What is visible light?

See that pretty rainbow? That’s visible light. These frequencies of sunlight are reflected off everything, picked up by our eyes, and interpreted as colours and objects. While you wouldn’t think it, visible light from sunlight is damaging to our skin.

The damage created by visible light is relative to the intensity of the light. We now know, after many years of research, that the visible frequencies of sunlight activate free radicals in the skin in the same way that UVA frequencies damage your skin cells as well as structures within your skin. Visible light from the sun also causes aging, thinning and fragile skin.

Unfortunately, no conventional sunscreens are not able to protect from visible light. To do this, you’d need to cover your skin in something black to absorb the full colour spectrum or a mirror-like surface to reflect it. Naturally, we wouldn’t want to apply either of those things to our skin.

Helase to the rescue!

While we can’t always avoid visible light, we can protect ourselves from the effects. Lamelle Helase 50+ contains a super antioxidant – Pycnogenol – a very potent free radical-inhibitor. It protects healthy collagen and elastin from free radicals as well as enzyme damage. (When your cells attempt to repair themselves, they increase enzymes in a bid to remove damaged collagen and elastin. Unfortunately, continued sun exposure keeps these enzyme levels high and they eventually do more damage than good, causing the breakdown of healthy collagen and elastin.) Fortunately, Pycnogenol can reduce the enzyme levels to a point where they can still reconstruct skin but won’t damage it. Clever stuff indeed!