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Vitamin C is found in citrus fruits or green leafy vegetables. What is Vitamin C?
How can Vitamin C be used in skin care products?
Vitamin C is a sugar-like molecule, called L-ascorbic acid, that acts a as a major anti-oxidant in the skin.
Vitamin C has other important functions in the body, including helping to [...]
Use Sun Protective Clothing and Sunglasses
The American Academy of Dermatology offers tips for being smart in the sun.
Enjoy the outdoors, but don’t seek the sun.
Use sun protection and have a good time, while preventing your skin from prematurely aging and decreasing your risk of skin cancer. The American Academy of Dermatology recommends that [...]
What is Vitamin D’s effect on the immune system?
It has been known for years that excessive ultraviolet light, especially the shorter, burning rays UVB, can cause non-melanoma skin cancer such as squamous cell cancer of the skin, basal cell skin cancer as well as pre-skin cancers called actinic keratoses. It is as well proven how [...]
What does Vitamin D have to do with Skin Care?
Vitamin D is a chemical or hormone that affects many body functions. Vitamin D is made from precursors in the skin. It requires several steps in various organs to become active and useful.
One of the first steps in the pathway involves the interaction between ultraviolet light [...]
What is the controversy regarding sunscreen usage and Vitamin D?
It is known that regular use of sunscreens helps prevent pre-skin cancers and non-melanoma skin cancer. But do sunscreens prevent the adequate generation of Vitamin D? This is the question dermatologists have been pondering for the last few years.
Fortunately, it turns out that very little ultraviolet [...]
What causes Rosacea?
Because it is so common, rosacea is considered by many to be a ‘condition’ rather than a disease. Although the exact causal mechanism of rosacea is unknown, several factors probably play an important role.
Those with a ‘fair’ or northern European background are more pre-disposed to rosacea, although it has been reported in patients [...]
What does ‘SPF’ mean?
SPF = Sun Protection Factor SPF or ‘Sun Protection Factor’ is based on a concept called the ‘MED’ or ‘Minimal Erythema Dose’.
(Erythema is just a fancy word for pink or red).
One MED is the amount of ultraviolet light it takes to make a person’s skin turn ‘erythematous’ or pink.
The unit of light [...]
What is a Sunscreen?
Sunscreens are divided into two main categories:
Chemical sunscreens which absorb UV radiation and Physical Sunscreens which reflect, scatter or block UV radiation.
Of course, ’sunscreens’ don’t only come in a bottle.
Clothing and hats provide some protection from the sun, but many types of clothing provide only weak or incomplete protection, and therefore applying [...]
Kiehl’s Skin Care Products
Kiehl’s is the proprietary name of a skin care company providing extensive range of skin care products. Kiehl’s skin care line includes moisturizers, fragrances, hair care, shaving products for men and women as well as anti-aging products. Kiehl’s even has a line of pet care products including shampoos. Many of Kiehl’s [...]
What is UV radiation (light)?
Ultraviolet Light and Your Skin Ultraviolet (UV) light is a type of radiation from the sun that we can not see. The wavelengths of UV light are shorter than the visible light that we see with or that plants and trees use to make sugars.
UV light is divided into three categories, [...]