Yes, you get it right from title of article, today we will discuss all about “What one should use sunscreen or sun block cream?” Which one is best sunscreen or sunblock cream? What to use sunscreen or Sunblock cream and what to not? Yes this is the major question of today of health conscious people that market is flooded today with both sunscreens and sunblock creams of different kinds and they do not know what to use or what to not? And variety is too much in terms of SPF range of sunscreen and sunblock cream that if a person decides to buy either of sunscreen or sunblock cream or both, then other thing which becomes difficult to decide or choose is which SPF range of sunscreen and sun block cream is best for which skin type?
Now, come answers to all your questions related to
sunscreens, sunblock creams for example what to use sunscreen or sunblock
cream? Which one is better sunscreen or sunblock cream? Which one is better in
terms of providing protection from harmful effects of ultraviolet rays of sun,
sunscreen or sunblock cream? What protection does each of them offer? What
protection level does sunscreen offer and what protection level does sun cream
offer? Which one has more advantages, sunscreen or sunblock cream? What
advantages and disadvantages does each of them offer? And what does term SPF mean?
Now, comes answer to your question what does term SPF
means? SPF is short form of term Sun Protection Factor. Sun protection factor
is a kind of rating in which sunscreens and sun block creams are rated or
graded in terms of giving protection from harmful ultraviolet rays of sun. The
minimum or lowest range of SPF for sunscreen and sun blocks cream which is
considered to provide protection against harmful ultraviolet rays of sun is SPF
15. All the sunscreens and sunblock creams start from range of SPF 15 and go
higher and higher in range up to SPF 60. Higher SPF goes above SPF 15 range of
sunscreen and sunblock cream, higher is protection it provides in terms of
protecting from harmful effects of ultraviolet rays of sun. So this was about
which SPF range of sunscreen and sunblock cream one should use. SPF 15 is the considered
safest option in terms of giving protection from harmful ultraviolet rays of
sun. Higher SPF goes above SPF 15; higher is protection it provides in terms of
protecting from harmful ultraviolet rays of sun. So, more the SPF above SPF 15,
more protected is skin from harmful ultraviolet rays of sun.
Now, next questions which come to mind are what
protection does sunscreen offer and what protection does sunblock cream offer
in terms of providing protection from harmful ultraviolet rays of sun? Which is
better sunscreen or sunblock cream? What advantages and disadvantage does each
of them offer? When to use sunscreen and when to use sunblock cream? What types
of sunscreens or sunblock creams are available in market these days?
Sunscreens are topically applied pharmaceutical preparations that mean they are applied over surface of skin. Sunscreen is a pharmaceutical preparation made from chemical agents such as benzophenone or derivatives of benzophenone. These chemical agents possess property of reflecting back UVB rays that is ultraviolet B rays of sun and thus help in protecting skin from harmful effects of ultraviolet B rays of sun. That is sunscreen protects your skin from damage done by UVB that is ultraviolet B rays of sun that is it protects you from sun-burn, skin tissue damage which ultraviolet B rays produce on your skin, it also protects your skin from wrinkles and age sports formed on your skin from over exposure to ultraviolet B rays of sun.
The only disadvantage that sunscreen has is that it
does not protect your skin from harmful effects of UVA rays of sun that is ultraviolet A rays of sun, they get passed through layer
of sunscreen over your skin and does not protect your skin from harmful effects
of UVA rays that is ultraviolet A rays of sun. UVA rays cause sun-tanning and
also weaken immune system of body that is they decrease immunity of body. So
that means sunscreen does not protect your skin from sun tanning and from
immune system getting weakened by UVA rays of sun but they do protect your skin
from sunburn, skin tissue damage which UVB rays of sun do to your skin and also
prevents wrinkling and age spots that UVB rays produce on skin.
These days sunscreens are available in market for
every skin type. Use sunscreen which is sweatproof that is does not get washed
away from skin due to sweating and sunscreen should be waterproof so that it
does not get washed away due to splashes of water during swimming or during
rainy weather.
Which range of SPF of sunscreen one should use that I
have already told you above in this article and how frequently you should apply
sunscreen in day that depends upon how much sweatproof and waterproof your
sunscreen is? If your sunscreen is waterproof and sweatproof then you can
reapply it after six hours of first application but if you work too much in sun
that is your skin is exposed to harsh rays of sun in excess that is there is overexposure
of sun to skin and there is too much of perspiration then you need to use sweatproof
and oil free sunscreen which is also good for oily skin and you need to reapply
it after every three hours.
Now next questions which come to mind are what is sunblock cream? What protection sunblock creams offer? And how frequently you should reapply them on your skin? What advantages and disadvantages do sunblock cream have?
Sunblock creams and lotions are pharmaceutical or
chemical preparations which are topically applied to skin like sunscreen but
they are much thicker in consistency than sunscreens. They are made from
substances like zinc oxide which have property of reflecting back and
protecting the skin from both ultraviolet A and ultraviolet B rays of sun. Yes,
you get it right, that sun-block cream protect skin from both ultraviolet A and
ultraviolet B rays of sun and does not let them produce their harmful effects
on skin. That is sunblock creams and lotions protect your skin from
sun-tanning, sunburn, tissue damage done to your skin by harsh ultraviolet rays
of sun. It also helps in preventing wrinkles and age spots produced by harsh
ultraviolet rays of sun. It does not let your immune system get weakened by harsh
ultraviolet rays of sun by reflecting them back and hence protect the skin from
harmful effects of ultraviolet rays of sun.
Sunblock creams
and lotion do these all above benefits because they does not let both types of ultraviolet
rays that is ultraviolet A and ultraviolet B rays to pass beneath its
protective sheath, instead they reflect and scatter them back. As sunblock
creams and lotions are much thicker in consistency, so you do not need to
reapply them frequently. They last on skin up to seven to eight hours and does
not get easily washed away. Use oil free sunblock cream or lotion if your skin
is oily and if your skin is dry then use oil based. There is lot of variety of sunblock
cream and lotions and sunscreens available in market according to each skin
type, dry, oily, normal and sensitive. Use that one which is for your skin
type. So in terms of advantages sunblock creams and lotions are more beneficial
than sunscreen. Sunblock creams and lotions provide double protection from
harmful effects of both ultraviolet A and ultraviolet B rays of sun whereas
sunscreen protects skin from only ultraviolet B rays of sun, but not from ultraviolet
A rays of sun, so protection provided by sunscreen is half. The only disadvantage
of sunblock cream or lotion is that due to its thicker consistency your skin
sweats more than when using sunscreen.
So this was all about what one should use sunscreen or sunblock cream? and Why? But do you know What Health Benefits Lemon provide to Skin?