Blue Light and Infrared skin damage objectivate by Helioscreen

8 September 2020

Beyond ultraviolet (UV) wavelength, considering the potentially harmful effects of Blue Light and Infrared (IR) radiations in skin damage, more and more sunscreen products are claiming these protections for consumers healthy.

As Blue Light and IR protection factors should be comparable between products and provide the balance of UV, Blue Light and IR protection within a single product, an in vitro test method was developed and published by HelioScreen allowing to express the protection by means of the transmittance percentage stopped by the sunscreen product and the Critical Wavelength extended to these wavelengths.

Read the complete article: ZOOM16-Skinobs-pigmentation

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