If you’re the outdoor type, you need to make sure you’re taking care to protect your skin from the sun, while enjoying the warm weather and your favourite pastime.
According to the UK Skin Cancer Working Party, if you have an outdoor occupation or pastime, whether that’s gardening, fishing, golfing and skiing, you are particularly at risk. If it’s a beautiful sunny day, it’s all too easy to rush out of the house and get started on the weeding, or zip out onto the golf course without a thought for your skin.
But, it’s time to start thinking about the damage those harmful rays could be doing if you aren’t using sun protection!
With rates of skin cancer increasing faster than any other cancer in the UK, being aware of the facts has never been so important. According to the Skin Cancer Working Party, individuals who develop skin cancer do not always have a history of deliberate sunbathing. Those who have an outdoor occupation and or recreation such as fishing, sailing or golfing are also at risk and must learn to protect their skin.
You do not need to be sat in the sun to get burnt. Water can reflect a fair amount of sunlight and even on cloudy days or bright cool days the skin can become damaged by the UV rays.
Top tip: Keep your sun protection ‘kit’ (sun cream, hat, water) near your back door or somewhere that will catch your eye next time you head out for some outdoor fun. Apply the enthusiasm you have for the great outdoors to your skin too!
Uvistat is set to be a major sponsor at BBC Gardeners World this year. As well as sponsoring Picnic Hill at the show running from the 11 – 15 June, Uvistat is also taking space within BBC Country File show at the festival to showcase new product range designed for sports and leisure - "Uvisport", and hold an aptly named Mole Check Clinic!
The clinic will not, as recent news stories have highlighted, help protect the endangered garden mole, but will check any potentially dangerous moles on the body. It will be staffed by dermatologists from leading Midlands’ hospitals in association with dedicated
skin cancer charity Skcin.
At both Picnic Hill and within the hall, free samples will be given out for show visitors to try.
