Skin Ageing Due to the Sun

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.

An interesting fact is that 50 to 80% of the damage to your skin by the sun happens before your 21st birthday. This is why it is important that you start protecting yourself against the sun in time.

Regards Jetske

(Dr. Jetske Ultee – Research Physician Cosmetic Dermatology)