Hello, you're listening to me, Liz Earl with Wellness with Liz Earl.

The sixth episode of my audio Wellbeing magazine and a few juicy insights into all things

well-being and we're very much hoping that the sun will be shining on us very soon

and you may be thinking about heading off on summer holidays.

So we're going to be looking at the very best ways to stay safe in the sun.

Should we now be getting a tan in order to top up our Vitamin D levels.

Government guidelines state we should all be getting more Vitamin D in our lives.

So, what's the truth?

What are the alternatives?

What summer suncare products are the best to protect us and what about all these

UVA and UVM filters in our Suncare what are they all about?

So firstly, yes I know we all feel so much healthier and probably a tad more attractive too if we're

honest with a gorgeously glowing tan.

And we've the legendary fashion designer, the French designer Coco Chanel, to thank for making

sun-kist skin so very stylish, as up until the 1920s or so having a tan was actually a sign of being rather uncouth an outdoor laborer or

perhaps someone who had to do farm work and it was definitely not thought of as being

fashionable and that's why we see all the pictures of the Victorian

Edwardian ladies before this going around in their sun hats with their parasols.

So Coco Chanel actually cast all that aside on the shores of the French Riviera and along with putting

women into trousers and bathing suits, shock horror, she's also credited with setting the style

among the Swanee for having a sontan.

And so it was until up until the 1980s or so that women and men of all ages would consider

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