Why MelanSol® 100% Natural Sunscreen is a 21st Century Innovation
If you currently use traditional sunscreen to protect your skin during sun exposure, you’ll be changing your ideas about how to best protect your skin once you understand MelanSol®, a 21st Century innovation in sunscreen protection that is rocking the industry.
For over five decades, manufacturers of traditional sunscreen have promoted chemical active ingredients alone as the best solution for preventing sunburn and long-term skin damage. These ingredients are used because their molecular structure allows them to absorb a high percentage of UV radiation on your skin. Their premise is simple; if you apply traditional sunscreen prior to sun exposure, you can safely avoid sun damaged skin when you remain outside for an extended period. In order to foster the misguided belief that a higher sunscreen SPF is more protective, a confusing selection of traditional sunscreens have been created.
When it comes to using traditional sunscreen for sunburn protection, there are five reasons why it falls short of the protection you think you are getting.
- Free radicals are the underlying causes of sunburn, prematurely aged skin and basal and squamous cell carcinoma skin cancer. Free radicals, also referred to as oxidants, are rogue molecules that form on skin when it’s exposed to UV rays.
- Chemical active ingredients in traditional sunscreen DO NOT protect your skin from free radical damage.
- Chemical Active Ingredients in traditional sunscreen are also powerful free radical generators that contribute to sunburn and long-term skin damage.
- The SPF number you’ve been using to choose the right sun protection only gauges of a sunscreens ability to filter UVB rays. Since sunscreen manufacturers are not yet required to test for their effectiveness against UVA radiation, they remain focused on convincing the public that the SPF number is the best way to illustrate sunscreens effectiveness.
- Only 100% natural antioxidants are capable of helping your skin control the accumulation free radicals that cause sunburn, aged skin, and long-term skin damage. Synthetic and acetate forms of antioxidants are ineffective against free radicals.
Based upon the science of how sunburn and long-term skin damage occur, wouldn’t it be more logical and effective to protect your skin with a sunscreen that directly addresses the underlying cause? Yes! This is the founding premise behind MelanSol® 100% Natural Sunscreen.
MelanSol® is a 21st Century innovation in sunscreen protection because it combines safe natural UV reflection, in the form of titanium dioxide or zinc oxide, with an active combination of three 100% natural antioxidants: Bio-Melanin (date fruit extract), Green Tea Extract, and Natural Vitamin E (mixed d-tocopherol).
MelanSol® is a highly efficient sunscreen because the three natural antioxidants work together as one “active system” to help control the development of free radicals on your skin, before they can do any harm. Tests have revealed that the system of natural antioxidants in MelanSol® is five times more powerful than the individual antioxidants alone.
The groundbreaking use of antioxidants in MelanSol® was confirmed by a 2003 continuing education study, conducted at Duke University and published in The Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology. The study revealed that traditional sunscreens were “inadequate” at preventing free radical (photoaging) skin damage, while fully documenting how using natural antioxidants, such as green tea, in sunscreen were effective at helping prevent such damage.
MelanSol® is held to a higher standard than the majority of sunscreens you will find in that it is tested for its effectiveness against both UVA and UVB radiation. Each sunscreen label reflects the UVB rating with the SPF number and the UVA rating with the internationally recognized PA (Protection Factor A) rating system of PA+ (Low), PA++ (medium) and PA+++ (high).
Selecting the highest SPF is not always the right choice. MelanSol® sunscreen is specifically designed for different skin tones, so each may have the ability to synthesize the proper amount of vitamin D. The darker the skin tone, the lower the SPF and UVA rating that should be used.
The additional 100% natural ingredients in MelanSol® sunscreen are not random. A sunscreen should also perform additional functions that promote healthy skin. Each MelanSol® ingredient has been specifically chosen because of its ability to supply skin with hydration, nourishment, conditioning, and the ability to rejuvenate and repair.
A complete internationally recognized INCI list of ingredients (International Nomenclature of Cosmetic Ingredients) for each MelanSol® sunscreen can be found here.
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