Environmental factors can dramatically affect skin, causing the life of your sunless tan to vary depending on the season and climate in which you live. Sunless tanning is a reaction between DHA and the proteins in your skin, it occurs in the outermost layer, your Epidermis. Every 28 days your Epidermis sheds completely, revealing a …Read More
Sunburn is completely different from a tan. The red color is increased blood flow, sent to the skin to help your body repair the damage done from overexposure. . PROTECTION: A smart tan naturally enhances protection against sunburn. Melanin literally enshrouds skin cells protecting them from getting too much UV exposure. Additionally, as the skin …Read More
What are the benefits of tanning in a tanning bed? Tanning beds are used to provide an environment that allows for cosmetic tanning. Many people believe they look good and feel better when they have a tan.. . . Will tanning lotion speed up the tanning process? The products that we sell are designed to …Read More
Tanning is natural, and it works the same whether you tan outdoors or in a salon. The advantage of using sunbeds is having complete operator control over the intensity and duration of a session, which results in minimal risk of an uneven tan or a sunburn.. CONTROLLED UV: When it comes to UV light, both …Read More
Vitamin D is important for good overall health and strong and healthy bones. It’s also an important factor in making sure your muscles, heart, lungs and brain work well and that your body can fight infection. . Your body can make its own vitamin D from sunlight. You can also get vitamin D from supplements …Read More
In an unsurprising, yet telling finding, recent research identified a high risk of vitamin D deficiency during winter months for people in snowy, northern cities. Nearly half the residents of Buffalo, NY, have insufficient levels of the sunshine vitamin in the winter, and 25 percent may be considered deficient, the study from the University of …Read More
“The dogma, now fossilized in print, is that any tan is a sign of skin damage. Tell that to Darwin. Pigmented melanocytes in the skin are a system that protects it from excessive UV, which evolved long before the advent of sunscreens. Even if there was hard evidence that melanoma was UV-induced it would be …Read More
An excerpt from “Bright Ideas for Treating the Winter Blues” By, Melinda Beck The Wall Street Journal, Health Journal December 1, 2009 . Vitamin D: This is created by the sun’s rays on the skin, and therefore declines during the winter. Deficiencies have been linked to a wide variety of illnesses, including depression. So it …Read More
Low vitamin D levels were associated with less sleep and poorer quality sleep in a new study published in the journal Sleep, the Vitamin D Council reports. . Men with serum levels below 30.5 ng/ml were 2.15 times more likely to experience short duration and 45-65 percent more likely to have lower sleep efficiency than those with levels above 40.5 …Read More
Tanning beds may be even more effective as a vitamin D producer than was previously believed. That’s the consensus of research published by Dr. Michael Holick’s group at Boston University in 2012. Holick’s group studied 15 people aged 20-53, tracking their vitamin D blood levels as they tanned in tanning equipment three times a week. …Read More
