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GLOSSARY : For sensitive or sun allergy-prone skin
Your skin in the sun
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Your face skin
Your skin in the sun
Your scalp
Make-up for sensitive skin
Photosensitisation
Photosensitisation, which is an increase in the skin's sensitivity to UV radiation, is often due to a chemical substance or medicinal product. It appears as a rash. Photosensitisation may have no known cause, be induced by an external (perfume) or internal (medicine) trigger or be of genetic origin.
This word also belongs to the categories Sun for everyone, Children's skin and the sun.