Your Skin is Important

• Skin Care
• Caring For Your Skin Through The Seasons
• Crow's feet: The cause and the cure
• Insect Repellant and skin care
• Keeping the skin soft: Not just for girls
• Preventing Acne
• Steambaths, Saunas: Good or Bad
• The cause of dry itchy skin
• The skin of your feet
• Treating Acne
• Your Skin and the Sun

• Wrinkles
• A Quick Look on Wrinkles
• Does stress cause wrinkles?
• Facial excercises and wrinkles
• How do we get wrinkles?
• How to combat crows feet
• How to prevent wrinkles
• How to slow down the process of getting wrinkles
• Laser surgery and wrinkles
• Natural remedies for wrinkles
• Remove wrinkles with botox
• What exactly is in wrinkle creams?

• Network
• Stretch Marks

Your Skin and the Sun

As a child you most likely spent a lot of time running and playing in the summer heat, swimming in the local swimming hole or backyard pool and just generally having a good time. All this activity was rarely discouraged, as the practice of cavorting in the sun has been handed down from generation to generation, as parents pile their children into the family sedan and make the trek to the ocean for fun in the sun. But as modern science and medicine learns more and more about the world and humanity's place in it, there are fewer and fewer sun bathers to be seen on the beaches of the world.

With the advent of the modern age, many new facts and a ton of information has been researched about the sun and it's effects on the skin. Ultraviolet radiation emitted by the sun causes damage to the skin over time, leading to wrinkling, blotching and even cancer in the epidermal layer. This new information has led many to resist the temptation of many to visit the beach and frolic in the surf as the sun beats down on them. This changed attitude towards fun in the sun has been reflected world wide, as less and less people are making the journey to the ocean and are instead opting to stay indoors.

While this trend of staying out of the sun is significantly pronounced in the modern age, there are still many who choose to spend their time in the sun, risking the full brunt of the sun's rays. While the facts about sun damage and the skin are reasonably well known, some still refuse to heed the advice of those who council staying indoors as much as possible. Living life in the sun is a strong temptation for many, and despite the warnings of experts, beach goers and vacationers expose themselves to the sun on a regular basis for the benefit of darkening their skin.

The effects of the sun and long term exposure to the skin are well known, and can be deadly to those who suffer direct exposure to solar radiation for extended periods of time. While the effects of this radiation in the form of cancer or cancerous growth can take years to become evident, the more immediate effect of repeated exposure to solar rays is wrinkling, drying and premature aging of the skin. This process of premature aging sets in very quickly in those who spend inordinate amounts of time in direct sunlight and is a noticeable indicator of sun damage to the skin.

Although it is considered good for the skin to bathe in the ocean and it's salt water, the exposure to the sun can be the worst thing for your skin. For those who want to swim and still be protected from the sun and it's damaging effects, a high SPF sun block can provide some limited protection from the solar rays, but the user is required to reapply frequently, and the use of sun block is no substitute for staying out of the sun completely.