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Watch VideoGood Housekeeping has some suggestions for the right amount of sunscreen for your skin
Story By: Kristin Hawley
Source: KOAA
With summer just around the corner, no doubt you'll putting on the sunscreen. But will you be applying enough? The good housekeeping research institute says, probably not.
How much sunscreen should you put on to protect yourself from the sun's harmful rays? "I'd say about a teaspoon." "Yeah. Maybe a little bit more." "Maybe that much. It seems like enough."
Beauty Editor Alyssa Hertzig says, "the skin cancer foundation recommends applying a full ounce of sunscreen every time you put it on. Now that's a lot of product, and from what we've seen at the pool, at the beach, a lot of people probably aren't applying that much. So we had the good housekeeping research institute test to see how much people are really using."
Health and Beauty director Birnur Aral says, "we asked 15 volunteers to test a product. We told them to apply it on their body and on their face as if they were going to spend a day at the beach. We measured the products before and after they were used, so we could determine the amounts that was used."
The testers' average application was only .3 ounces--less than a third of the recommended one ounce.
If you're not sure what an ounce of sunscreen loo" ks like? Good Housekeeping has a couple of simple guidelines, hertzig says, "a four-ounce tube is going to be about four applications; a three-ounce tube, about three applications and so on. So basically, if you have the same tube for the entire summer, or worse- from last summer, you're pretty much not using enough."
And Good Housekeeping says, apply sunscreen at least every two hours and make sure to use a broad spectrum product that blocks both those aging u-v-a rays and cancer-causing u-v-b rays.
