Skin School
Generally speaking, when it comes to sun protection you may be surprised to hear that there is only a small portion of the sun’s radiation reaches the earth’s surface. 40% of this is the infra-red known as the “heat” and 5% as the invisible UVA and UVB rays.
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Although its name is very complicated, the ingredient Bis-Ethylhexyloxyphenol Methoxyphenyl Triazine is rather simple in how it works. It is known as the best performing sunscreen available on the market, often found in modern day sunscreen formulations due to the fact it is able to provide peak protection from UVB and UVA rays and remain photostable meaning its protection hardly deteriorates from the skin when exposed to UV light
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Butyl Methoxydibenzoylmenthane is the most used ingredient in sunscreen formulations due to its ability to provide gold standard UVA protection. Used globally offers protection at 360 nm but sadly is not photostable meaning it begins to degrade when exposure to the sunlight which is why you need to remain vigilant ensuring you reapply sunscreen on an hourly basis.
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