How Sunscreen Was Invented — And ...
How Sunscreen Was Invented — And What People Did Before
Curious Explorer by Cameron Pariseau
S3 · E8
Sep 13, 2026
12:37
Episode notes

What did people do about sunburn before sunscreen existed? This one is a special request for Scottie and her brother Wick, Nate and Emma's beach friends. Join Miss Cam, Nate, and Emma to find out how people protected their skin for thousands of years before anybody could buy a bottle — from olive oil in ancient Greece, to the red clay-and-butter paste of the Himba people of Namibia, to thanaka, the golden bark paste that children in Myanmar have worn for over two thousand years and still wear today. Meet the young climber whose terrible sunburn on a Swiss mountain led to the first real sunscreen, discover that modern sunscreen was invented on a stove in Miami Beach in 1944, see how it's mixed in enormous steel tanks like a giant milkshake, and learn the surprising truth about what sunscreen actually does to sunlight — because it isn't what almost ... 

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