Analysis of Skin Protection from the Dangers of Sun Exposure Using Color Variations and Types of Cotton Fabrics

Cotton fabric is a comfortable clothing material to wear in tropical climates. In addition the comfort aspect, cotton cloth expected be able protect skin from dangers of sun exposure. This research was conducted with aim knowing optimum amount protection produced by cloth, determining type and color that most effectively used as protector, SPF (sun factor) value category based on cloth. study three types each consisting four colors, well Digital Environment Multimeter which measure intensity sunlight units lux. The obtained comparing without protector (lux) using (lux). results show found black toyobo an 54.4 transmittance 1.8%. fabrics provided effective were blue toyobo, medina Japanese fabrics. Based obtained, it can seen fabrics, madinah have very good category. type, category, while orange Toyobo sufficient