Tag: sunsafety
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What’s the best sunscreen to use?
Protect yourself for fun in the sun! Summer weather is here — are you ready to head outside and enjoy the beach, the mountains, or your own backyard? Before you step out into the sunshine, don’t forget to protect your body’s largest organ — your skin! When you shop for sun care nowadays, you’re faced…
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Caring for the Skin You’re in: Sun Safety
Massage therapists see a lot of skin. All colors, all textures. Freckles, scars, stretch marks, moles. Skin with lots of hair & skin with none. Skin doesn’t surprise us… …except when it does. That brown spot on your shoulder blade? It wasn’t quite that big when you came in a month ago. And it looks…
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(One of) my Favorite Things…
Did you know that you can add sun protection to clothing that you already own? SunGuard is a laundry additive from the company who gave us all access to our fabulous tie-dyed T-shirts in the 1960s (RIT dye, that is). SunGuard washes UPF 30* sun protection into your load of laundry (as long as the…
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Be Safe when You’re Outside!
Learn about Skin Cancer Awareness One in five Americans will develop skin cancer in the course of a lifetime. (Source: the Skin Cancer Foundation) In 2014, I was diagnosed with melanoma. It was caused by sunlight exposure… although I didn’t use tanning beds, I loved to be outside and rarely wore adequate sun protection. This has…