3 Sunscreen Myths You Need to Know This Summer

We all know the importance of sunscreen this time of year, but some of the stuff we’ve always believed about sunscreen is a myth:

"HIGHER SPF’S ARE BETTER": SPF 50 blocks 98% of UV rays. SPF 100 blocks 99%. Experts say to use anything above SPF 30 and reapply every 2 hours.

"SUNSCREEN BLOCKS VITAMIN D": No sunscreen blocks all rays. You’ll get plenty of Vitamin D.

"A BASE TAN PROTECTS THE SKIN FROM DAMAGE": Any time you spend in the sun without sunscreen raises the risk of developing skin cancer.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
So sunscreen, there's some myths. Did you know this? For example,
higher spfs we think are always better. Y SPF fifty
blocks ninety eight percent of UV, SPF one hundred blocks
ninety nine percent of UV. One would think, I would
think that there's a big difference between SPF fifty and

(00:20):
SPF one hundred. Yeah, like double only two percent difference
in SPF fifty and one hundred fifty is at ninety
eight percent UV protection. SPF one hundred blocks ninety nine
percent of UV protection. So usually go for anything over
SPF thirty and then obviously apply when you need to reply.
Another myth about sunscreens that they block vitamin D. The

(00:43):
truth is no sunscreen blocks all rays. You will get
vitamin D.

Speaker 2 (00:46):
Okay, that's good.

Speaker 1 (00:48):
And finally, a base tan we think protects the skin
from damage. I gotta get my base so I can
work on it. I gotta get my base before I go,
get my base at home for I travel. Yeah, anytime
you spend time in the sun without sunscreen raises the
risk of you know, the issues you may have, So
your base tan doesn't really help in the way I
look at it. Yeah, I don't really ever get them
this is the first time I've been tan, and I

(01:09):
think a decade. Is that Tan? Yes? For me, this
is so Tan. No, it's great, but I'm saying it's red.

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