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Wales Online
Wales Online
Health
Will Hayward

The important thing your sun cream needs to have to protect you from getting skin cancer

The damage the sun can do to our health - including skin cancer - is well-known. And while there's a lot more awareness of the damage the sun can do and the ways to prevent it, people still get sunburnt. This is especially important after the hot weather we have had in recent weeks.

The most obvious way to avoid it is cover up with clothing and hats and to apply sun cream to exposed skin. And when choosing suncream, many people will look simply for the SPF factor. The higher the SPF factor the greater the protection.

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