Sun protection

INTRODUCTION

In recent years, awareness campaigns have succeeded in changing the habits of many citizens. Currently there are few people who do not take preventive measures before sun exposure. However, skin tanning fashion requires some extreme precautions are not always able to perform in all situations. It is important to know that sunburns are especially harmful before age 18.

It is true that children, especially infants, should avoid sun exposure. But it is also true that teens should exercise extreme application of sunscreen to avoid burns, redness or erythema, which will have lifelong consequences if they come to produce regularly or gravity.

Another habit that we have not managed to implement is to apply sunscreen when we go outside to the street. Especially in the Mediterranean sun in the spring with us on any ride, and there many times we drop our guard. It would be especially desirable to protect the face from the first rays of spring, because aging, blemishes and wrinkles are directly related to the exposure of our skin to sunlight.

The consequences of making sun protection as something trivial, ranging from premature aging to cancer. Today, no scientist doubts the need to avoid prolonged sun exposure and of course the need for protection by filters, or even brown skin used to the sun.

SIDE EFFECTS OF THE SUN

UVA and UVB rays, and produce pigmentation in the current fashion is associated with a healthy look and flattering, if abused, have effects that are not at all beneficial to health:

Skin spots, wrinkles, and eventually skin cancer and superficial tumors. In the long term, UVB rays are absorbed by DNA and cause alterations in the genome. UVA rays are also absorbed and transformed into free radicals, which alter the genetic material and saturate the skin's defensive systems. Thus the abuse of aging and sun produces in particularly sensitive or prolonged skin cancer

According to several clinical studies, use a sunscreen 15 during the first 18 years of life can reduce up to 78% the risk of skin cancer.

HOW Broncos?, TIPS

Whenever our skin is exposed to sunlight must protect ourselves. With hats, clothing (light shirts, long pants), sunglasses, and sunscreen creams that contain reliable.

We must free ourselves from the obsession with tanning, and especially the quick tan. And if you have teenage children, awareness of the absolute need for sun protection. The quick tan is always a risk, because exposure to the sun, as we know, must be gradual, never for more than 20 minutes at a time, preferably in motion, never at midday (between 11 and 15 hours), with special the early days care.

It is always necessary to use maximum protection sunscreen at the beginning (from 15), and reapply every two hours.

For best results the use of a sunscreen, you need to follow four basic rules:

• Apply the sunscreen at home, never at the beach or pool.

• Doing well on dry skin.

• Apply 30 minutes before sun exposure.

• Be generous in quantity.

Follow these rules, will also be necessary to consider the following recommendations:

1. Some people are used to cool the skin with water for sun exposure. Not recommended, undermines the effectiveness of the protection factor and moisturizes the skin. The water should be ingested to be effective, and hydrate the skin should use a cream that contains moisturizing factors such as aloe vera.

2. On the beach should not be used alcoholic perfume or cologne containing essences vegetables, because they are photosensitive. Scented sun milks are also not advisable.

3. Use protection even on cloudy days.

PROTECTION FACTOR AND sunscreen with ALOE VERA

Caution is necessary when choosing the sunscreen.

Protection and sunscreen

We look at quality assurance. The ISO 9001:2000 is a quality assurance. There are agencies that show how to test the effectiveness of sun protection: The quality sunscreen should be subject to determination of sun protection factor according to the methodology COLIPA, European governing protective factors, and FDA, American Association governing factors of protection. Another precaution is to be protected from both UVA and of UVB, the label must specify the protection against UVB or UVA include **** symbol within a circle.

Other components

Another important condition to be met by a good sunscreen is moisturizing. During sun exposure skin inevitably becomes dry and this effect should be countered with some component hydrated. In this sense we believe that Aloe Vera is a fundamental factor. In addition to moisturize the skin naturally and very effectively, aloe vera increases up to 8 times the output of the cells responsible for natural collagen, protecting from the harmful effects and has envejecedores sun exposure.

Especially important is the cream used on the face. The facial skin is very sensitive to the sun, and the effects of long exposure are not positive: wrinkles, spots, premature aging. Therefore, the wisest recommendation is to avoid possible direct effects of sunlight on the face. Because exposure is in any case inevitable, we must protect especially with a cream that contains active ingredients that prevent aging (coenzyme Q10, Vitamin E, Retinol, etc ...)

THE SUN AND THE CHILDREN AND TEENS

It has been shown that the burns during childhood and adolescence, when the skin is less protected by natural defenses, creating damage to the skin that appear later in adulthood and determine a predisposition to the development of major skin problems. It is important to teach children to protect the sun from small, because the effects of solar radiation are cumulative and irreversible. You must use special protection for children, is hypoallergenic, with a powerful sunscreen.

Tips for children and adolescents:

• Do not expose children to the sun before age 3.

• Use a sunscreen for children.

• You must renew the product regularly (every hour).

• It is good caps Protect the head and body with shirts if they have white skin and sensitive.

• Drink plenty of water.

• Raise awareness among teenagers and older children and keep their guard up to 18 years.

AFTER THE SUN. ALOE VERA

One of the most spectacular and effective applications of aloe vera on the burns of the skin. Anyone who has witnessed or experienced in himself the healing effect of aloe vera gel on a burn, you probably will always be consumers of this plant. If you apply aloe vera gel on the burned skin, you may not be reached even blistering sunburn is severe. The skin cell regeneration in these cases is so spectacular that in a few hours the effects of the burn away completely and hardly is a simple redness.

So the most suitable composition of a post-sun cream must surely be very rich in aloe vera gel. If also contains menthol produces a cooling effect very nice and helpful. Aloe Vera regenerates damaged skin, red or sunburned. Avoiding the occurrence of blisters, peeling of the epidermis, or the sunspot time irreversible.

MYTHS ABOUT SUN PROTECTION

It is false that:

• The solar lamps do not produce negative effects. The reality is that UV ISSUED BY sunlamps HAVE ALL THE HARMFUL EFFECTS OF THE SUN RAYS: premature aging, Spots, increases the risk of developing cancer CUT? NEO.

• Apply several layers of sunscreen more effective. The truth is that sunscreens EFFECTIVENESS HAVE INDICATED IN YOUR PACKAGE, REGARDLESS OF LAYERS THAT APPLY.

• Protection 15 is sufficient to protect against adverse effects. ALTHOUGH THAT 15 IS ENOUGH PROTECTION to protect the face, or skin normal adults, we recommend using GREATER PROTECTION FOR CHILDREN OR WHITE SKIN, SENSITIVE, OR freckled unaccustomed THE SUN.