Video: What are some of the most harmful mistakes people make when tanning?

Chủ nhật - 05/05/2024 23:24
You want a healthy summer glow, but you also know that too much sun exposure comes with risks, like skin cancer. Is it possible to tan safely? How long should you tan for? What SPF sunscreen should you wear? In this video, dermatologist...
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You want a healthy summer glow, but you also know that too much sun exposure comes with risks, like skin cancer. Is it possible to tan safely? How long should you tan for? What SPF sunscreen should you wear? In this video, dermatologist Margareth Pierre-Louis answers your questions and teaches you how to reduce your risk when tanning and avoid the mistakes that are most damaging to your skin.

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Key Takeaways

  • Don’t stay out for too long when you’re tanning. Overdoing it can lead to damage, redness, and an increased risk of skin cancer.
  • Don’t skip the sunscreen just because you’re tanning. Wearing a thin layer of SPF 30 will protect your skin but still allow you to get a tan.

Video Transcript

Number one, they stay out too long. Tanning is when we truly try to use the body's own energies of giving you a darker glow of the skin by exposing it for a certain length of time to the sun. If you overdo it, if you're out there in the sun for too long, then you can start to actually cause damage to the skin. The skin can start to blister off and cause redness, pain, soreness, and even increase the risk of skin cancer. Another thing that people can do sometimes with tanning, they believe that they don't have to wear any sunscreen to tan. You can put a mild amount of sunscreen on, a thin layer, that will help reduce that damage that could happen to the skin and still end up with a tanning effect from it. But putting a thin layer of an SPF 30 is actually protective and will still give you that tanning result that you're looking for.

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