you put on sunscreen.
You must protect yourself! This bandanna will protect my neck from sunburn.
To protect your skin from harmful effects of the sun, avoid sunblock ingredients like oxybenzone, octinoxate, and retinyl palmitate. These ingredients can potentially cause skin irritation and harm marine life. Look for sunscreens with zinc oxide or titanium dioxide for safer protection.
It can cause skin melanoma (cancer) and sun spots.
Melanin is a pigment that gives color to the skin, hair, and eyes. Its main function is to protect the skin from the harmful effects of UV radiation from the sun.
Ozone layer protects us. It protects us from the harmful UV rays of the sun.
absorbing ultraviolet radiation
Sun burns are short-term effects. Cancer of the skin could be long-term effects.
Melanin is a pigment that gives color to the hair, skin, and eyes. Its main function is to protect the skin from the harmful effects of ultraviolet (UV) radiation from the sun by absorbing and scattering the UV radiation.
Ozone in the Earth's atmosphere absorbs and blocks harmful ultraviolet radiation from the Sun, preventing it from reaching the Earth's surface. This helps protect living organisms from the harmful effects of UV radiation, such as skin cancer and cataracts.
Skin has Melanin which is brown-colored pigment, which protects the skin from the harmful UV rays that come from the sun. When the UV rays hit the skin the skin turns darker in order to protect or shield it. Tanning or darkening of the skin is in reaction to the harmful UV given off by the sun. Consider how in warm or tropical locations such Africa, Asia, and South America people have darker pigmented skin. It is in order to protect and shield it from damage. In other words, the sun is harmful to the skin---dark or fair. When your skin tans it is in order to protect it from even more damage.
The ozone layer in the atmosphere blocks most of the ultraviolet light from the sun. This helps protect living organisms on Earth from the harmful effects of excessive UV radiation, such as skin damage and increased risk of skin cancer.
Aging of skin due to the harmful effects of the sun is called photo aging or photoaging.