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Expectation vs. Reality – TAN or BURN – choice is yours…
Summer is coming and we start preparing for our next BIG holiday. Have you started your shopping yet? It won’t take long and you will find yourself among bikinis, beach towels, summer dresses and … SUN protection products. Which one is your favorite?
Any time your skin is not protected by sunscreen or clothes and gets too much sun, it can burn or tan. Even in UK, with our lack of sunny days we can accumulate enough of sun damage if we don’t protect from harmful sun rays. But why do some people get a sunburn and others get a suntan?
Melanin, a hormone developed by our skin, is responsible for tanning of the skin exposed to sunlight. People who have dark skin have more melanin. People who have light skin have less or none.
Here’s how melanin makes your skin burn or tan:
- Your body normally makes melanin to try to protect the deeper layers of your skin from damage.
- When your skin gets damaged by the sun rays, it makes even more melanin to try to protect your skin from being damaged further. That causes the skin to change color:
- Dark-skinned people usually turn darker brown, or tan, when they go in the sun.
- Light-skinned people usually turn red first, or burn, when they go in the sun and then tan.
Besides tanning or burning, a lot of people also get uneven patches of color, or freckles. Even if you have naturally dark skin or never burn and always tan, that still means the sun is damaging your skin. And you can still get skin cancer and wrinkles some day. To prevent this happening you MUST use Sun Protection products.
Sunscreens are products combining several ingredients that help prevent the sun’s ultraviolet (UV) radiation from reaching the skin. UVB is the chief culprit behind sunburn, while UVA rays, which penetrate the skin more deeply, are associated with wrinkling, leathering, sagging, and other light-induced effects of aging. They also exacerbate the carcinogenic effects of UVB rays, and increasingly are being seen as a cause of skin cancer on their own.
How often do I need to reapply the sun protection?
Here’s how it works: If it takes 20 minutes for your unprotected skin to start turning red, using an SPF 15 sunscreen theoretically prevents reddening 15 times longer — about five hours. The only recommendation we will give that this count is sufficient for UK’s sun. It won’t stand in Spain or Egypt.
Another way to look at it is in terms of percentages: SPF 15 filters out approximately 93 percent of all incoming UVB rays. SPF 30 keeps out 97 percent and SPF 50 keeps out 98 percent. They may seem like negligible differences, but if you are light-sensitive, or have a history of skin cancer, those extra percentages will make a difference. And as you can see, no sunscreen can block all UV rays.
REMEMBER!
No sunscreen, regardless of strength, should be expected to stay effective longer than two hours without reapplication.
Therefore, PROTECT YOURSELF! If you already have protection which you used before and was happy with your tan and condition of your skin then stick to it. But, if you are looking for a new Sun protection – TRY the LIGHT PROTECT.
We have been recommending LIGHT PROTECT for a few years and have only positive review from our customers. It has SPF 50+ and provides the ultimate daily protection against harmful UVA and UVB rays. But more important it has oil-free, ultra light, blending well formulation which will intensely hydrates the skin aiding its repair.
The LIGHT PROTECT SPF 50+ is always available at the clinic for our customers at £30.
