BLACKSBURG, Va.- The month of May is melanoma and pores and skin most cancers consciousness month. Catherine Maxwell spoke to a younger entrepreneur, with a particular connection to the trigger.

Pictured: Erica Sullivan Feggeler together with her clothes line L.U.V (lowultraviolet).(WDBJ7)

Erica Sullivan Feggeler, graduate of Virginia Tech, who developed the solar secure clothes line L U V. a play on phrases for her firm, Low Ultraviolet. Feggeler got here up with a manner for the youthful and older crowd to remain trendy whereas additionally defending their pores and skin from solar injury.

“A lot of what is on the market is geared towards older individuals and I just didn’t feel great wearing those clothing.”

Her model was began after her mom acquired a malignant melanoma analysis. This persuaded Feggeler to get her first pores and skin test on the age of 21 the place she was instructed she had precancerous biopsies. “I had absolutely no idea skin cancer was something you had to worry about when you are young and in your 20s.”

This led her to have conversations with associates which she quickly realized that pores and skin most cancers is extra widespread than most assume.

“And every single conversation I had was people bringing in some form of skin cancer experience saying ‘Oh I had a family member or a loved one’ and every single conversation I had led me to want to start my own brand to help people be proactive versus reactive in their sun protection.”

Thus the L.U.V clothes line was shaped with the primary objective to #outshineskincancer. “Outshine skin cancer is our mantra, our motto and what we strive to do every single day.”

So how does this clothes defend one’s pores and skin from the solar or reside as much as their mantra? It all has to do with a factor known as UPF or Ultraviolet Protection Factor. This is a score given from the pores and skin most cancers basis on clothes.

“So you send your textile to the skin cancer foundation and they perform tests on it and they are the determining factor of what has that UPF rating.” For instance: A shirt labeled UPF 50 permits simply 1/fiftieth of the UV radiation to succeed in your pores and skin.

“Even small steps towards taking care of your skin health now can make such a big difference.”

Don’t overlook this summer season to like or L.U.V your pores and skin by defending it. Here are a couple of tips from the pores and skin most cancers basis for shielding your pores and skin: Wear UPF clothes, but additionally put on sunscreen on the uncovered elements of your physique. Wear UV blocking sun shades, search shade, and say no to tanning beds.

Future targets for L.U.V are to develop into males’s and child’s clothes. If , you may take a look at their web site at lowultraviolet.com

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