How to look after your skin here
What you need to know about the sun, the sea and the cenotes of the Riviera Maya, selling you nothing.
Which sunscreen they'll let you wear in a cenote
Short answer: mineral filter, no oxybenzone, no octinoxate. The long one is below.
Your skin and air conditioning
You live in 80% humidity and your skin feels tight. The explanation is indoors, not outside.
Sunscreen for kids at the beach
How much you actually need, the bits everyone misses, and what protects more than any cream.
What to bring to a cenote
The list they check at the entrance, and what to use instead.
You got burnt: what to do in the first 48 hours
What genuinely calms it, what makes it worse, and the line past which no cream is going to fix this.
How to get sea salt and chlorine off
Why the shower isn't enough, and the order to clean your skin in when you get back from the beach.