Difference Between Sunblock and Sunscreen?

by Suzanne Prochaska, RN, BSN

in Anti-Aging Skin Care, Most Recent, Sunscreen

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Is there a difference between sunblock and sunscreen? Technically yes, however labeling and common usage tend to use the two terms interchangeably. However there a difference.

Both sunblock and sunscreen will protect your skin from UVA and UVB light (aging rays and burning rays), they use different chemicals and those chemicals work in different ways, which is why different terms are used.

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