According to our online poll "You and the Sun", 91% of you sometimes catch or often get sunburn! Why are we still so numerous to turn at least once to the red crayfish during the summer?
Our advice and good reflexes not to fall into the trap and to limit the redness and the pain of the sunburn.

Why do we get a sunburn?
Probably for a question of lifestyle and attitude towards the sun: we are in a hurry and happy to be on vacation, we want to make the most of it. So, we go to the beach without preparation , with a skin that has not seen a ray of the year, or almost! A truly too brutal transition. Fortunately, the quest for ultra-caramel tanning of the 80's lived. For the record, the first campaign to warn against risks related to solar exposure dates from 1985.
And we can never repeat it enough: protecting oneself against the sun is essential. Each sunburn definitively starts our sun capital, consequence, one risks to be prematurely with a skin wrinkled or even allergic to the sun.

Our tips to avoid turning red scrivisse
- The ideal is to gradually acclimate your skin , in the spring, exposing yourself five minutes here, ten minutes there, under mild morning rays or at the end of the day.
- Prepare your skin with the UV thanks to a cure of solar capsules. The aim is to gently wake up the natural antioxidant capacities of the skin and therefore its natural defenses . The right timing? Start a cure one month before departure. This may have some stroke but the risk of sunburn actually degrades .
- When on vacation, avoid the sun at any cost between 12 and 16 hours. And we do not just talk about the beach: a ride or a hike will cause the same damage. It is not the place that is decisive, but the verticality of the rays: at noon they pierce the atmosphere and come into contact with our skin much more violently than at 5 pm when they are more oblique.
- Lastly, last call : nothing more treacherous than a cloudy sky to turn crayfish, then distrust!

Oops, I still caught a sunburn
Do not panic, if a traitorous ray succeeded in surprising you, here is the procedure: wash the area with cold water, without soap and without rubbing, then apply in thick layer, way poultice, a soothing balm (balsam St. John's wort, Biafine). Especially avoid milks formulated with a preservatives, they are irritating.
The idea is to saturate the skin of body fat so that it repairs best during the night after the sunburn of the day. Finally, do not re-expose to the UV the area attacked by a sunburn. Even with a cream with a 50 protection rating. At least for three days. Then, either cover it or you "hide" it under a thick layer of SPF50!