Learn How To Balance Exposure To The Sun Eucerin Goody Bag Giveaway!

Balancing Exposure to the Sun

• Factor #1 – Sunlight
  • The strength of sunlight is the main factor for the quantity of UV radiation your skin can be exposed to. Latitude, altitude, time of day, season and cloud coverage can all have a dramatic effect on the sun’s impact on our skin. Even reflected sunlight from windows, pavement, water, snow and sand can raise the risk of overexposure.
• Factor #2 – Skin Color
  • As skin color is determined by the amount of melanin present in the skin, ethnicity can also play a large role in sun exposure. Often a result of a group’s distance from the equator (and its stronger sunlight), darker skins are more resistant to the effects of sunlight than fairer skins. African-Americans, for example, are 20 times less likely to develop melanoma than those with white skin.  Conversely, one study found that African-American women aged 15 to 49 have more than 20 times the risk of vitamin D deficiency than Caucasians.  Different skin colors will react to UV rays at different speeds. So one should be mindful of her skin’s susceptibilities when considering her exposure time or adding protection.
• FACTOR #3 – Sunscreen
  • The strength of sunscreen is determined by its Sun Protection Factor (SPF), a number that measures the amount of UV radiation required to sunburn with the sunscreen on, relative to the amount that would burn skin without it. For example, SPF-15 allows about 1/15 (about 6%) of the UV rays that would penetrate the skin without the sunscreen on. SPF-30 would allow 1/30 (about 3%) and so on.

I hope you found these tips just as helpful as I did.  You can continue to be informed on how best to protect your skin by joining us to renew our collective commitment to healthy skin from the inside out at Skin First!  Even though summer is coming to an end, that doesn’t mean the risk of sun damage isn’t prevalent in the next coming months.  Let’s continue to look for ways to enrich your whole self, physically, and mentally.  If you haven’t taken the Skin First Pledge yet, I highly encourage that you join so you can learn more about how you can make skin health a priority for you and your loved ones.  As we move forward to renew our commitment to optimum skin health, Eucerin would like to extend another goody bag giveaway to my readers!

Giveaway Time (required entry): A lucky Blessings Abound Mommy reader will win a goody bag with a $50 Sunglass Hut gift card and Eucerin Everyday Protection Lotion in 15 and 30.  All you have to do in order to be qualified for a chance to win is to leave a comment with a new thing you learned about balancing your skin exposure!

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One winner will be chosen via Random Drawing.  Winners who I am unable to contact and who doesn’t claim their prize within 48 hours of being sent their winning email notification and me posting the winner of the prize in the winner’s section will forfeit their prize and prize will be held in a live contest following failure to claim.  Please follow directions or you will be disqualified!  This Blessing is open to bloggers and nonbloggers alike. You have from now until August 23rd at 11:59 PM (Alaska time) to comment and be entered for a chance to win.  I will randomly pick one winner and announce it here on my blog shortly after August 24th!  Blessing open to USA only!

*Product and information was provided free of charge in exchange for this post and giveaway from Eucerin and doesn’t affect my views or feedback of the product or service.  This post is based solely on my personal opinion and experience and results may vary person to person.