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As summer approaches, some sunscreen capsules promise to prepare the skin for tanning. Are they really effective? Response elements.
As summer approaches, magazines advise preparing your skin for the sun to protect your body from UV rays with a miracle product: solar capsules. For a few tens of euros, these food supplements would make it possible to tan faster and without danger thanks to beta-carotene, the molecule which gives the orange color to the carrot. So, is it effective? These capsules do not change our genetic predispositions. Some skins can tan, while others only manage to catch sunburn.
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Céline Couteau, lecturer at the University of Nantes, explains: “We cannot argue that a food supplement would be able to cause or facilitate tanning. At that point, we would be on gene therapy and we would be able to modify our genetics. Which is not the case.” These capsules can help pigment the skin, but offer no protection against the sun. The union of dermatologists even warns about these capsules. By making believe that one is protected, they would encourage to expose oneself more to the sun, which constitutes a risk.
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