How to Cure Skin Problems

Many people get affected by skin problems and most of them occur due to an unhealthy diet or unhygienic environment.

It doesn't mean washing your face will be your work. The polluted environment includes air pollution and sun damage.

How to know if my skin is damaged by the sun rays? Here are some signs that your skin is getting damaged by UV rays.

In This Article
A. Skin Problems

1. Wrinkles
2. Age Spots
3. Sagging Neck
4. Chapped Lips
5. Red-brown Patches
6. Resaca
7. Eczema

 B. How Sunscreen Gel Can Cure Sun Damage Skin Problem

1. What does Broad Spectrum Protection Means?
2. Is Miniaturization Important?
3. Why to look at SPF number
4. Is there any Water resistance Sunscreen that I can apply while swimming
5. Which Sunscreen Can Harm my Skin?

A. Skin Problems

1. Wrinkles

At one age we all get wrinkles. Wrinkles are commonly associated with natural aging. However, UV rays from the sun can cause up to 90% of skin aging.

UVA rays from the sun tear down important proteins in your skin, collagen, and elastin, which help in maintaining your skin’s structure and flexibility. With scarcer collagen and elastin, your skin looser and you can start to see more wrinkles.

2. Age Spots on face

Age spots are brown or grey spots that look like enlarged freckles.

They’re areas of extra pigmentation that result from overexposure to the sun.

It could be of different sizes and look in areas on your body where mostly you get more sun exposure, like your face, hands, and arms.

Thankfully, there some products like Sunscreen Gel that you can apply to avoid these skin problems.

3. Sagging Neck

Sun exposure can easily damage the skin around your neck. If you ever saw that dark black neck.

UV rays from the sun break down collagen and elastic in the skin around your neck, which normally keeps your neck and chin skin firm.

With too much contact with the sun, you may notice a bit of a ‘turkey neck’, where your throat skin becomes looser.

4. Chapped Lips

Even for the most sunscreen gel users, there is one place that they forget and that’s the lips.

Long-term exposure of the lips to UV rays can lead to a condition known as actinic cheilitis. Symptoms include:
Chronically chapped,
Dry,
And scaly lips,
Affecting mainly the lower lip. That can be cured by applying lip balm or sunscreen Gel SPF 50.

**This condition may lead to skin cancer if you don't take it seriously**

5. Red-brown Patches

Other points that can form on your skin with some red-brown patches of scaly skin.

This is also called actinic kurtosis, it causes due to long term sun exposure and gets harmed by UVA and UVB rays. These patches could feel a little rough and can also resemble scabs.

It is a very serious condition that can also cancerous; you should get it checked out with a dermatologist.

If there are other irregular moles on your skin, you should also visit a medical professional.

6. Rosacea

A persistent skin disease that goes through periods of fading and relapse

Relapses may be triggered by fresh foods, alcoholic beverages, sunlight, stress, and intestinal bacteria.

These subtypes of rosacea encompassing are a wide variety of symptoms

Symptoms include raised, facial flushing, facial redness, red bumps, skin dryness, and skin sensitivity

7. Eczema

White and yellow scaly patches of that flake

Redness, itchy, greasy, or oily is symptoms of it

Rashes and hair loss may occur at the same place

B. How Sunscreen Gel Can Cure Sun Damage

First off, it's important to apply a broad-spectrum sunscreen gel with an SPF of at least 50 especially in India, and use other forms of sun protection like sun protective clothing and sunglasses. So it could protect from Sun Damage and Nourite it with its moisturising.

1. What does Broad Spectrum Protection Means?

A product or something that can protect your skin from UVA and UVB is called Broad Spectrum Protection. That is important to prevent any sun damage or sunburn.

2. Is Miniaturization Important?

Human skin made up of water and we must consume as much we could. Same with our skin, dry skin is a sign if week skin that can be harmed easily. So choose a sunscreen gel with the moisturizing ability and hydrate it deep inside the skin.

3. Which SPF is best for face?

For your thicker, rougher and bold skin your need high SPF Sunscreen, then you must go for Sunscreen with SPF 50. "If you can hold for 10 minutes and more under the sun till you feel a sunburn or sensation of heat from inside, then with broad spectrum sunscreen gel SPF 50 will help in extending that time by 50x helping you tolerate it for 500 or more times and your skin will not get burned".

4. Is there any Water resistance Sunscreen that I can apply while swimming

Not all brands offer you "water resistant" sunscreen withstands 80 minutes immersed in water. But there is some brand like Derma Essentia, working hard to give you a top notch product like Sunscreen Gel Based loaded with goodness.

**Water resistant sunscreen must be reapplied every 2 hours - especially after towel drying!**

5. Which Sunscreen Can Harm my Skin?

Beware of These Ingredients Present in Sunscreen SPF 50

Avobenzone: A primary agent used in most commercial sunscreens that have been considered relatively safe, but can release free radicals to increase skin aging.

Dioxybenzone: Known to show evidence of skin toxicity.

Homosalate: Absorbed by the skin and accumulates in our bodies at a fast rate that can become disruptive to hormones.

Oxybenzone: It causes eczema-like reactions that can spread beyond exposed areas the longer someone stays in the sun.

PABA: An ingredient most commonly used as a dye to absorb UVB rays that results in allergic reactions and produces stains on clothing.

Parabens: Preservatives in sunscreen linked to abnormal testes asthma, development, infertility, allergies, breast cancer, and tumors. Not every great sunscreen comes free of these ingredients.

In fact, some require a small amount for their respective formulas to work more effectively. Oxybenzone and octinoxate are not harmful, but “can cause allergic reactions for those with sensitive skin.” So be careful before choosing Sunscreen SPF 50 Gel for you.