Introduction
Without knowing that blue light emitted from electronic devices harming your skin health!!
64% of people unaware of blue light impact on skin. According to the dermatologists – “spending for eight-hour workdays in front of a computer exposes you to the same amount of energy as 20 minutes in the mid-day sun”.
Research shows blue light from electronic devices can lead to shrinkage and death of skin cells. These speeds up the ageing process resulting premature aging, wrinkles and loss of skin integrity. Even exposures as short as 60 minutes can trigger these changes. Too much blue light could also lead to pigmentation.
What is blue light?
Blue light is part of the natural electromagnetic energy spectrum. It is a colour in the visible light spectrum that can be seen by human eyes. Blue light also known as high energy visible light, a type of light with short wavelengths emitting a higher energy.
The sun emits blue light. So do fluorescent and incandescent light bulbs. Human beings are exposed to more blue light than ever because of the widespread use of devices that rely on light-emitting diode (LED) technology.
Digital screens like Computer and laptop screens, flat-screen televisions, cell phones, and tablets all use LED technologies and therefore they are the source of high amounts of blue light.
What does blue light do to your eyes?
Blue light exposure may lead to damage to the retina exposing the eye to hidden spikes in intensity, long term vision problems like age related molecular degeneration and cataracts, suppressing the natural release of melatonin and disrupting sleep. Blue light can often give you headache, dry eyes.
The vision council recommends everyone including their child (or children) to visit a local eyecare expert to discuss their digital habits and what eyecare solutions are available to relieve the symptoms of digital eye strain and reduce exposure to blue light.
What does blue light do to your skin?
Blue light is known to penetrate the skin deeper than UV rays, damaging essential proteins and resulting in wrinkles and loss of firmness. Blue light contributes to premature aging, pigmentation, cataracts, cell shrinkage, wrinkles and photo damage. Melasma is worsen when exposed to high energy visible blue light.
A study published in Oxidative Medicine and Cellular Longevity in 2015, suggested that exposure to blue light might stimulate the production of free radicals in skin, which can accelerate the appearance of aging.
Dermatologists have good evidence to show that visible light triggers certain skin conditions, like melasma, where the skin is stimulated to produce more pigment. There’s also evidence that as blue light penetrates the skin, reactive oxygen species are generated, which leads to DNA damage, thereby causing inflammation and the breakdown of healthy collagen and elastin, as well as hyperpigmentation.
How does blue light cause hyperpigmentation to your skin?
It’s not super well-researched but it looks like it’s mostly to do with a protein in your skin that senses light, a photoreceptor called opsin-3. Once opsin-3 is triggered by enough blue light. It sends a signal to the pigment producing cells called melanocytes and it produces more pigments. It might also have to do with free radicals that causes hyperpigmentation.
How to protect your skin from harmful effects of blue light?
Now we know that blue light is emitted from sun as well as digital devices. There are some protocols to follow to protect your skin from blue light.
1.Keep the phone at arm’s length.
2. Use a blue light screen protector.
3.Switch to dark mode.
4. Use Vitamin C serum at night.
5.Include plenty of antioxidants in your diet.
6.Last and most importantly, the best way to protect your skin from blue light is to wear a blue light Protection with Zinc oxide, Titanium dioxide and with good SPF content. You need to wear it when you are indoors, in front of any electronic devices and reapply if exposed for long.
Which products protect?
Which product will actually protect your skin against the blue light? Earlier research found that regular sunscreens actually aren’t that good at protecting against visible light, even if you have a thick white layer of mineral or physical sunscreen it still doesn’t work very well. But some of the earlier studies found that tinted physical sunscreens gave pretty good protection. Physical or mineral sunscreens that contain Zinc oxide and Titanium dioxide, are doing double the work by blocking UV rays and blue light to an extent. Products containing microfine titanium dioxide showed significantly higher protection against both UVA and blue light. Along with this, your skin needs complete nourishment and damage repair. Some essential oils like lavender, ylang ylang can be a very good option for that.
Wrapping up
Today, we can’t imagine ourselves without digital devices. So all we can do is keeping ourselves protected from the harmful effects of blue light. Protection for eyes as well as skin. As a skincare brand, MGmeowgirl is concerned about your skin health and that is why we have come up with MGmeowgirl blue light protection lotion which is specially designed to protect your skin from digital damage as well as oxidative damage.
MGmeowgirl blue light protection matte finish lotion is a preservative-free, non-oily, non-comedogenic, matte finish, water-resistant formula that provides ultra-protection from visible blue light.
MGmeowgirl blue light protection matte finish lotion is free from any harmful chemicals like silicone and paraben and it is suitable for all skin types.
It effectively helps in preventing premature ageing on the skin & helps reduce dark patches, uneven skin tone & depigmentation leaving skin looking even, radiant & moisturized.
You need to wear it when you are indoors, in front of any electronic devices and reapply if exposed for long.
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