june and august)

I agree with Jameos get the mosquito spray instead of using the suncream. I thought the mosquito's only ventured out of a night?? Am I wrong??

no but someone on here mentioned biting flys during day think it might of been bex ,when we went to dominican republic kids needed those mossie wrist bands and i used combination sun lotion/mossie repellant as sand flys were as bad as mossies,annie

Hi there

Don't know if it would be available way down south were you are but we have a shop called Bodycare which is selling Ambre Solaire ranging from F50 - F10) for £2.99 a bottle - can't beat that for a bargain can you?

Laura x

thanks everyone,just spent a fortune in tescos for sun products,but did get nivea sun tan lotion factor 50 for kids and 30 for hubby it was buy one get one free but still spent on mossie stuff,magic cool spray for prickly heat etc so am well prepared for hols cant afford to buy anything else now to end of month and know just this stuff will weigh 15kg lol,but hey we have one holiday a year so will enjoy,thanks again