What a chapoe says about your UV protection
Here’s what we know about hat styles and their ability to protect us from the sun.
- Smaller heads received greater protection
- Hats and caps provide more protection when worn closer to the equator – where the sun is higher in the sky
- Broad-brimmed, bucket-type (think Gilligan on Gilligan?s Island), and legionnaire-style (baseball cap with a flap over the ears and neck) provide similar sun protection
- The forehead, nose, and ears get the most protection
- The chin and neck get little protection
- Baseball caps are less effective than hats
- Hats and caps provide less protection than sunscreen applied according to manufacturers? recommendations
Wear your hat to complement your sunscreen protection.
9/11/06 21:47 JR
