Wrinkles and Pigmentation Don’t Happen Overnight
Take a look and compare. You’ll notice that the skin on your face and hands, as well as other areas exposed to the sun, look noticeably more aged than the skin on your stomach and other areas covered by clothing, hence not exposed to the sun.
As you know, sun-tanning is bad for your skin. Even if you don’t indulge in regular outdoor activities, daily sun exposure even from just driving, walking etc, can lead to wrinkles, pigmentation, sagging and on a more serious note, skin cancer.
Skin damage and aging happen as a result of accumulative sun exposure over the years. It doesn’t happen overnight. If you don’t protect your skin daily from sun exposure, anti-wrinkle creams and whitening creams would not be able to work as they should on your skin.
What Are the Other Effects of Sun Exposure?
Your skin is your body’s first line of defence. It is where important immune cells such as the langerhan cells are located.
Studies have shown that the langerhan cells are very vulnerable to sun exposure, to the extent that even brief sun exposure could disable the skin’s immune system for the time-being.
Therefore, besides affecting the beauty of your skin, regular, unprotected sun-exposure could compromise the body’s health condition too.
Other Daytime Hazards: Environmental Pollutants
For city-dwellers, besides UV rays, other skin hazards to look out for include pollutants emitted from vehicles, ozone, etc. Not only do such pollutants choke up your skin, they also generate lots of free radicals. Thus, besides protecting your skin from the sun, a good day cream must also be able to protect your skin effectively from the harmful effects of pollutants.
Multiple Protective Functions of Protective Hydrator
After studying methods to fight the harmful effects of long-term sun exposure, Vitasence has formulated an ‘ultra smart’ day cream. Special bioactives are combined using the principle of synergy so that your skin will enjoy the best, total protection from UVA and UVB rays as well as harsh pollutants in the environment. What’s more, it also neutralizes free radicals produced by chemicals and pollutants and optimizes your skin’s cellular functions. Thus, you can enjoy beautiful and healthy skin for life.
1. Ultra-Micronized Titanium Dioxide
Ultramicronized titanium dioxide is one of the best sunscreen agents available for protecting even the most delicate skin. It is natural, safe and non-sensitizing. Unlike most organic sunscreens, ultra-micronized titanium dioxide has the capability to block out BOTH UVA and UVB rays. Remember, you need a sunscreen that does both jobs because UVA is the one that causes skin darkening, aging and cancer while UVB causes burning, redness and cancer.
2. Thermus Thermophilus (TT)
TT, derived from the natural marine environment of the Gulf of California, is a biotechnologically cultured bioactive. It is discovered that even while being constantly exposed to extreme levels of heat, free radicals and radiation in its native environment, TT continue to survive and thrive. Therefore, the biological properties of TT became a subject of much intrigue with scientists. Extensive tests and studies revealed that TT is able to adapt to the level of hazards in the environment because it has developed a natural resistance which is powerful and enabled it to protect itself from the harmful environment.
On the skin, TT demonstrates superb protective and cell regenerative functions. It is nicknamed as the ’smart’ bioactive because it could ’sense’ the level of protection required by the skin against heat, radiation and free radicals in the environment. It will then ‘rise to the occasion’ to provide the required amount of protection.
In addition, TT stimulates cell regeneration and strengthens the barrier function of the skin. Its powerful antioxidant properties(many times more powerful than Vitamin E) help to shield the skin from the free radicals generated by the sun and pollutants in the environment.
3. Bio-Immuno Complex
The langerhans cells form an important part of the skin’s immune system. However, they are extremely vulnerable to heat and radiation generated by the sun which could temporarily disable the function of the langerhans cells, thus compromising the skin’s immune system. Bio-Immuno Complex actually protects and supports the activity of langerhan cells, thus supporting the natural defence of the skin.
4. Yeast Ferment
Consistent exposure to the UV rays could destroy the DNA of cells. To combat this, biotechnologically derived yeast ferment is used as they have been shown to be useful in protecting the cells’ DNA and preventing their damage and deterioration.
5. Beta Glucan
Beta glucan is a natural compound derived from oats and mushroom. Besides its wonderfully soothing and healing properties, it also helps to boost the skin’s immune and repair functions.
6. Oxido Reductase
Oxido reductase is a powerful enzyme which protects the lipid layer of the skin from damage and rapidly quenches free radicals produced by ozone in the environment.
Coreenna Ong, co-founder of Vitasence, is an expert in the use of Chinese and Western herbs in health and beauty care. She has appeared in numerous TV programs to share her expertise and has contributed articles to national publications. For more information on Vitasence and sun care products, please visit How to Protect Your Skin From Sun Damage