Expert opinion - Sensitive? Intolerant? Understand how your skin reacts to the sun

Sensitive skin reacts immediately to various environmental factors such as wind, cold, sun, but also stress and diet.

Symptoms can include redness, tightness, and heating sensations in the areas exposed to the sun.

Intolerant skin is hyper-reactive to UV radiation and often suffers from what dermatologists call benign summer light eruption.

Symptoms can include intense itching and tingling as well as small pimples on the décolleté, arms, legs and sometimes the back of the feet, sparing the face.

It lasts for about a week, and then gradually disappears – as long as there is no further exposure – without leaving any scars. Benign summer light eruptions tend to recur in the following years, becoming more severe.

Absolutely. Sun-intolerant skin can be exposed to the sun, as long as you scrupulously adapt your protection routine.

The Sun Intolerance Protective Body Spray is used before and during exposure:

2 weeks before the 1^st exposure: apply the Sun Intolerance Protective Body Spray once a day on key areas (décolleté, arms and legs).

Apply the Sun Intolerance Protective Body Spray 20 minutes before every exposure to the sun, and then renew every hour. This helps increase the skin’s tolerance threshold, reduce its reactivity to the sun, stimulate its natural photoprotection, and prevent photo-aging.

The skin – even sensitive skin – naturally protects itself from UV radiation by producing melanin, the pigment responsible for tanning. Melanin is a solar filter naturally produced by the skin because it has anti-free radical properties, absorbs UV radiation and protects the DNA. So in fact, tanning is the most natural form of protection there is!

To prepare your skin, spray Bronz Impulse 2 weeks prior to sun exposure, both in the morning and evening, in order to:
- Prepare the skin for tanning by activating the pigmentation process
- Stimulate the natural production of melanin
- Prolong natural tanning
- Protect the skin against UVA-induced photo-aging

Then, before and every hour during exposure, apply the Adaptasun Sensitive Body Lotion***.

It provides excellent protection against UV radiation and stimulates the natural defenses of sensitive skin to make it more resistant to the sun. And the resulting tan is stunning: natural, radiant and long lasting, while preserving the skin’s youthfulness.

Scarred skin must be protected from the sun for the first 6 months to prevent hyperpigmentation.

Indeed for at least 6 months – sometimes longer – scarred skin does not play its protective role and the sun’s impact can be much greater than on normal skin that is thick enough to offer optimal defense.

Before each exposure to the sun, and then every 2 hours, apply the No Sun 100% Mineral Screen Protective Care, which protects the skin - even the most sensitive - by optimizing its resistance under all sunlight intensities whilst preserving its youthful appearance.