I must say, I winced just reading the words “skin cancer” and “home remedy” strung together in its title. Skin cancer, and Melanoma, are completely incomparable to a bout with, say, Poison Ivy; to which your great-grandmother may have once applied some melted tree bark/green tea leaf concoction that’d been passed down to her in … Read more
As a reminder to those of you whose Christmas lights are still up, summer is less than a month away. It’s hard to believe that another year is almost halfway through, when it seems like a few strains of Auld Lang Syne are still stuck in our heads. What that means, to point out the … Read more
May is Melanoma Awareness Month. And just as it’s kicked off every year with Melanoma Monday, it begins its wind down with Don’t Fry Day. Don’t Fry Day is celebrated annually on the fourth Friday of May, and in 2016 it falls on May 27th. As you know, that’s today; so of course it’s no … Read more
May is Melanoma Awareness Month, and all throughout May we’ll be bringing you blog posts that focus on a specific result from, or contributor to, sun skin damage. Today we’ll be focusing on the very real potential for wrinkle relief. The wheels of science never stop turning, and it’s a great thing for mankind that … Read more
We’d like to first clarify that by “athletes”, we’re not just talking about professionals or hard-core amateurs, but everyone. If you’re someone who plays a few sets of tennis on the weekends, a round of Frisbee golf at the local park, or anything in between, this post is for you, too. Although there are certainly … Read more
As the title of this blog post so blatantly suggests, within this entry we’re going to discuss why it’s so important to protect your skin from the sun. As you read these very words, skin cancer is the most common form of that disease across the entire globe. Still though, it doesn’t get the ink … Read more
May is Melanoma Awareness Month, and throughout it we’ll intermittently bring you blog posts focused on a specific result from, or contributor to, irreversible sun damage to the skin. Today’s focus is on risks associated with Athletes, Extreme Sports and Sun Exposure In a previous post we went over the importance of wearing sunscreen while participating … Read more