Protecting your skin from the sun’s harmful radiation is important throughout the year, but especially during the summer months when you probably spend quite a bit of time outside. Overexposure to the sun causes sunburn temporarily, but it can also cause wrinkles, sun spots, and even skin cancer when you start looking at it from [...]

We all know of the dangers of excessive exposure to the harmful radiation of the sun. Besides the risk of skin cancer, too much ultraviolet radiation (UVR) can cause rapid aging of the skin by harming collagen and also encourage the development of cataracts in the eyes. There are a few easy sun protection tips [...]

Trying to decide on how to remove skin tags can be a confusing issue. A person needs to know what causes them and their nature. There are many reasons for wanting them removed. And there are many ways in which to accomplish this. These little bumps are simply benign growths often caused by skin rubbing [...]

Many people feel that picking any kind of swimwear can be an unpleasant and stress-filled event with all the many choices available. When you consider the added factor of sun protection developments, the process can really become difficult. The damage to the Earth’s ozone layer, increasing rates of skin cancer, and other harmful effects of [...]

We first started to realize how important it is to protect our skin in the 1900s, and the first response to this knowledge was sunscreen, which is measured in sun protection factor, commonly known as SPF. Sunscreen blocks some of the ultraviolet radiation from the sun. We are always being exposed to UVR, even on [...]

Sunlight helps Planet Earth sustain life, although it also carries risk because too much of the sun’s ultraviolet radiation can raise the risk of developing skin cancer. UVR is present in every sunray that gets absorbed into your skin. Of course we all need a very small amount so that our bodies can produce the [...]

Worldwide, there are over two million cases of non-melanoma skin cancer reported, and a third of every cancer diagnosed is skin cancer. Eighty percent of new cancer diagnoses in Australia are skin cancer, and two-thirds of Australians will have skin cancer by the time they are 70 years old. It may seem like our beach-going [...]