Know the best Sunscreen to Help Protect Your Skin from the Sun

Even in the shade, using sunscreen or donning protective clothes is your greatest line of defense when heading outside to avoid damaging your skin.

Palak May 19, 2024

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Sunscreen: How to Help Protect Your Skin from the Sun

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1 Sunscreen: How to Help Protect Your Skin from the Sun

1.1 It is essential to be choosy when looking for a sunscreens that will protect your skin against the harm of UV rays. Choose a sunscreen that offers:

1.2 Despite people using sunscreen in multiple instances, they though don’t use proportionate amount or don’t apply sunscreen in the right manner. In this respect, the effectiveness of the free market approach is limited. Follow these guidelines:

Whether or not you use sunscreens in the right way, and if you combine them with other protective measures, help you to avoid sunburn, skin cancer, early skin aging or other risks of overexposure to the sun. Some key sun safety tips include:

How to select the best Sunscreen ?

It is essential to be choosy when looking for a sunscreens that will protect your skin against the harm of UV rays. Choose a sunscreen that offers:

Broad-spectrum protection- It is a way of defending from UVA as well as UVB rays.
SPF 30 or SPF 50 and above – Whether resistance to water or is being waterproof. This means that the sunscreen offers protection against water, sweat, or swimming during certain time frame as indicated on the label—either 40 or 80 minutes; it depends on the labelling.

How to apply Sunscreen ?

Despite people using sunscreen in multiple instances, they though don’t use proportionate amount or don’t apply sunscreen in the right manner. In this respect, the effectiveness of the free market approach is limited. Follow these guidelines:

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Make sure to apply sunscreen to all skin areas that will be exposed: neck, face, arms, legs, etc, if there is no covering of clothing.
Apply at least 1 ounce or enough sunscreen for you to fill up a shot glass. Cover to exposed areas. That one ounce on the top of the head. However, the volume must be increased to account for a bigger body and more hair in that case.

Spread the moisturizer on dry skin to rub to dryness shortly before leaving the house. Which makes it possible for it to be absorbed.
Use a sunscreen with a protection factor of 30 or more and apply it every two hours, or right away after swimming or sweating.
Protect your lips with a balm or lipstick that contains sunscreen, having an SPF value of 30 or higher.

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