It’s summer season and everyone have a plan that includes beaches and sun! This is wonderful and everything, but don’t ruin it with sun damages. As summer lasts for three months, while sun damages last way longer. Since prevention is better than cure, get ready for summer and combat sun damages with following the right tips to enjoy your vacation.
Tips for Your Summer Vacation
- Stay hydrated: drinking water and juices like watermelon or eating water-based vegetables like cucumber would infuse your body with the hydration you need. Sweating makes your body loses its liquids and this is the only way to Replenish lost fluids.
- Use sunscreens: using sunscreen could be the most important step of your whole routine. Protecting your skin from sun damages is a priority. The least you can use is 30 SPF with UV and UVB protection. You must reapply it every two hours.
- Moisturize your skin regularly: after going out and enjoy the sunny weather. Your skin needs to relief. Using hydrating moisturizer will help your skin to heal and refresh. This is an essential step to protect your skin not only in summer.
- Sunscreens are not only for outdoors: yes, your read that correctly. If you live in a house where sun gets through windows, then you have to apply sunscreen. Sun damages know all the roads to your skin.
Sun Damages are Serious, but Are They That SERIOUS?
- Signs of Ageing: over 90% of wrinkles associated with aging are actually related to cumulative sun damage. Collagen and elastin are proteins that make your skin firm, supple and resilient, but UV radiation from sun exposure can destroy them. Exposed skin tends to be more wrinkled, and the sun plays a huge role in that.
- Broken blood vessels: the red spidery veins around your nose and cheeks are caused by exposure to UV light. If the blood vessels were broken, they’d bleed into the skin and cause bruises. They are broken because they’re not doing what they’re supposed to be doing, which is pumping the blood from one area to the next and staying trim (or tight) and, therefore, invisible.
- Hyperpigmentation: Patients often complain of mottled skin with evidence of dark and light patches. Sometimes there may be evidence of red discoloration as well. Inflamed skin can become hyperpigmented, and a frequent cause of such skin inflammation is sun exposure.
- Skin cancer: exposing to too much ultraviolet (UV) radiation from the sun can damage DNA in your skin cells and cause skin cancer. “In the UK, almost 9 in 10 cases of melanoma skin cancer could be prevented by staying safe in the sun and avoiding sunbeds” – Cancer Research UK.
What the Sun Hits and Run..
It happens that you get sunburn regardless of how much do you follow all the previous steps to protect your skin from the sun. In this case, it depends on how serious it is, you could use the products.
After Sun Moisturizing Soothing Lotion
It’s an after-sun lotion and hydrating moisturizer comes together to form a perfect union of hot weather skin care products. This moisturizer has a light formula and easy to absorb. It works as an intensive moisturizer for 48 hours, better for nourishing and hydrating your skin overnight. It’s enriched with aloe vera and precious avocado oil for a soft and silky skin that will soothe and cool in equal measure.
How to apply: This aloe vera after sun should be applied post-shower for maximum moisture retention; apply to all areas exposed to sunlight that day.
This is similar to the previous one, but with different formula. It has a cooling formula with aloe vera that provides instant relief, absorbs quickly and moisturizes the skin for 48 hours. It’s designed to intensely nourish and protect. It helps to avoid peeling or flaking and immediately soothes sun-stressed skin. Due to the enriching formula with aloe vera and organic hyaluronan, the after-sun spray helps maintain the skin’s elasticity and hydrates for a soft skin feeling. Apply the aloe vera after sun spray generously after sun exposure. Reapply whenever the skin feels dehydrated. People love this product as it quickly absorbs into skin to nourish, hydrate, and replenish without leaving any greasiness or sticky residue behind.
How to apply: Apply the aloe vera after sun spray generously after sun exposure. Reapply whenever the skin feels dehydrated.
Do you want after-sun cream that is lighter than the regular cream, but slightly stronger than the spray? Let me introduce you to Sun Sensitive SOS Cream Gel that has everything you’re looking for. It’s lighter than After Sun Moisturizing Soothing Lotion and heavier than After Sun Moisture Spray. It relieves sun-related skin irritation and redness and is ideal for delicate and sun-sensitive skin. Since the formula is gel, it has non-sticky texture. It moisturizes for 48 hours with organic aloe vera and antioxidants, the skin gel moisturizes, soothes and strengthens the skin’s natural protective barrier. It relieves signs of sun-damaged skin and its skin compatibility is dermatologically tested.
How to apply: It should be applied post-shower for maximum moisture retention; apply to all areas exposed to sunlight that day.
What If They Don’t Work?
If you have tried one or all the mentioned products and your skin is still irritated, then this could be a strong sunburn and you have to visit a dermatologist to get the proper treatment. Sometimes, you notice your skin is peeled, please don’t miss with it and leave it, as playing with such peels may cause pigmentation or even hyperpigmentation.
