How to Help Active Families Protect Their Skin

This post was sponsored by Banana Boat. My opinion is all my own and it is also truthful. 

Healthy activity daily leads to better physical and mental health. That’s simply not negotiable here. In the summer, our active lifestyle revolves around martial arts, regular workouts and swimming and in the winter it revolves around indoor workouts and ski season.

Active families like mine are out and about in winter and summer, and it’s important to ensure the safety and health of the skin no matter what you’re doing. In our case, right now we are doing a lot of sports, swimming, walking, biking, hiking, horseback riding lessons, or even just hanging out in the backyard jumping in the pool and grilling up delicious dinner.

In the summer and fall months too we’re out in the sun. We need several things when we are being active outdoors. Water, headphones, family and reliable sunscreen that can stand up to the sun and stay put while we are swimming, hiking or travelling.

Here’s a little snapshot of our summer routine.

Ainsley, my youngest daughter, just finished horseback riding lessons and a dressage competition. When your warmup is outdoors before heading into the ring on a day without a cloud in the sky, you better have a lot of water and a reliable sunscreen with you. We came home with a second place ribbon, a lot of memories and NO sunburn.

In a couple of days my older daughter starts her summer job as a counsellor at day camp and my youngest is doing summer drama camp for two weeks. After that we are both traveling for a bit. Both of my girls will be outside often for a large part of every day, which means they need sunscreen handy. We send them each with their own bottle of sunscreen labelled so it doesn’t get lost.

And when they are at work or camp, I’m working out and also working. In the nice weather I often make the backyard deck my office.  One of the benefits of working for yourself. The patio umbrella gives me shade and Banana Boat sunscreen protects my skin. Running around town picking kids up and dropping them off is a sweaty job. Happily Banana Boat’s Simply Protect Sport Sunscreen Spray stays put.

Sun Protection That Goes as Hard as We Do

Banana Boat’s Simply Protect line of sunscreen can stand up to the rigours of our active lifestyle, works well, and contains 25% fewer ingredients than other sunscreens. That means its safer for our skin, overall. Their products contain no added oils or fragrances which make them easier on our skin. That’s a big plus for me. We switched to Banana Boat Simply Protect Sport Sunscreen Spray, this season and it’s working well.

Banana Boat Sport Sunscreen Spray

This product is tailor-made for active families. Its water and sweat resistant formula provides lightweight, safe and effective broad-spectrum UVA/UVB protection without harmful ingredients, so it can protect us no matter what we’re doing. The biggest bonus for me is that it protects us without adding in things that I don’t want on my families skin. Another bonus is that its water and sweat protection lasts up to 80 minutes, which means we have to reapply it less often.

Sun Protection for Active Families is Easy with Banana Boat

So far, Banana Boat has been everything my family needs and then some. I love the peace of mind I have knowing that when we put on their Simply Protect Sport Sunscreen Spray, my family is protected from the sun’s harmful rays more effectively than anything else we’ve ever used. And I don’t have to obsess quite so much on how often we put it on.

Perfect for Active Families

The Banana Boat Simply Protect Sunscreen line is perfect for active families. I recommend it. If you’re an on-the-go family (or even if you’re not) I highly encourage you to give it a try. It’s a game-changer for active families.