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Highlighting Beauty: Product Claim and Efficacy Tests for Skin Protection in the Digital Era by Mérieux NutriSciences via TKS

1 septembre 2021

INTRODUCTION

For many years, the photobiology research and photo-protective strategies have been focused on the UV portion of the solar spectrum. This is for a good reason since the high energy of UV radiation induces acute and chronic skin damage already after a short time of exposure. Besides UVA, UVB, and InfraRed rays, it has been discovered that Visible Light (400-700 nm) is a one more potential inflammation factor from the damaging effects of which the skin needs to be protected.

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