This week, the Canadian Cancer Society released a series of updates to its sun safety recommendations. Surprisingly, this marks the first time in more than 20 years that there’s been a national consensus on best sun safety practices. The changes took a year of consultation with organizations such as Cancer Care Ontario, the Canadian Dermatology Association and other national and provincial health authorities.
Read MoreConsumer research firm The Benchmarking Company recently surveyed 4,500 North American women on how they shop sunscreen and other SPF-containing products.
Read MoreSoon, getting a lobster-red burn won’t be the only way to notice a suncare fail. The whizzes at L’Oréal’s Technology Incubator have created a first-of-its-kind stick-on skin sensor that monitors how much UV light hits the wearer over the course of up to five days. Revealed this January at the gadget-geek trade show CES, it will launch this summer as the La Roche-Posay My UV Patch.
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