536: Summer Secrets: Your Guide To All Things Sunscreen
Beauty Bytes with Dr. Kay: Secrets of a Plastic Surgeon™
Kay Durairaj, MD, FACS @beautybydrkay
4.9 • 608 Ratings
🗓️ 6 July 2023
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
As you prepare for your summer vacation, or stay-cation, it is important to learn the benefits of wearing sunscreen. UV rays can damage your skin cells DNA. With improper care, over time your skin may be susceptible to wrinkles, discoloration, and skin cancer. In this podcast I talk to you all about the importance of sunscreen, the difference between chemical and physical sunscreens, and the best ways to protect yourself from harmful UVA and UVB rays. I explain the science behind mineral based sunscreens and pros and cons of it. If you’re traveling abroad or plan on spending time in the sun this summer, you must listen to this episode! Remember, the skin is one of the largest organs on your body and I can’t stress enough how important it is to protect it.
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| 0:00.0 | Well, hello, hello, guys. |
| 0:15.8 | You're listening to Beauty Bites with Dr. Kay's secrets of a plastic surgeon. |
| 0:19.5 | And today on the podcast, I want to teach you all |
| 0:22.2 | about the difference between chemical and physical sunscreens. So this is a topic that's really |
| 0:29.8 | important to me. I definitely feel that patients have the ability to choose the best possible |
| 0:35.8 | sunscreen that's out there for themselves. |
| 0:37.8 | There's so many sunscreens on the market. |
| 0:40.6 | I make an amazing one, and I want you guys to do your homework, read about, learn about |
| 0:45.7 | sunscreens, and choose one for yourselves. |
| 0:48.2 | There are physical sunscreens and there are chemical sunscreen. |
| 0:52.6 | So looking at chemical sunscreens, these are the sunscreens that are out there in the drugstores, |
| 0:57.9 | on the shelves available over the counter. |
| 1:00.2 | And the most common ingredients found in these sunscreens are chemicals. |
| 1:04.7 | They are absorbed on the surface of your skin, and the reaction occurs after the sunscreens |
| 1:10.7 | absorbed and works for about 20 minutes |
| 1:12.9 | that when ultraviolet light then hits your skin UVA and UVB are then combated so free radicals |
| 1:21.7 | created by these ultraviolet lights are then fought and sun damage and DNA damage is then prevented. |
| 1:29.0 | So the typical sunscreen ingredients for chemical sunscreens would be things like oxybenzone, |
| 1:35.1 | avobenzene, homosalate, octochrylene, octinocytocytes, octanocyanocytinusate, octasalate. |
| 1:41.8 | I can barely pronounce these. |
| 1:43.5 | But these things that you can't hardly read are the |
| 1:46.7 | ingredients that are going to protect you from free radical damage. When the sun hits, molecules |
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