Halloween: Trick or Treatment?

Retinyl Palmitate and your sunscreen

Skin Protection Maintaining proper skin care is, of course, essential throughout all seasons. However, a change in routines and treatments when the leaves turn orange and the corn mazes whither will help keep your skin looking and feeling great once Old Man Autumn comes a-knockin’. Recently, Elle Magazine published a half-dozen tips to help get … Read more

Autumn Sports Sun Protection

Autumn Sports Sunscreen

As October rolls around in the east and north, the weather gets both colder and bolder. And the athletes among us Yankees start to shift some of our athletic activities indoors. However that doesn’t mean every outdoor sport gets mothballed for the season up here. We hearty folk will frolic outside till long after the … Read more

Breast Health & Skin Cancer: What You Need To Know

Breast Health

Protect Your Private Parts While Exposed To The Sun We are committed to bringing you a continual stream of anecdotes and information that in some way helps protect you and yours from skin cancer and Melanoma. However, every once in a while we have a cross-referential opportunity that we’re happy to bring you. In other … Read more

Social Media Danger: Sunburn Selfies

Social media can be a health danger

I am not at all a fan of Social Media but I am a big fan of Sunscreen. I’m learning to be open about Social Media but honestly, these posts happen because I am reminded by my team that social media is a constant. I’m used to the old fashioned way of doing things like talking face-to-face, … Read more

Peer Pressures with Tanning

Peer Pressures to tan

Teens and Prom Season are the Biggest Pressures to Tan Peer pressures are something that every one of us has probably faced at one point, or multiple points, in our lives. In our younger years most of the time peer pressure is associated with the forbidden; things such as smoking or drinking.  Later on, perhaps it’s something … Read more

Autumn and Sunscreen: A Perfect Match

Autumn

Sun protection is a year round subject It’s that time of year again; Autumn has returned! For many in the southern and western United States, aside from the imported or store-bought visual icons of the season, it’s pretty much business as usual weather-wise. But here in N.E. and other parts of the north, northeast and … Read more

Fall Fashion Week 2015: Best and Worst

fall fashion week best and worst

NYFW Best and Worst It’s fall fashion week again – our favorite time of the year. The air is crisper, the pumpkin flavor has emerged in just about everything you can find on the shelves. I wish I saw the color “pumpkin” more on the runways as well but, you have to realize Fashion Week … Read more