6 ways to protect your skin from sun damage in addition to sunscreen

We’ve been slathering sunscreen on ourselves since we were kids, trying to stay healthy and avoid getting cancer. Turns out many of the ingredients in sunscreen can actually encourage cancer growth, and all that blocking out the sun isn’t completely healthy either. The sun is still the best source of vitamin D we have. It creates this entire vital vitamin we need with just about twenty minutes of exposure a day. So a little dose of sun is a good thing, especially if you’re also getting the healthy fats the body needs to create that vitamin D. Good things there are other ways to protect our skin from the sun aside from sunscreens that we’ve become too accustomed to.

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