You’ve heard it before and you’ll hear it again. The usual suspect behind the most common skin problems such as irregular pigmentation, a rough-textured complexion, wrinkles and sagging is — the sun.

And while increasing numbers of us now slather on the high factor sunscreens, there are an awful lot of us walking around with sun-induced skin damage.

Spending too much time basking in the sun triggers excess production of melanin, the skin’s colour pigment, which can quickly turn to unsightly dark splodges. And that’s not all. Cumulative sun exposure causes wrinkles and sagging by damaging the skin’s DNA, leading to the collapse of the supportive collagen and elastin fibres.