For health-conscious people like you, summertime presents a tricky, Catch-22 type of situation. You want to get outdoors so you can enjoy the season, and you’ll also need to protect your skin from the sun. But you don’t want to spread potentially harmful ingredients all over your body or on any member of your family. […]
We all love summertime. Kids and adults alike suffer silently through winter and spring, and sometimes count down the days to summer. Boating, fishing, swimming, cookouts—they’re all signature summer activities. However, along with those activities comes sun exposure, and while our bodies need sun for the proper production of vitamin D, too much sun exposure […]
We love the sun for a lot of reasons. It cheers us up, it keeps us warm and it gives us the vitamin D3 our bodies majorly depend on. On the other hand, the sun’s UV radiation in excess can produce genetic mutations that lead to skin cancer. Government organizations have even identified UV as […]
What do you think of when you think of aging? Wrinkles? Gray hair? What about skin discoloration? I’ll admit, as an early-mid twenties female, I’m cognizant of my skin and the aging process that is already beginning. Â IÂ try to keep my face out of the sun in hopes of slowing down the wrinkles and preventing […]
It seems that in our increasingly health-conscious society, most of us know something about the long-term risks of sun exposure. Skin cancer is the most common type of cancer in the US, and all three types of skin cancer (squamous, basal, and melanoma) have been associated in some way or another with sun damage. However, some […]
Does your skin like the sun? Do you burn easily? We’ve finally had some warm sunny days in Wisconsin and that means getting our very pale-skinned, ghostly white bodies out to catch some rays. Unfortunately, we usually catch some sunburn, too. There’s nothing sexier than looking like a lobster! Burning your skin is a good way to make your skin age […]
