| The fact that the sun’s rays are beneficial to our well being is indisputable and controlled sunbathing can improve your health provide Vitamin D, increase resistance to infection, increase your vitality and improve your skin. However, over exposure can result in skin damage. |
Tips For Tanning
Always tan gradually and be aware of your skin type. Remove jewelry before tanning to avoid allergic reactions and tanning marks - if you are taking medication, remember some preparations increase the skin’s sensitivity to light. Ask your doctor if this applies to you. - Protect your lips with sunblock. Your lips cannot tan and therefore risking UV exposure. - Always use recommended “Tanning Lotions” to maintain healthy skin. - Always use shower gels and pH-balanced products to cleanse your skin. Harsh soaps strip the acid layer off your skin epidermis. This acid layer serves as a moisture lock. With the moisture gone, you can literally ‘wash away’ tanned skin cells more quickly. - Exfoliate dead skin cells and moisturise regularly. Remember that moist skin tans best.
Tanning Lotions
Indoor Tanning Lotions replenish the skin with valuable vitamins and nutrients that are lost when exposed to UV rays. Active ingredients supplement the skin with the same proteins that enhance the tanning process naturally. The latest lotion technology includes antioxidants that help prevent fine lines and wrinkles.
Applying indoor tanning lotion will before you tan will hydrate your skin during the tanning process keeping your skin in healthy condition (dry flaky skin does not allow maximum UV absorption and can cause a blotchy effect).
Specially formulated indoor tanning lotions enhance and extend the life of your tan.
Eye Protection
Always wear protective goggles when tanning.
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How your skin tans
Your skin consists of two layers - The Germinative Layer (the living epidermis) and The Horny Layer (the dead epidermis).
When the epidermis is exposed to ultraviolet light, melanocytes (Skin cells that make up around 5% of everyone’s outer layer) produce melanin (brown pigment) which is absorbed by the surrounding cells creating a barrier from ultraviolet light reaching deeper, more sensitive layers of the skin. This whole tanning process is the body’s natural defence against sunburn and skin damage. Cells in the epidermis germinative layer constantly reproduce and push old cells up towards the horny layer where, in time, they are cast off. The tanning process continues with the new cells replacing the older ones that have previously absorbed melanin.
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Ultraviolet Light
Ultraviolet light is made up of two components UVA and UVB, both of which affect the way you tan in different ways. UVA are long rays that penetrate the skin more deeply and slowly that UVB. The melanin in your skin absorbs the UVA rays, turning the pigment brown
UVB rays are short, intense waves of energy, stimulating melanocites in your skin to produce the new pigment we call melanin. IVB also ensures thickening of the skin, providing optimum protection against the rays from the sun.
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