How do you fight skin aging? Sunscreen is key, says skin expert

If there’s one factor that you shouldn’t skip in your skincare routine, whatever the climate and the place you’re on the planet, it’s sunscreen.

It has been mentioned again and again that utilizing sunscreen every day is probably the most cost-effective and safety measure to struggle pores and skin growing old and different critical diseases like pores and skin most cancers.

In a summer-centric occasion hosted by Anessa Philippines, board-certified dermatologist Windie Villarica-Hayano mentioned “95% of skin aging is due to the sun.”

“If there’s something that you can do that is cost-effective, sustainable, and will do you well from this day forward, it will be using a sunscreen, and a good sunscreen at that,” Windie mentioned.

The pores and skin knowledgeable additionally burdened that it doesn’t matter whether or not you’re a person or a girl, “the sun doesn’t discriminate.”

“It doesn’t have anything to do kung lalaki ka, kung babae ka, your skin, all of us, are exposed to this [harmful UV rays],” she mentioned.

“Laging sinasabi na ‘yung mga lalaki, dapat ikahiya ‘yun, hindi dapat kinakahiya ang paggamit ng sunscreen,” she added.

For Filipinos and Asians in general, Windie said the most common skin diseases they complain about are Melasma (Pekas), sunspots, and freckles.

“Once nagkaroon na tayo ng mga ganyan, ibig sabihin, may damage na yung balat,” she said.

“We have to think about [applying sunscreen] as healthcare, and not just self-care dahil walang pinipili ang skin cancer, and skin cancer is due to unfiltered UVA/UVB,” she added.

As previously explained by Dr. Vicki Belo to GMA News Online, UVA or Ultraviolet A is aging rays, and UVB or Ultraviolet B is burning rays, “and you have to have sunscreen for both.”

“UVA, which can penetrate very deep into our skin and cause a significant amount of inflammation and disease, can pass through indoors, so you need protection even if you’re in a roundabout way uncovered to the solar,” Windie mentioned.

In addition, an earlier report highlighted the significance of utilizing sunscreens even on wet days. —JCB, GMA Integrated News