Let HealthAnswers tell you how to save some face. Exposure to the sun's rays is the number one cause of ageing and damaged skin.
Sunlight is a type of radiation that is nearly impossible to block.
When this radiation finds its way to penetrate into your body's inner tissues, it breaks down the integrity of cells. In the long-term, this underlying cell breakdown surfaces to the skin as wrinkling, brown spots or more serious form of damage. The best thing you can do for your skin is to avoid the sun altogether. Healthy skin relies on a sufficient amount of oxygen, vitamins, minerals and nutrients, but these are often depleted by the sun, rain, wind and pollution. In fact, a new University of California-Berkeley study says ozone rapidly strips vitamin E from your face, an important component of healthy skin, from the uppermost skin layer.