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Summer, winter, spring or autumn, sunscreen is never at the bottom. Once summer arrives, the need to rush to the nearest cosmetic or chemist shop to purchase a bottle of sunscreen lotion is overwhelming. But not only do these act as a helping hand in summers, these can be used in every season to prevent your skin from the damage it faces from the sun.

How often to Apply Sunscreen

Sunscreens act as a shield against the harmful ultra-violet rays radiated by the sun which tend to penetrate through the skin every time it is exposed in the broad daylight. To protect the skin from sunburns or damage, sunscreens should be used on a daily basis. When out in the sun, try to apply sunscreen lotion on your body after every two hours.

How to Use Sunscreen

There are a few things that should be taken care of when you pick a sunscreen.

• Always read the ingredient list and look out for the must-needed ingredients:
• Titanium dioxide
• Octylmethoxycinnimate (OMC)
• Avobenzone
• Zinc Oxide

• Choosing lotions which will protect you from the harmful UV rays of the sun, rashes, acne, sun burns and clogged burns, is helpful and beneficial for the skin as they are non-comedogenic and hypoallergic.
• A sunscreen with a minimum SPF of 30 and waterproof will work wonders on your skin.

After talking so much about sunscreens, let us look at the advantages of using a sunscreen lotion:

• Shields from the harmful Ultra-violet rays

Isn’t it always said that Vitamin D is good and essential for the body and sun is the best source of it?

Well, it definitely might be, but due to the depletion in the ozone layer, which blocks the harmful ultra-violet rays of the sun, these harmful rays enter the atmosphere of the earth and damage the skin. Applying sunscreen on your skin before you go out in the sun definitely blocks those harmful rays from penetrating the skin.

• Lowers Skin Cancer risks

Always considered as a beauty product, its health benefits come side by side. Wearing the sunscreen daily shields the skin from various kinds of skin cancer, especially, melanoma. Threatening particularly to the girls in the age group of 20, this type of skin cancer can be life-taking.

• Prevents Sunburns

The skin becomes subjected to more and more bruises because sunburn weakens the skin. The damage that sunburn causes can lead to repeated peeling of the skin, redness, swelling, hive and itching. So applying sunscreen and staying put seems the easiest way.

• Offers better protection than a Full sleeves Dress

Come on, will you even think of wearing a full-sleeved dress in the scorching heat of June, just to protect your skin? No, right?

Also, do you know a cotton dress, when damp, provides absolutely zero protection from the harmful UV rays?

Apply a generous amount of sunscreen and stop yourself from wearing the torturous full-sleeved dress and not-so-helping cotton dress to safeguard yourself from the sun.

• Prevents Pre-mature Aging

Girls are known for keeping their age a BIG secret. Well, to provide an extra set of locks to that secret, sunscreen helps stop your skin from developing signs of aging such as wrinkles and free lines. Wow. Now look younger, radiant and own a healthy skin by just applying sunscreen lotion to your skin daily.

• Prevents Tanning

Everybody is worried about having two complexions on their hands, aren’t they? One part of the hand always under cover is much fairer than the part exposed to the sun. Applying sunscreen helps in preventing tanning.