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Mon 07 Jul 2007Value for money: sun creamsDr Hauschka Skin Care Sun screen, €17.35 for 100ml, €173.50 per litre.Highs:Bought in a health food store, this sun cream has a natural-sounding ingredient list, complete with avocado oil, ice plant (whatever that is), and quince seed.It promises a "caring, calming" effect, but whatever about that, it smells good enough to eat and if it weren't such a Homer Simpson thing to do we would have tasted it. It absorbs into the skin completely and quickly and is not at all greasy.