Beauty-damaging blue light
If you’re serious about taking care of your complexion, it’s important to understand the impact blue light has on the cellular ageing of your skin and your general wellbeing, plus what you can do about it.
When it comes to minimising premature ageing, photosensitivity and pigmentation, there is growing evidence confirming that protecting your skin from UVA and UVB rays alone simply isn’t enough. According to experts, blue light is a big culprit contributing to oxidative stress, which has an overall beauty-damaging domino effect.
Are you glued to your phone, laptop or tablet for multiple hours a day? If you answered “Yes”, take a deep breath! The good news is that you don’t have to let your skin pay the price of overexposure to technological blue light emissions; you simply need to understand what is really going on and what you can do about it.
What is blue light?
Although today blue light is often associated with technology, it naturally comes from the sun. When the light from the sun travels towards Earth, it contains all colours of visible light. As the sunlight reaches Earth’s atmosphere, it collides with gases and other particles, which cause it to scatter. Since blue light travels in shorter, smaller waves, it is scattered more than other colours and therefore makes the sky appear blue most of
