Eli5: How does sunscreen prevent the skin from getting damaged by UV? Isn’t it eventualy absorbed into the skin?

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Thank you for the answers guys, this is very interesting to me!

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It blocks the UV in sun light. Like aluminum foil can block light. UV waves are small enough to physically damage your skin cells DNA

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunscreen has a nice photo you can see where they applied sun screen.

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