the importance of sun protection beyond creams

A new trend on social networks terrifies doctors: it’s a sun callusa risqué hoax that’s been circulating online, with dozens of users urging them to join the wave of sun blisters.

“You need to be in the sun all year round”, they say on TikTok, thus creating, according to the challenge, a sun protection layer. However, this has no scientific basis and these so-called experts explain how to achieve immunity to sunlight.

“They penetrate less and therefore we don’t get burned,” assuring and all this, of course, without protective creambecause, as they explain, exposure to the sun without this protection will allow them to develop “their sun callus.”

Moreover, according to them, it is creams cause health problems and that the way to prevent skin cancer is through a dangerous sun callus.

Boticaria García spoke to us in Now Sonsoles magazine about sunscreens, as well as other products that delivered orally and which complement the protection of these creams.

One of the newest connections is polypodium leucotomos, an extract of an aquatic plant that was exposed to the sun, exposed, and began to produce compounds for protection. It was extracted and made into a pill for people.

On the other hand, we have Vitamin Cwhich synthesizes collagen and is found in foods such as citrus fruits, peppers or parsley, and vitamin E

present in oils and seeds. There is also curcumin, which has an anti-inflammatory effect.