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By now you know how important wearing sunscreen is to reduce your risk of skin cancer, prevent premature aging, and keep your skin at its healthiest, but how often should you reapply your sunscreen throughout the day? In this video, dermatologist Margareth Pierre-Louis breaks down the best way to time your sunscreen applications to make sure you're getting consistent protection from the sun.
Key Takeaways
- The FDA recommends reapplying sunscreen every 2 hours.
- Chemical sunscreens typically last longer than mineral sunscreens.
Video Transcript
The recommendations are, by the FDA, that you reapply most, if not all sunscreens every two hours. Now if it is a mineral sunscreen, you should definitely do that because you could sweat off the sunscreen and then it becomes ineffective. If you're in a chemical sunscreen, you could typically go a little longer between having to reapply, but on average, try to reapply sunscreen every two hours so you minimize the burning effect that can happen without sunscreen.
