 doesn't peel off, it actually heals enough and becomes tanned. Whereas if you didn't do that, you would end up with the classic case of skin peeling off and the itchiness and so on. So now it's not going to always, you get a really, really bad sunburn, it's not going to prevent the damage. The damage would have been too great in that instance. But I've seen it where pretty red skin will end up being soothed enough