SPF 15 is not enought to protect Your skin

Are enjoying the long weekend for a trip to the beach? Did you use sunscreen to protect your skin from sun exposure? It's precise choice of sunscreen do you use? One vote was not going to make sunscreens protect your skin from sun exposure.

During this time, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) sets minimum standards of SPF (Sun Protection Factor) 15 if someone would come out of the house and risk exposure to the sun. However, people often use sunscreen cream is too little. Because of ignorance about how to use it, according to the researchers, we only get half the recommended amount of sunscreen.

"Factor 15 that could offer protection during the day only if you anoint with thick," says Dr. Ike Iheanacho, editor of Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin (DTB). "In reality, people usually apply sunscreen with a lot less, so it does not get more than half of the protective substances, called SPF that."

Fuss, applying sunscreen in sufficient numbers also make extravagant. To protect the skin throughout the adult body, for once application of, requiring about 35 ml of sunscreen. It had been so, NICE also recommend to repeat pengolesannya every two hours. That is, 200 ml size bottle of sunscreen could be discharged within two or three days.

According to Dr Iheanacho, if you want to reduce the risk of skin sunburn or skin cancer, at least you need a sunscreen with SPF 30.

In Britain, every day at least two people aged under 35 years of being diagnosed with a type of skin cancer the most deadly. Figures for cases of disease in malignant melanoma in people aged 15-34 years increased three fold since the late 1970s, according to Cancer Research UK. Thus, the danger of skin cancer is not just nonsense.