WHY YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT BLUE LIGHT AND HOW TO PROTECT YOUR SKIN AGAINST IT.
IF YOU’RE SERIOUS ABOUT PREVENTING PREMATURE AGEING – AND WE’LL ASSUME YOU ARE – THEN THERE’S A CULPRIT BESIDES UVA AND UVB RAYS THAT YOU NEED TO BE AWARD OF: BLUE LIGHT. ALSO KNOWN AS HIGH-ENERGY VISIBLE LIGHT, BLUE LIGHT IS EMITTED MOSTLY FROM DIGITAL DEVICES AND PENETRATES DEEP DOWN INTO YOUR SKIN, INDUCING OXIDATIVE STRESS THAT CAUSES SKIN AGEING.
THE EXTENT OF THE DAMAGE DEPENDS ON THE AMOUNT OF TIME YOU SPEND USING YOUR DIGITAL DEVICES, WHICH ADMITTEDLY IS AROUND THE CLOCK NOWADAYS, SO CLEARLY A LITTLE HELP IS IN ORDER. BUT BEFORE YOU GO DRASTICALLY ALTERING YOUR SKINCARE ROUTINE, START BY COVERING YOUR LAPTOP AND MOBILE PHONE WITH A BLUE-LIGHT SCREEN SHIELD. SOME DEVICES ALSO HAVE A SETTING THAT DISABLES BLUE LIGHT – TURN IT ON STAT. FOR PROTECTION THROUGH SKINCARE PRODUCTS, GET YOURSELF POWERFUL TOPICAL ANTIOXIDANTS. THEY HELP TO DEFEND THE OXIDATIVE STRESS CAUSED BY THE BLUE LIGHT, AND SHOULD THEREFORE BE IN ALL YOUR SKINCARE PRODUCTS, WHETHER SERUM OR SPF. TAKE A LOOK AT OHLALA’S PICKS OF THE BEST PRODUCTS THAT TAKE ON THE FIGHT AGAINST BLUE LIGHT:
