The damaging effects the harsh rays of the sun can do to the body are no longer news. Rather, attention is now on how to protect ourselves from these rays with sunscreen. Don’t get it wrong, a little bit of sunshine is beneficial to the body, as it can be a source of vitamin D. But too much exposure to the sun will certainly damage the skin.
The primary destructive agents are the Ultraviolet A (UVA) and Ultraviolet B (UVB), both are constituents of sunlight, and are the major cause of skin cancer, altered pigmentation, dilated blood vessels, and textural changes of the skin. And when you combine all these anomalies, the result is an aging skin. When someone with sunburn further exposes himself to the sun without sunscreen protection, he is damaging his skin and increasing the odds of him getting skin cancer.
The same holds for the process of tanning, because each exposure further damages the skin, regardless of whether the skin is sunburned or not. It is due to this that experts asserted that no skin tanning is really safe.
Over the years, several types of sun screens have been produced with built in capabilities to protect the skin from the damaging...