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Item: Preventive medicine -> Category: Health -> Author: PF -> Revision: 14/10/2008
Protection from the Sun

 

Types of skin

 

The FPS or SPF needed for each person depends on your photo, which is the ability of the skin to receive solar radiation. The phototypes of classified into:

 

·  Phototype 1: people very white skin and clear eyes. It burned at very short exposure to the sun and barely broncean. They require very high protection.

 

·  Phototype 2: fair-skinned people and clear eyes. It burned easily and broncean slightly. They need protection high.

 

·  Phototype 3: skinned people and chestnut brown eyes. It was burning less readily and broncean. They need protection media.

 

·  Phototype 4: people with white skin and dark hair and eyes. They do not usually burn and broncean. They need protection media.

 

·  Phototype 5: people with very dark skin and eyes and dark hair. They do not usually burn and broncean very easily. They need a low protection.

 

·  Phototype 6: people with black skin. There are burned. They require protection very low.

 

Phototype

Protection Factor

Phototype 1

50

Phototype 2

30

Phototype 3

15-20

Phototype 4

10

Phototype 5

6


Contents of the document

1.-Introduction
2.- Solar radiation
3.- Types of UV
4.- Positive effects of the Sun
5.- Negative effects of the Sun
6.- Adequate sunlight
7.- Sunscreens
8.- Sun protection factor
-> Types of skin
10.- Waterproofness of sunscreens



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