Don't Leave Home Without the Sunscreen

Posted: May 12th, 2017

Sunscreen, sun, screen. Skin is the largest of the body's organs and protects everything beneath it. It is a valuable and beautiful part of the body and caring for it requires daily skin care as well skin checkups annually. Regular facials help skin looking and feeling good and skin care can include that as well as regular cleansing, exfoliating and adding moisture in the form of a lotion, cream or serum or a combination of those products. No skin care regimen should be without the daily use of sunscreen to prevent sun damaged skin. It's as easy as using a daily moisturizer with even more skin-saving benefits. Sun damaged skin can lead to at best, early signs of aging such as brown spots and wrinkles, and at worst, skin cancer. A daily skin care regimen that includes sunscreen usage is the best and most effective way to care for skin.Facials can help keep skin moisturized and help slough off dead skin cells, but healthy skin requires a daily skin care regimen consisting of daily sunscreen usage even in winter months. The sun may not be directly overhead or as strong in summer, but its ultraviolet rays can still cause damage to healthy skin when it's cold outside. Therefore, applying a sunscreen with an SPF of at least 30 is essential for all exposed skin in all seasons. The reapplication of sunscreen throughout the day is paramount. Even the best sunscreens lose their effectiveness as the day wears on, by perspiration and after outdoor bathing and towel drying. There are many effective and reasonably priced lotions with chemical or mineral sunblock ingredients that can be used even on sensitive skin. Using sunscreen daily not only keeps skin looking younger and healthier, it can save lives by helping to prevent skin cancers.