Impact of blue light on skin: Protect against Digital Aging

If you’ve used our skin analysis machine with us at a pop up, or at our office, you’d have had your skin age revealed to you. But as you are reviewing your results on your phone, did you know they are changing by the second?

Even as you are reading this, or as we are writing this, blue light (or High Energy Visible Light) emitting from our screens is releasing free radicals deep into our skin and breaking down collagen and elastin, contributing to hyperpigmentation and premature skin ageing.

Difference between Blue Light and UV Light (Ultraviolet Light)

Blue Light are very short, high energy waves that sit next to UV Light on the light spectrum. While both light types come naturally from the sun, blue light is also emitted from screens of computers, phones, or any electronic device. But blue light skin damage is much less talked about than UV damage, when in fact its harmful effects penetrate deeper into your skin compared to UV.

How to prevent blue light damage:

1. Use sunscreen: They aren’t lying when they say prevention is better than cure. Opt for a physical sunscreen as opposed to a chemical one for daily use. Physical sunscreens use physical active ingredients such as zinc oxide that reflect blue light away. On the other hand, chemical sunscreens are specifically targeted to absorb UV light, but not blue light. We recommend trying our best selling, 100% physical sunscreen, Morning Glow with an SPF of 50++. Infused with Niacinamide, Avocado and Acai extracts, it protects your skin from UVA and UVB Rays while giving you that glow without leaving a white cast.
2. Turn your screen settings to ‘Night Mode’: The warmer, yellow hue eradicates the blue light emission from your screen, making it gently on your eyes and kinder on your skin
3. Incorporate skincare products with ingredients that reduce blue light effects: Ingredients like niacinamide, peptides, and antioxidants help neutralise free radicals from blue light and create a barrier against it.

For peptide-infused products, we recommend our newly improved Youth Beam Serum formula now with more peptides and anti-ageing properties to reverse the signs of skin ageing.

And try our Daylight Oasis Vitamin C Serum, packed with 15% L-ascorbic acid, the purest form of Vitamin C. This powerful antioxidant will help combat oxidative stress caused by the free radicals in blue light.