tips to protect skin

Here are some tips to enjoy the great outdoors while protecting your skin and eyes from sun damage.
Wear sunscreen with an SPF of at least 15 every day, even on cloudy days and when you don't plan on spending much time outdoors. Wearing sunscreen every day is essential because as much as 80% of sun exposure is incidental — the type you get from walking your dog or eating lunch outside. If you don't want to wear a pure sunscreen, try a moisturizer with sunscreen in it, but make sure you put on enough.
Use a broad-spectrum sunscreen that blocks both UVA and UVB rays. Ideally, it should also be hypoallergenic and noncomedogenic so it doesn't cause a rash or clog your pores and give you acne.

blotchiness, wrinkles, and melanoma

Continued exposure to the sun and UV rays can cause wrinkles, brown age spots, blotchiness, and leathery-older looking skin, and UVA rays can cause melanoma which is a deadly skin cancer that if not treated can spread to organs and other pars of the body.
That data makes you think twice before tanning in the sun! It sure gave me a lot to think about!

skin cancer epidemic

I didn't know skin cancer was considered an epidemic! wow, I didn't realize it was that widespread. I read that MORE THAN ONE MILLION new cases are diagnosed annualy! That's a lot of people with skin cancer. Guess this summer I'm going to opt for sunless tanning sprays!

UVA Rays, not that good!

I thought UVA rays were the good ones because they caused tanning. But I learned that they can also cause serious damage. They can weaken a person's immune system and make it harder to fight off diseases.
this can lead to melanoma, the most serious (and deadly) type of skin cancer.

Seems to me like there is no way to safe tan besides lotions and stuff like that.

I never got the UVA, UVB rays thing. But now I learned that UVA rays are what cause people to tan. They penetrate into the lower layers of the epidermis and trigger cells that rpoduce melanin. Melanin is the pigment that causes tanning.

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