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By Jasmine Browley ·Updated May 26, 2022
If you’re a skincare professional, you’ve probably heard of the Fitzpatrick Scale.
Developed in 1975 by Thomas B. Fitzpatrick as a way to measure the response of different types of skin to ultraviolet light, it has a numeric scale with 6 classifications varying by melanin amount.
It was originally created to estimate the amount of damage caused by the sun to those
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