The skin of the child requires a lot of attention because the stratum corneum, particularly subtle, it is not yet able to play a protective action against external agents. In particular children must be protected from sunlight as efficiently and as soon as early childhood to prevent burns that could provide the appearance of melanoma in adulthood.
The photo protection of children should be adjusted so as to reduce the impact of sunlight on the skin. The ideal solar filter must leave intact as much as possible the natural radiation of the sun, however, lowering the intensity and allowing thus a gradual adaptation of cells photo exhibition the skin. A product of sun protection for children really effective must be made taking into account the specific characteristics of the skin infantile:• The stratum corneum and epidermis thinner that in adults;
• The barrier less effective;
• The higher skin pH
• The very low buffering capacity resulting in ease of development microbial surface.
In addition, the photo protection of the child must be carried out on the motor activity that characterizes the various segments of growth, since not walk, in its early stages, up to a very dynamic.
It ‘important, then, that the photo protection child from infancy to adolescence, and independent of the phototype of the subject, is made with high protections broad UV spectrum and is modulated by age group and not the protective factor.