Myths about Tanning and Sun Damage

Consumers have many misconceptions about sunbathing and the path of the sun damages the skin. Some of these misconceptions are:

1. You can not tan or burn if the weather is cloudy or rainy. Of course this is completely wrong. Do clouds filter a small amount of UV light, but not enough damage to affect the skin. It is quite possible to burn tan even in cloudy, overcast, especially without sunscreen.

2. You can not burn when you are in water. This is also wrong. Water may have been cool to bask in the sun on hot skin, but has no effect on the sun burns and damage potential. The heat from the sun is caused by infrared rays, not UV radiation. Swimming and going to the pool or sea, in fact, many remove some or applied a large amount of sunscreen used to be. It is recommended to use a waterproof sunscreen. Sunscreen should be reapplied every time you get while swimming in the water, or be about once per hour.

3. Umbrellas or big hats to prevent sun damage. The real truth is that even though they are a help, not prevent them, lots of sun from reaching the sensitive skin, and certainly no substitute for a good sunscreen. Reduce primarily to glare, so you do not so much to prevent worsening of strabismus and helps wrinkles. It's a good idea, but sun light resistant wear clothing, which also contribute to light-filtering, but UV rays can burn the skin through a light shirt. Wear a hat, appropriate clothing and sit in the shade as much as possible, but still wear a good sunscreen.

4. Baby or mineral oil accelerated browning. This is simply not true. In fact, because they can not contain sunscreen, they burn faster, and they offer no protection against sun damage.

5. Apply moisturizer after sunbathing will prevent peeling. This is totally wrong! If the skin is burned, it will peel, no matter what is done on the skin. Apply moisturizer on well-protected skin can help replace some of the water in the dehydrated, exposed skin, peeling or areas to lubricate so that the skin look better, but it will not stop pulling away from the sun-damaged skin.

6. Apply a lot of moisturizer will counter the damage caused by the sun. Wrong again. Hydrating fluids to replace help cut some of the water, which also deprived from the surface of cells during exposure to the sun, but UV rays right through the skin. Remember that UVA rays penetrate directly through the skin, or the second layer of skin damage, collagen and elastin fibers leading to wrinkles.

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