As Olympians toil under the French sun, it's a little-known fact that one of the very first sunscreens was invented half a world away in Adelaide.
Little known to most, they were benefiting from research undertaken in Australia, where one of the world's first commercial sunscreens was manufactured — complete with a splash of French perfume to make it smell "delightful".
"By today's reckoning … it would have had an SPF rating of two, so not superb, but better than nothing," Dr Dawes told "They'd bought some very expensive French perfume to put in this product, so they had to squeeze it all back out of the tubes again and have another go the next night.German physician Dr Paul Unna had developed a sunscreen from chestnut extract and sold it in 1910, but Milton, who had started signing his name as H. A. Milton, began selling "Hamilton's Sunburn Vanishing Cream" in 1932.
So, they started going from house to house, expanding their range to include household products like fly spray, indigestion powder, bath salts and antiseptics. For example, SPF50+ means it will take 50 times longer for your skin to burn than it would without sunscreen."That's in part because of research done by Gordon Groves and Don Robertson, who discovered it wasn't just UVB that caused burning, but UVA as well.Finding broad spectrum
The family eventually sold Hamilton Laboratories in 2010, which had continued to operate from Flinders Street in Adelaide.Margaret said Richard had collected everything along the way, historical documents, research findings, old documents, and even the minutes of the fledgling company's first meeting in 1932.
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