Question: Do you spend the majority of your working week tapping away in front of a computer screen?
Thought so.RELATED: 5 best facial soaps for washing your faceRELATED: This viral hack tells you exactly how long your beauty products have been sitting on the shelfUnfortunately, there’s a myriad of health complications that result from working a desk job—hello, bad posture!—including skin damage.
According to a recent study by Unilever Skincare Research, four days in front of a computer is just as damaging to your skin as 20 minutes in the mid-afternoon sun. Meaning that even if you’re sitting out of the harsh afternoon sun, your computer screen is giving off some harmful rays of its own.
While 20 minutes in the afternoon sun may not seem too catastrophic, over time, it adds up. This kind of prolonged exposure to harmful rays can eventually lead to wrinkles, dark spots or even melanoma.
Our advice? Lather on sunscreen—always. The most important and effective anti-ageing treatment is sun protection. Using a quality, high SPF sunscreen that protects from UVA and UVBs is vital for keeping your skin sun-spot free and even-toned.
Or, if you prefer to keep your sunscreen and foundation separate, Dermalogica Dynamic Skin Recovery SPF50, $99, is a lightweight anti-ageing formula that doesn’t have any kind of fragrance.Words by Erin CookMain image credit: Getty
Not factual. Only one study? By Unilever? Control study, clinical, repeated several times with same results by different independent research clinics without conflict of interest? Which does not sell cosmetic products? If this was the case (Unilever “study” claims), my melasma would be out of control! Will never use sunscreens indoors and when/where unnecessary.
Who’d have thought you’d need sunscreen in the office!
This was one of my fears I thought at random the other day. I can’t believe it’s true.
This does’nt sound good, I think I might use my tablet more than my desktop now.