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- Without sun protection, it's impossible to accomplish any meaningful skin
lightening of age spots or melasma, it's also impossible to stop wrinkles.
- Add to that the fact that anyone exfoliating their skin to improve its appearance
is more at risk for sun damage and MUST wear a sun screen.
- The final motivation is that tanned skin after our teens and early adult years
just starts to look rough and leathery.
Basically, just about everyone needs sunscreen, every day. Most of us don't want
to hear that and so I've searched long and hard for products that work for my patients.
Finding one that stays on during active, sweaty, wet activities and doesn't sting
the eyes has been a particular challenge. Raw Elements Eco Stick Sunscreen is the best
non-migrating mineral sunscreen for the delicate eye area. It's also great for people
with sensitive skin.
Please see my tips for using sunscreen below.
Dr. Bailey's Sunscreen Application Tips:
- Apply mineral zinc oxide sunscreens last, after all other skin care products but under make-up. This is because the zinc oxide particles sit on top of the skin where they reflect light. All skin care products that work by penetrating into the skin must be applied first.
- Zinc oxide sunscreens including the Raw Elements Eco Stick will be invisible on your skin if you rub the product onto your skin well after applying. This helps to disperse the particles evenly on your skin surface so that they protect you with a fine transparent layer.
- Eye sensitivity is not typically a problem with Raw Elements Eco Stick because the product is non-migrating. This makes it the perfect sunscreen for around and above the eye area and for swimming, diving, cycling or any wet or sweaty activity.
Dr. Cynthia Bailey Wants You To Know These Important Facts About Sunscreen
It's my opinion that zinc oxide is the best sunscreen ingredient for broad spectrum UVA and UVB sun protection.
Zinc oxide, and its cousin titanium dioxide, are considered mineral sunscreens (and are also called physical sunscreens). When applied to your skin these mineral/physical sunscreens sit on top of your skin and bounce off the UV rays just like bouncing a ball off of a wall. They provide non-irritating, hypoallergenic broad spectrum UVA and UVB protection that you can trust. Nano technology made it possible for mineral sunscreen to be applied invisibly to your skin. New zinc oxide technology has made it possible for even non-nano zinc oxide products to rub almost invisibly onto your skin too.
Mineral sunscreens are the only sunscreens that I trust and recommend. That's because the other type of sunscreens, called chemical sun screens (and also confusingly also called ‘organic' sunscreens!), actually absorb into the top of your skin and block the sun rays with a chemical reaction that occurs within your skin itself. The reaction creates a little heat, which make you feel even hotter in the sun. More importantly, it breaks down the chemical sunscreen ingredients so that they aren't there to protect you anymore. Thus your skin steadily runs out of the chemical sunscreens when you're in the sun.
The mineral sunscreens on the other hand last longer on your skin because the UV rays don't break them down like this. They're also more stable in the sunscreen bottle than ‘chemical' sunscreens, which break down while they sit on the bottle waiting for you to buy them and use them.
Of the mineral sunscreen ingredients, I recommend only zinc oxide and not titanium dioxide because it rubs onto your skin better and gives better broad spectrum protection.
Remember, harmful and aging UV sun rays come through most windows. You need to apply sunscreen to the all exposed areas of your skin every day even if you don't plan to spend time outdoors. Applying a mineral zinc oxide sunscreen should be part of your daily skin care routine!
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Product Ingredients: Raw Elements SPF 30 Sunscreen Eco Stick
Active Ingredient: Zinc Oxide 22.75%. Inactive: Organic Sunflower Oil, Organic Green
Tea, Organic Black Tea, Organic Hemp Seed Oil, Organic Cocoa Butter, All Natural Mango
Butter, Organic Beeswax, All Natural Candelilla Wax, All Natural Rosemary Oil Extract,
All Natural Vitamin E (All ingredients marked organic are Certified Organic, Zinc
Oxide is an FDA Category 1 Skin Protectant, Raw Element's Eco Stick Zinc Oxide has
average particle size of less than 200nm and is not considered 'nano'.
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