You don't need to use sunscreen above SPF 30 — but there's another rating you should be looking at
- Sunscreen with a high SPF rating is the best protection for your skin from harmful UV rays.
- But there's another rating you should be looking at too.
- It's called the star rating, and you should buy a suncream with a rating of at least 4.
Jonathan Hume@IamMrJ
Anyway apparently there has been Weather so its time to talk about how sun-cream works again.
SPF is the most commonly known metric, and is a measure of how much UVB is blocked.
However, the scale isn't linear. SPF50 doesn't block twice as much as SPF25.
Published May 8, 2018
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