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Your Cell Phone Could Be Causing Skin Damage, Here's How To Protect Yourself

Quarantine may increase your screen time and exposure to harmful blue light, so we've rounded up the best weapons for skin protection.
Your Cell Phone Could Be Causing Skin Damage, Here’s How To Protect Yourself
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By Jennifer Ford · Updated December 6, 2020

While in quarantine, you may be taking a break from your vigorous beauty routine. However, there’s a step skin care experts are encouraging individuals not to skip, and it may surprise you.

Social distancing has led many of us to engage in more screen time. So in an effort to ward off the potentially harmful effects of blue light exposure which includes accelerated skin aging and skin damage, skin care experts are urging individuals to wear sunscreen indoors.

“It is a common misconception that if you are not outside then you do not need to wear sunscreen,” Amber Olson Rourke, Chief Sales & Marketing Officer, Co-founder for Neora told ESSENCE. “With more time being spent indoors and consumers spending 11+ hours per day watching, reading, listening, or interacting with everyday devices, many do not realize that the blue light emitted from these devices penetrates skin even deeper than UVA/UVB rays.”

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When selecting a sunscreen, “it is important to research which products protect you from blue light and UVA/UVB rays,” said Rourke.

Sunscreens are known for protecting the skin from ultra-violet light, but new formulas like the ones we’ve rounded up in the gallery below, are also aimed at providing blue light protection and now is the time to stock up.

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Neora Invisi-Bloc Sunscreen – SPF 40
Your Cell Phone Could Be Causing Skin Damage, Here’s How To Protect Yourself
Photo: Neora
available at Neora $59 Shop Now
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Supergoop! Glow Screen – SPF 40
Your Cell Phone Could Be Causing Skin Damage, Here’s How To Protect Yourself
Photo: Sephora
available at Sephora $30 Shop Now
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Farmacy Green Defense Daily Mineral Sunscreen – SPF 30
Your Cell Phone Could Be Causing Skin Damage, Here’s How To Protect Yourself
Photo: Sephora
available at Sephora $36 Shop Now
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Dermalogica Invisible Physical Defense Sunscreen – SPF 30
Your Cell Phone Could Be Causing Skin Damage, Here’s How To Protect Yourself
Photo: Sephora
available at Sephora $54 Shop Now
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REN Clean Screen Mineral SPF 30
Your Cell Phone Could Be Causing Skin Damage, Here’s How To Protect Yourself
Photo: Sephora
available at Sephora $38 Shop Now
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