Family Wellness: Summer Skin – How to Reverse Harmful Sun Damage

 Entry #1478, August 18, 2012

Stagetecture announced last week that the new Wellness category will start featuring helpful tips for us, the people who enjoy our homes. From family and children tips, to skin care, beauty and men’s health information. While Stagetecture will still be dedicated to the home, we also want to bring you important info that affects you!

Brown sugar makes a great skin exfoliate – perfect for summer skin

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Now that summer is in full swing how are you treating your skin? Have you been wearing sunscreen? Have you gotten skin burn despite your efforts? According to Women’s Health, there are still ways to reverse skin damage! Here are tips that will help keep your skin looking its best and still protecting it up from future skin damage.

Step 1: Exfoliate The Right Way

You want to smooth your skin to create brightness and luster, and chemical exfoliation is the best way to do just that, Schultz says. Chemical exfoliation dissolves dead skin cells instead of scrubbing them off (usually unevenly) the way buffers and granule cleansers do.

Step 2: Beat Brown Spots

The next step is to rid yourself of those brown splotches. While the product you need is commonly called “skin bleach,” there’s nothing bleachy about it. It will have the end effect of lightening the brown areas of your skin, but it will do so by stopping the skin’s uneven production of melanin (brown pigment) that your skin churns out when it tries to fight UV radiation.

Are you protecting your skin this summer?

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Step 3: Burn No More

To maintain your improvement, use sunscreen every day to prevent additional damage. New FDA recommendations emphasize using sunscreen labeled as broad spectrum (meaning it protects against both UVA and UVB rays) with SPF values of 15 or higher.

Step 4: Arm Yourself With Antioxidants

Dermatologists recommends nightly use of antioxidant-rich topical creams. Antioxidants help protect the skin’s DNA to prevent cancer while also protecting the collagen and elastic tissue from free radicals that can cause wrinkles and sagging skin.

Take in plenty of antioxidants

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