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EPISODE · Oct 17, 2025 · 4 MIN

How does the UV filter in sun cream work?

from Question of the Week, from the Naked Scientists · host Dr Chris Smith

Listener Krzysztof has written in to ask how skin is protected from potentially harmful UV radiation by sun cream products. To help him with the answer, James Tytko put in a call to Antony Young, Emeritus Professor of Experimental Photobiology at King's College London... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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