Mushmouth
05-13-2017, 09:39 AM
"I got back to my hotel and was so frustrated because they both were not wearable, they both left a white cast on me," she said.
Because of the misconception that black people's skin contains too much melanin to get cancer from the sun, black Americans are diagnosed with cancer much later, and have a lower survival rate.
"It’s of concern that 63 percent of African American participants in a survey said they never used sunscreen," stated a report on the Skin Cancer Foundation's website in August, 2016.
https://www.attn.com/stories/17120/scary-reason-these-women-made-sunblock-specifically-black-skin
Because of the misconception that black people's skin contains too much melanin to get cancer from the sun, black Americans are diagnosed with cancer much later, and have a lower survival rate.
"It’s of concern that 63 percent of African American participants in a survey said they never used sunscreen," stated a report on the Skin Cancer Foundation's website in August, 2016.
https://www.attn.com/stories/17120/scary-reason-these-women-made-sunblock-specifically-black-skin