It’s summer, and before you head to the beach or pool, you might slather on sunscreen. But is it doing anything beyond preventing a sunburn? Can it really prevent wrinkles and skin cancer?
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Ingredients: The strange chemistry of what we put in us and on us
Shedding More Light on Sunscreen Absorption
FDA advances new proposed regulation to make sure that sunscreens are safe and effective
New sunscreens and the precautionary principle
Protein oxidation, UVA and human DNA repair
Use of sunscreen and risk of melanoma and non-melanoma skin cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis
How do the chemicals in sunscreen protect our skin from damage
Sunscreen and Prevention of Skin Aging
UV rays
Mechanisms of DNA damage by UV rays
Sunscreen history
Sunlight damage to cellular DNA: Focus on oxidatively generated lesions
UVA-induced cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers in DNA: a direct photochemical mechanism?
How does sunscreen protect you?
Tanning and your skin
Risks of tanning
Sunscreen and skin cancer
The sunscreen gap
Skin cancer foundation
Generation of 8-oxo-7,8-dihydroguanine
Wait, What’s the Deal With Sunscreen? Does It Work or Not?