Jetske has today asked me, Peter Velthuis, as guest blogger to add a piece on her blog about the sun.
Everyone knows that burning is not good for your skin. There is clear evidence of a link between burning and the most dangerous form of skin cancer melanoma.
A protection factor is fine to have in your make-up as long as you realise that it provides only a very low protection.
The damage that the sun does to your skin can be avoided. The American Academy of Dermatology advises applying a minimum of SPF15 daily. A sun protection cream only prolongs the time before your skin starts to change colour so sitting in the sun all day and smearing it in only once is not enough. Protect yourself! You cannot sit in the sun for an unlimited amount of time. What usually happens is that people don’t use enough sun cream. Only 25-50% of what is actually necessary! Because of this the factor is greatly reduced and therefore gives much less protection.
Because I know what the sun can do to skin I always smear lots of sun cream in. I don’t mind not having a ‘beautiful healthy brown colour’. This is actually your skin’s defence mechanism reacting to an excess amount of rays and is therefore not good at all! Really: most skin ageing is due to the sun. Apart from the fact that the sun accelerates the ageing process of your skin in the form of wrinkles and pigment spots, it also becomes less resilient (think about a golfer’s neck who is always out in the sun and gets to look leathery). This is, of course, a slow process. But unfortunately the benefits and advice given about sun creams and staying out of the sun are still taken, by many, with a pinch of salt.
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