Caregiver comparison of Dr. Smith's Adult Barrier Spray to current products
Do you think using Dr. Smith’s
Adult Barrier Spray has improved
your facility’s quality of care?
mature market by increasing ease-of-use, improving therapeutic
efficacy and increasing overall user and patient satisfaction.
Patient/user compliance also
extends into the area of O-T-C
self-care products including
sunscreens and antifungal treatments,
both of which now have
spray formats that substantially
aid user compliance.
Sunscreens are an important
drug in the prevention of skin
cancer and the signs of aging.
The American Cancer Society
reports one person dies of
melanoma every 54 minutes3
with a UK study reporting that
about 86% of melanomas can
be attributed to exposure to
ultraviolet (UV) radiation from
the sun.4 Despite these risks, in
a 2010 study, only one third of
adults reported regularly applying
a sunscreen of SPF 15 or higher5
with more than one third of the
population reporting experiencing
sunburns in the previous year.6
With these types of statistics, it is
easy to see that consumers are in
ongoing need of new approaches
to sun care and for products that
are easy to use and well-suited to
their individual lifestyles.
Almost two decades ago, the
introduction of sunscreen sprays
changed the sun care market in
highly substantive ways, creating
a new array of consumer-friendly
formats (mousse, lotion sprays and whipped
lotion) with new product benefits (cooling, low grease skin feel
aesthetics, wet skin application and more). Since then, these products
have been formulated for increasingly segmented consumer
groupings, with the expressed intent of increasing consumer ap-
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Did you prefer Dr. Smith’s
Adult Barrier Spray's method
of application to your previous
barrier cream/ointment?
Caregivers’ recommendation for
Dr. Smith’s Adult Barrier Spray.