Anyone with even the most basic awareness of skin cancer is likely to know that the Golden Rule of practicing sun-safety is to wear sunscreen. The only better protection from the sun\u2019s harmful UV (ultraviolet) rays is to sit inside your home with all the window shades drawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Unfortunately, though, there is a key piece of information regarding sunscreen of which far too many people are unaware.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
First, if you\u2019re a regular sunscreen user\u2014excellent job. However, it\u2019s equally important to apply the correct amount. This is the only way to ensure that the sun protection factor<\/em> (SPF) sun-shield that you\u2019re actually receiving is identical to what is stated on the product.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Many of us, albeit unwittingly, fall into that category. The typical wearer applies a mere 25%<\/strong> of what\u2019s required to achieve a sunscreen\u2019s full safety potential. And while 75% off may be fantastic for department store sales; it is disastrous<\/em> to our skin. To illustrate further, when 25% of an SPF 100 rated sunscreen is applied, the true SPF isn\u2019t 25-\u2014it\u2019s only 3.2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Anyone who spends even a brief time reading up on skin cancer and melanoma, will inevitably come across a few of the same specific comparisons used in a wide variety of materials. The one relevant to this post is that the minimum<\/strong> volume of sunscreen to use for each<\/em> application would be enough to fill a shot glass. It\u2019s also important that it be evenly distributed across any exposed skin, and be re-applied at a maximum <\/em>of two hours. Even sooner than that if you\u2019ve been sweating or swimming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Speaking of the latter, spending a day at a beach or pool wearing only a swimsuit is not a good idea. However, anyone who does should use up an entire a 6-ounce container of sunscreen on him or herself by the time they leave. Do you use that much or know anyone who does?<\/p>\n\n\n\n The main point is important to reiterate: you must apply sunscreen much more heavily than that of most users to achieve the rated SPF.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Don\u2019t just get your money\u2019s worth of SPF; get your skin\u2019s good health worth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Iit\u2019s important to apply the correct amount of sun screen This is the only way to ensure that the sun protection factor (SPF) sun-shield that you\u2019re actually receiving is identical to what is stated on the product.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[31,43,64,72,79],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/melanomaeducation.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/melanomaeducation.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/melanomaeducation.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melanomaeducation.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melanomaeducation.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=645"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/melanomaeducation.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1050,"href":"https:\/\/melanomaeducation.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645\/revisions\/1050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/melanomaeducation.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melanomaeducation.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melanomaeducation.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
*Additional sources: Vitals.lifehacker.com<\/a>, Onlinelibrary.wiley.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n