May is National Sun Awareness Month and Melanoma and Skin Cancer Awareness Month, making it the perfect time to prioritize your skin’s health. This guide covers how sun damage develops, what to watch for, and how to protect your skin with daily SPF and professional-grade options like HydroPeptide Solar Defense Tinted Mineral SPF and HydroPeptide Solar Defense Non-Tinted Sunscreen. You’ll also learn how treatments like Advanced Corrective IPL and IPL photorejuvenation can help correct existing damage and restore a clearer, more even complexion.

Getting older doesn't necessarily cause age spots. Too much exposure to the ultraviolet rays of the sun is more likely to cause these unattractive blotches, than maturity. This is why age spots are also called sun spots. Other factors that make you more susceptible to age spots (no matter what your age is) are smoking, a diet high in refined sugars and fats, a lack of vitamins, and over consumption of poor quality saturated oils.