Learn about SPF – Don’t Burn Your Skin This Summer.
July 7, 2009
Protect Your Skin From Sunburn with the Proper SPF Sun Treatment.
Skin Cancer is highly preventable and unfortunately, not prevented often enough. Daily use of proper sunscreen products will reduce your chances of developing skin cancer. Always select a sunscreen of SPF 15 or higher, that blocks damaging sunrays, is simply to apply so that you ‘use it’ daily. A good sunscreen should be broad-spectrum – protecting your skin from UVB and UVA rays.
SPF seems to confound many – it means the ‘sun protection factor’ and compares the time needed to produce sunburn on protected skin verses the time to cause sunburn on unprotected skin. SPF protection does not increase proportionally with the SPF Rating. Here is an example:
- SPF 15 = Screens out 93% of Sunburn damage.
- SPF 30 = Screens out 97%…
- SPF 70 = Screens out only 98.6%…
I recommend a lip balm with SPF 15 and a Sunscreen of 15 to 30 SPF. You can use a tinted lip balm under a gloss if you’d like in the summer (instead of lipstick and gloss).
Be aware that water resistant sunscreen’s need to be reapplied every 40 minutes and even Mary Kay’s SPF 30 Sunscreen (very water resistant) should be applied every 80 minutes while in the water.
Typically, use 1 oz of sunscreen to protect your body. So think in terms of a 12 Oz. sunscreen for 12 applications. Be sure to apply sunscreen to all exposed areas and pay special attention to your face, ears, hands, and arms.
PS – I would love your feedback and comments. What do you do to protect your skin? Other ideas? I use Mary Kay’s SPF 30 – waterproof and tinted lip balms; however, there are a multitude of great solutions.
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Juliette Calandra Ferguson
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