Will you benefit from sun blocking clothing? Or will you trust that your regular clothing will protect your skin from sun damage? Where are you in protecting your skin from the sun question?
As you learn what clothing to use to protect your skin from too much sun, you can lower your risk of skin cancer.
Can you depend on regular clothing to block the sun from going through to your skin? Yes, if you learn about fabric and which ones are best for sun blocking, you can make better choices from your closet.
Not all summertime clothing keeps your skin safe from sunburn. As summertime is so hot, here in central Texas people want lightweight fabrics that aren’t really the best choice for sun blocking. However, you probably do have some good choices as well.
This is the reason that UPF clothing with its rated protection can sometimes be a good addition to your closet. Getting a bit familiar with the fabric that is best for sun protection can often give you good choices in even your regular clothing. Yes, most clothing does block some UV.
Remember, covering your skin is the best practice for protection from the sun. A shirt of some kind is better than no shirt. Even if it helps only a little, it is better than the sun on your bare skin.
Do Your Summer Shirts Block Enough Ultraviolet Rays To Prevent Sunburn?
Often the fabric is too thin, or too worn to offer much protection to your skin. Or maybe the shirt fits too tightly, stretching the fabric and allowing the sun to shine on your skin between the weaving holes.
As well, the style of clothing may not cover your skin. This is why the more expensive UPF clothing may be important for your skin’s safety. You could benefit from a protective garment added to your wardrobe.
The style and special knit or the finish on the fabric may be what you need to stay protected and comfortable in the sun. The sun blocking clothing manufacturing companies have developed many beautiful fabrics that work well for protecting your skin.
These fabrics can also be styled into very easy-to-wear attractive garments that make your skin safer when you are out in the sun. However, your lifestyle may have you out in the direct sun many hours at a time on many occasions.
If you are out a lot, clothing is the most reliable protection you can find.
Yes, sunscreen is helpful, but only when reapplied often. Adding a layer of sun blocking clothing to your sunscreen protection is amping up your protection. Using your sun hat, sunglasses, and UPF clothing will give you better skin protection.
You can not be out in the sun all day, every day, and not have some skin damage. If you work in the direct sun you must use as many ways as possible to protect your skin.
Covering your body with a loosely fitting long-sleeve shirt made from tightly woven fabric or UPF finished is a must. Finding shade, and drinking water are all important.
Awareness Of How You Can Protect Your Skin Is Important
Yes, be aware you can tan and even get a sunburn under clothing. Sun damage can be freckling or tanning. When your skin tans, this is considered UV damage.
This is why it is important to know how to use sun blocking clothing. If it is tightly woven and not too small, your skin will be safer, as long as you keep the garment on. Covering your skin will allow your skin to stay healthy, with a limited risk of skin cancer.
Tans are a point of question for most of us. We have lived our lives thinking we wanted to be tan. That it was important to have a tan to be more attractive. This is something that science is proving is dangerous. Skin that is tan has damage.
Protecting your skin to totally avoid all sun will have you living a life underground. However, who wants to live like that? Even when protecting my skin, and being careful, I do get some sun. A slight tan. I am trying to be careful. Yet, I am only human, and occasionally have my skin turn red.
So far, no new sunburns. I am hoping I won’t be having more skin cancer to be removed. There is just too much damage from years gone by. Any new damage could be one that causes skin cancer that will be harder to treat.
Skin cancer is usually treatable, however, it can leave you scarred. Even disfigured. I will be raising my awareness and protecting better.
What To Do If You Can’t Afford UPF Clothing
If you don’t have sun blocking clothing what are your options?
The first choice would be to purchase a properly fitting sun blocking shirt.
If you don’t have the money right now for a new wardrobe, there is a suggestion for you. It is called Rit Sun Guard. This laundry additive can make older worn garments do a better job of taking care of your skin.
Rit Sun Guard is also a good product to wash your kids’ shirts in to make their clothing do a better job of blocking the sun off their skin.
We use it in the spring to give our everyday stuff a boost in case we are out in the sun without realizing how long we have been there.
Sami’s Take On “Will You Benefit from sun Blocking Clothing?”
Being active in the protection of your skin will help lower your risk for skin cancer. Changing your habits and lifestyles can have a positive effect on your skin’s health. Using the tools you have to protect your skin is how you begin to improve your skin health.
Limiting time in the sun during direct sun time is a giant step in the right direction for helping your skin stay healthy. Thinking about how you spend your time when you are out in the sun can allow you to be proactive and protect your skin from the sun.
Don’t allow yourself to get careless in the cooler times of the year. Winter sun is dangerous when you get too much. This is often when you are caught off guard and get too much sun.
Use Rit Sun Guard to improve the protection your clothes in your closet can give you against the sun. There are many ways to help your skin stay healthy. Have you used Rit Sun Guard?
Thanks for reading,
Sami