Summer skin protection

If you’re on vacation, if you’re on a trip, that means getting ready. Clothes, documents, important items of use are placed in the suitcase to make us feel comfortable during the holidays. We pay attention to the change of clothes, which includes a warmer version. In addition to clothes, we also take great care of beauty products. The basic products include shower gel, toothbrush and toothpaste, but during the holiday, mosquito and tick repellents as well as sunscreen cosmetics are also included in the bag.

Anyone whose skin has already burned does not want to experience it anymore. And families with small children will set off with extra preparedness, especially if they are going on a waterfront holiday. Today, the weather report draws attention to the extent of UV radiation and sunburn products are also much more effective than they used to be. Nevertheless, even now, it must be described that to this day, there is no sunscreen that provides 100% protection.

Products with a high number of factors that protect against skin damage can also provide 98% protection for our skin. These 50-factor formulations, but also the 15-factor sunburn products, provide over 90% protection against the sun's harmful rays.

However, these values also depend on the type and color of a person's skin. It also depends on the water balance of the skin, the coverage of the body by the hair.

Many people feel completely protected when they treat their skin with a high-factor sunscreen product. What provides protection for several hours within the laboratory framework will lose its protective effect much sooner on a hot day, so even the cream with the strongest factor number will need to be re-applied to the skin. In fact, it doesn’t hurt to put it on ourselves thickly.

There was a time when the meager selection of sunscreen products meant that for hours we were left with the applied oil or cream, leaving a white or yellow stain on our skin. Today, not only is the supply much larger, but you can also find sprays, gels and foams, so the sunscreen product can be applied more evenly to the skin and protects the skin more effectively.

Sunscreens can protect the skin in two ways according to their active ingredients. One of their varieties is those that contain organic matter that, because of their white color, not only reflects light but is able to absorb harmful rays of the sun. It is a safer solution for the skin, but it is harmful to nature, which is why the use of such preparations has been banned in several places. Another type of sunscreen includes glitter products that stick to the rays of the sun as a mirror that sticks to the skin like tiny glitter. The disadvantage is that even after a shower, it disappears from the skin, so its protective effect also disappears.

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(Source: marmalade.co.hu | pictures: pixabay.com)