A different take…
Okay I am a little passionate about this topic. I feel the sun has got such a bad rap over the past 2 decades concerning skin care and aging. First let’s give credit that it is the life force and if we did not have it we would not even exist! Plus it grows those very foods we eat that nourish our skin.
It is our diet lacking in fats, proteins and omega-3 fatty acids that leads our bodies to not being able to repair tissue at the rate it could if we ate a healthier diet or raw food diet. The sun gives us our vitamin D as well as aids in mood levels. I strongly believe it is not the sun causing cancers people! Cancer can’t exist in healthy tissue! Now I went to a skin care seminar and would like to share with you this view.
If you have read my article on Understanding Our Skin, you know our skin has an absorption rate. So imagine a product powerful enough to block out the sun’s rays. This is what you are smearing into your skin. Plus a 45 block does not work any better than a 15 block. Why? Your skin can only absorb so much before it is full. So all you are doing is adding more crazy harsh chemicals into your skin. Then you go outside to ‘bake’. Well you are literally baking these chemicals into your skin. Funny thing is this is where they find cancer. Hummmm… makes you think. And we have defiantly seen the rise in skin cancers and it coincides with our planets bad diets and sunblock craze. No medical proof, I am not claiming that at all. But just look at the common sense of it all.
So since our cells have a memory, we can teach them how to tan. How? Well by small exposure to the sun over and over without ever getting burned in-between. Notice you always burn in areas you have had a bad burn before? Well I had to be ultra pale when working in Japan. My skin tone in high school during the winter would get so pale people often said i looked a bit sick or grey. Yet now after years of staying away from the sun, so I could work well in the Japanese Modeling world, I hold a deep tan throughout the year and rarely burn. I use no sunscreen and feel better than ever.
Heres a crazy thought…
If you are starting to burn, maybe it’s natures way of saying to put a t-shirt on. Or use the shade of a tree and get reconnected with the earth. It costs less than sun block yet your still enjoying our life-giving Sun.
This Spring I will be launching my secret recipe tanning lotion. All natural, you can buy the ingredients at your local health food store and you will tan a deep rich brown you would never believe! oh, this ones great folks. Plus it nourishes your skin!
robinsbeautytips said,
December 13, 2009 at 4:42 pm
Yes! For really pale skin I would go no more than 7 minutes at a time. No more than 3-4 times per week. Eat a diet high in protiens and Omega Fatty Acids. Moisturize a lot before and after. Do not buy all those fancy lotions, they have so much un needed chemicals in them and cost a fortune. I like pure coco butter or jojaba oil. Do not stop this routine for long enough where you are ‘starting from scratch’. It will take years for a decent base for extremely pale skin, as I happen to know you have, to develop. Western civilization always wants instant. It will not happen like that. If you want instant that is why they also have the self tanning develpoers out there. Good luck!