Daily sunscreen
High-SPF sunscreen on exposed skin every day, not only at the beach
Applying a broad-spectrum, high-SPF sunscreen to exposed skin every day, whatever the weather, rather than only on beach days. Dermatology bodies frame it as the habit with the best evidence for lowering skin cancer risk and slowing visible aging. Cumulative exposure decades earlier is what shows up later, which is why people who grew up outdoors without it now talk about it so insistently. A tube costs a few dollars and lasts weeks.
People on record
Sorted by strength of stance
Does it: documented as part of their own routine. Recommends: explicitly advises other people to do it. Discusses: covered it substantively without clear personal adoption; this can include criticism or disagreement.
- Hugh JackmanRecommends
Actor · Wolverine and The Greatest Showman
After repeated basal cell carcinoma biopsies on his nose, he has used each one to ask people to wear high-SPF sunscreen, saying the damage from 25 years earlier is only coming out now. If it reminds even one person, he says, he is happy.
Source: NBC News: Hugh Jackman posts video on new skin cancer scare and urges fans to 'please wear sunscreen'
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