Hi, I'm Dr. Rashmi Shetty, your skin expert at Glamrs.com
Today, I'm going to tell you everything about sunscreen,
one of the most important skin care regime
for anyone,
any age and wherever you stay especially in a temperate zone like India.
Sunscreen is the best anti-ageing gift that you can give to your own skin.
So how exactly does sun damage you?
UVA is the main culprit in causing the damage
which causes ageing or rather accelerates ageing.
It not only causes damage to the skin on the top layer of the skin,
it goes deep down to even alter your DNA.
So it's super important for you to apply sunscreen
if you want to age gracefully,
if you don't want your dark spots,
if you don't want skin going red, sensitive
and therefore later pigmented
and also if you want to avoid your cancers.
However UVB is only going to hit you superficially and cause you burning.
So what do you most times think when you're out in the sun
if it is not burning, if it's not going red, I'm safe!
No, you're not protected from UVA
which is quietly doing all the damage.
So it's extremely important for you to apply sunscreen
whether you are indoors, whether you're outdoors,
on a cloudy day, on a rainy day, on a winter day, on a summer day.
Just like cosmetics and other skin care product,
sunscreen also comes in different formulations.
Depending on where you are, how long is your sun exposure,
what is your skin type, you need to pick up the right one.
So when it is a creamy sunscreen,
it's best suited for an older skin, for a skin which is dry,
for a skin which is sensitive so that it is on a creamy base,
so it is soft, it is nice to apply,
easily spreading on your skin as well as does not really dry your skin up.
And if you're the type who doesn't like to stay in front of the mirror
and apply ten things one on top of the other
then this also will give you enough hydration for the skin.
So if you have a dry skin, if you have an ageing skin,
and if you're pretty much 40 plus and have a normal skin,
you can still try the cream.
Yet another variety is emulsion,
which means to say it's more like milk.
It's not thick and creamy, it's more like milk and flowy and fluid,
Therefore, it is best suited for oily skin type.
So it gives you that sun protection that you require sans the cream.
So therefore it still keeps you mattified,
it still keeps your skin not looking dark,
nice and bright and still gives you the protection.
If you're choosing an emulsion because you have an acne prone skin
and you have really infected postules or acne onto your face,
be careful not to go right over your postule and burst it
and then continue moving the cream to the rest of the face.
There is a new variety, the gel cream, which is my current favourite
because if when you apply it, it just gets like a cream
but when you apply it, it has this absolutely mattifying
powdery effect on your skin.
Usually comes at a 30 SPF, absolutely perfect
for a very oily skin, for an acne prone skin.
If you have larger body parts that you need to protect,
there are the new age spray which is available in 30, 50.
I have even seen the 80 SPF which is fantastic.
Just keep it a foot away from your hand or your leg or your feet
and just do an even spray
and it fantastically covers the whole surface.
If you're applying sunscreen that comes in as a cream
then you take a bit of the cream on your finger,
dot it all over your face.
Use just about probably two fingers and nicely spread it all over your face.
Make sure you have adequate
quantity of the sunscreen and
not too thin a layer that it does not deliver what it promises.
If your skin is very dry while you're using the cream sunscreen
you could also use a mist or a spray of water
and then hydrate the skin and then apply the cream
so it's much more easy to move your fingers on your skin.
The common skin care habit that I've seen is you just
plunk in some cream onto your hand whether it is a sunscreen
or a face moisturiser, do this and just go and apply.
Please don't treat your face like that.
If you're using a sunscreen which is in the emulsion format
then again you do the same thing.
Take a little bit of emulsion on your fingertips,
apply it on your face and gently massage it all over.
It's very important to understand,
you're just not protecting your face from the sun,
your hands, your neck, your feet,
your every exposed part needs to be protected.
Therefore protecting your entire body is very important
and one common thing that we forget to protect on the face,
is the lips.
There are wonderful lip balms now
available with SPF in it,
so you could just use it like any other lip balm
apply it on your lip before you really step out,
stops the lip from darkening, stop the lip from drying up.
So when do you actually put your
sunscreen in the steps of things that you go through
from a moisturiser to your makeup?
So you usually if you have a dry skin you either use a mist or a spray on your face
or you could use a primer or a lotion or a moisturiser on your face
and then apply the sunscreen.
If you're undergoing a treatment like an anti-ageing or anti-acne
then you first use what the doctor has asked you to use
which is the medicated creams and lotions and potions.
Then you use your moisturiser if need be
and then you use a sunscreen.
If you're going out and you need to apply makeup
then you do the step one two and three
which means to say the sunscreen comes last and
on top of it comes your coloured makeup.
This now must have cleared all your doubts about sunscreen.
So go enjoy pick your right sunscreen with all the
bright coloured bottles out there and keep your skin protected.
Thanks for watching until next time, here's to a happy skin!