I really wouldn't do this. The important thing is to keep tanning down to a bare minimum. To let your skin burn is just crazy! You'll end up with skin cancers and unnecessary wrinkles. You'll look older than others of the same age because of this. So train yourself to start early and come in by 9:30 a.m. Go back out at 7 p.m. or so. I'm not kidding. Train yourself to use hats and high-spf (45 or higher) products with both UVA and UVB protection. Neutrogena has some very good products. I have one with skin lotion in it and one is a spray-on product. Take it from someone who has had 3 cancerous lesions removed from my face so far. Two of those were MOS surgeries, very time-consuming, often requiring the patient be there most of the day or two days in a row, not counting follow-up visits and walking around with bandages for a while. Just saying...that stuff won't do a darn thing to prevent severe damage to the skin and eventual skin cancers and wrinkles.

You would have to go to your allergy specialist and have them test you for each ingredient, I don't think anyone here would be able to diagnose or know if you are allergic to any specific ingredient. If you just want to try it, Clinique usually lets you sample any product.

Do you mean Cetaphil , and not Cetaphal ? La Mer is on the high end, did you find it was worth the money ?

Our little pug developed mast cell tumors about 8 years ago. The specialist we took him to at a university veterinary school said there was anecdotal support for Vitamin C delaying the growth of the tumors. For the next five years, Pugsly (about 15 lbs.) took at at least 2000 mgs. of vitamin C a day. Ultimately, he redeveloped the cancer, but I will always believe the vitamin C delayed the metastasizing. I'm not recommending that dosage for every dog, but I still give our other little pug at least 500 mg. of Vitamin C daily, just for general health. If you give your dog too much vitamin C, they will "throw it off," i.e., eliminate it through diarrhea/loose bowels and/or vomiting. You can then back off/reduce the dosage. I buy gel capsules of time-released vitamin C (no additives) at a health food store. They are more expensive, but they are easy for the pugs to swallow. I wrap the capsule in a piece of soft cheese. They never turned it down!