The beach is not my ideal summer stop—not because I don’t find it beautiful and breathtaking or anything like that; it’s because the sun is always so scorching hot, and there’s just never enough shade available to protect my pale and pasty complexion. Sure, there are umbrellas that put off a little square of darkness; [...]

There are thousands of things to learn about the skin you’re in, says the American Academy of Dermatology, and their Kids Skin Health website is geared toward helping youngsters get a grip on all of it. On the site, Sammy the Skin Cell talks to kids about their skin, hair and nails and points them [...]

My oldest boy asked me recently, “How do we get freckles?” Somewhere buried in my head was the answer to this question — you know, something about skin pigment, melanin, the sun — but I wasn’t quite sure how to explain for an 8-year-old brain. My trusty laptop was nearby, though, so I did a [...]