An essential part of skin health and anti-aging involves protecting your skin from the sun’s harmful rays. Daily attention to sun safety can help protect your skin from premature aging, skin damage, and even skin cancer.
Protect Yourself from Sun Exposure
While 10 minutes of sun exposure three times a week provides essential nutrients like Vitamin D, it’s important to understand the risks of excessive unprotected sun exposure and how to take daily steps to safeguard your skin. Essentially, we follow the principle of “everything in moderation” at Medovate. When possible, minimize your exposure to the sun when the sun’s rays are most directly overhead with the most harmful cancer causing rays (UVB), which typically occurs from around 10 AM to 4 PM. This will help prevent sun damage or premature aging to the skin. Where possible, please seek shade or go inside during this time of day. If you must be outside during this time, please wear sun-protective clothing, wide-brim hats, sunglasses, and sunscreen.
Wear Protective Clothing
Wearing sun protective clothing is one of the best sun protection tactics for adults and children. Wear UPF (ultraviolet protective factor) clothing that shields exposed areas from the sun, such as hats, long sleeves, and long pants. Certain fabrics such as denim, wool, polyester, bamboo/cotton blends and unbleached cottons provide increased protection as they are made with a tighter weave or denser material. Sunglasses play a vital role in protecting the eyes from the sun’s UV radiation.
Apply Sunscreen Properly
Sunscreens are a critical component of a daily sun safety plan for people of all ages and skin types. Look for sunscreens with sun protection factor (SPF) 50 that block both UVA and UVB rays. We recommend using SPF 50, as most of us only get ¼ of the SPF number we apply since we don’t use enough. The SPF number is related to the UVB rays R