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Old 06-21-2010, 02:50 PM   #1 (permalink)
 
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Are you providing positive tanning information on your website?

I took a shot at writing up a somewhat educational piece on our website about tanning, I tried to present some facts that would get young tanner's thinking for themselves on the safety and benefits of tanning. I did add the phrases "our opinion, make a choice best for you"... Any feedback on how to make it better or corrections based on your knowledge are welcome. The point of this page was to not just copy the smart tan stuff but to give it a fresh simply spin. Does anyone else have a page like this?

P.S. I'm adding a tanning salon directory for salons outside of our stores geographic area so if you want to be listed let me know.

http://www.sexytansunlimited.com/html/tanning_faq.html
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I commend you on your educational steps!

For your cause, you can site sources for the benefit of your article as well. So keep that in mind. Then it is not your opinion, but the recognized professionals.

Here are a few tips you asked for:

Do spell check your write up. (example: Melanin vs. Malanin).

Speaking for myself, I always notice improper punctuation in many articles I read and especially when people are using contractions. If there are a bunch of errors, I look at the article as unprofessional.

Watch for sentence structure conflicts. Again, this is just me and my anal writing and reading so take it for what it is worth.

You are very wise in getting a second set of eyes. We all want our authorship's to be great. I still get another set of eyes for my writing.

Keep up the good work!
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I don't think many salons would want to be linked with your site as you are a lotion diverter.
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I don't think many salons would want to be linked with your site as you are a lotion diverter.
Yeah I understand that, we have to compete with all the online lotion discounters inside our store too, but we do successfully sell at retail in store. We spend some money on getting traffic to our site and 60% of our facebook following isn't even in our state! I guess they like the name? Anyway If one of these girls is on our site and wants to find a tanning salon near her, she's already at my site. If your salon is listed on my site she might show up for a tanning bed package. Yes you might not get a lotion sale but if your staff is good you probably will sell a lotion if it matches the customers needs at the moment.

Being listed is always optional... :)
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I too can't imagine salons opting onto your site. How many salons do you currently have listed?

I think I'll keep my lotion sales in-house.
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I'm pretty sure it is against the lotion companies policies for you to sell their lotions online at all...just saying...
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I'm pretty sure it is against the lotion companies policies for you to sell their lotions online at all...just saying...
What makes you think that? I'm a salon owner too and if lotion companies don't want their product sold online they would stop it. Search tanning lotion on google and that's your answer. :)

People who are willing to buy online will, other will buy from their tanning salon. I didn't create this game I'm just playing it.
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STOP!!!!!

Please remove all of this bull$h!t from your website. You have zero clue what you are talking about and are just doing more harm by letting people read your dribble than if they read nothing at all.



All there is to know about tanning! Simplified.
So you want to learn a little about tanning before you go to a tanning salon. People want to be tan for many different reasons. Some people want to get tan before they go on a sunny vacation to some place closer to the equator like Cancun or the Bahamas where the suns UV rays are more intense and will fry pale untanned skin. While others simply like the look of being brown which is known to have a slimming effect. Whichever reason fits you, knowing the basics of tanning will help you achieve your goal safely.

Safety First in Tanning!
Many people have assumed that there is no such thing as a safe tanning bed but is that really true? Has the media not reported enough on the good things a tanning bed provides? The fact is the darker your skin is the less risk you are at for getting skin cancer You cannot say this. You are violating the FDA regulations. You cannot make any health claims, PERIOD!!!according to the World Health Organization. You as an individual must come to your own conclusion for yourself but here is our opinion.

The human body is an amazing specimen and your skin has the ability to take the suns rays and convert them into the beneficial Health claim...vitamin D. It also has the built in ability to protect you from too much sun in a process called “ultra internal conversion” where Malanin typo dissipates 99.9% of the suns UV rays in the form of heat, preventing DNA damage that causes Malignant Melanoma (Skin Cancer). In the normal mode of operation we are made to be in the sun and use it to our advantage. health claimThe Sun is the energy source of all living things. While cancer, a cellular malfunction / mutation, is a risk when excessive sun exposure occurs, it’s not an absolute and no medical or scientific study has defined excessive as each individual is different. You can make the choice to minimize your risk by regulating your exposure using sunscreen when outside and only tanning 4 to 5 times a month inside.

Too much of anything will harm you!
This includes food, water and our sun. When we talk about tanning we have to keep this in perspective. Just as some people smoke their whole lives and never get lung cancer, some people work out in the sun their whole lives and never get skin cancer either. While others do get cancer with even minimal exposure to the sun. Scientists believe that people may be genetically predisposed to cancer and that is why not everyone gets cancer. medical opinion

Many news programs and magazine articles over the past few years have demonized indoor tanning as a for sure way to get skin cancer, this is simply not true, just as being outside in the sun does not guarantee you will get skin cancer. These articles point to the scientific fact that UV light from either the sun or UV bulbs has been proven to be a group 1 carcinogenic, what they don’t mention is that there is no proven amount of exposure to UV light that says every person exposed for a certain period of time will get skin cancer. Nor do they mention that by increasing your Malanin typo with small doses of UV-B exposure, your skin will be better equipped to neutralize UV penetration that causes DNA mutation leading to skin cancer! medical claimYou MAY get cancer, just as you may get cancer from being outside in the sun, drinking red wine, eating BBQ’d foods, smoking, being exposed to synthetic sweeteners, chemicals in plastics, etc. As a matter of fact, you probably didn’t know that the sun emits more types of Ultraviolet light and radiation than a tanning bed. there is only one type of ultraviolet light, that is ultraviolet light, there are however different parts of the spectrumWe must remember that the articles in magazines and on TV are scripted, written and edited to be dramatic for the purpose of selling advertisements and their content, not to provide a balanced scientific assessment of risk. A balanced perspective that doesn’t have a victim or urgency doesn’t sell or get peoples attention.

The U.S. government and many other governments around the world regulate the tanning industry. So the posted maximum exposure time on the tanning bed, as required by law, is the amount of time the government has determined is safe in one day. The Government has not determined thes, the manufacturer has We like to say once a week but no more than twice a week in a tanning bed is reasonably safe again, can't make safety claimsrule of thumb for most people.

Take a second to read how your skin tans under UV light and picking a tanning bed will be easy!
You have heard the term UV. It stands for Ultraviolet light. Without getting to technical it’s a type of light. There are 2 types of light we need to know about when we tan our skin. UV-A and UV-B. The sun emits both of these types of light and a third called UV-X. UV-X Um, you mean UV-"C" which is gemicidalis harmful to your skin and is not present in an indoor tanning bed nor is it present outside or we would all be dead.

Now on to tanning your skin.
Your skin is made up of layers, one of the functions of these layers is to have the ability to protect you from the sun. One of the side results of this process is darking of skin pigments. There is something in your skin known as Melanin. This is what turns brown when exposed to UV-A light. Some people are born with lots of Melanin, these are the people that tan quick, dark and stay dark all summer. Some people are born with hardly any Melanin and these are the very fair skinned people who barely tan, if at all. Most people fall somewhere in the middle and it has everything to do with genetics and the environment where your ancestors evolved.

If you have darker skin and tan easy you can turn that Melanin brown real quick in a tanning bed with mostly UV-A. If you don’t have lots of Melanin you must build it up by getting short, frequent exposure to UV-B light because UV-B builds Melanin melanin will stay in your skin for the natural exfoliation cycle from just one dose of UVB, you do not need repeated doses to continually activate melanin to tan. It will be present in your skin after the inital dose and will continue to turn brown.. Once you build it up you can then turn it brown in a bed with mostly UV-A light.

It’s important to know that UV-B will burn your skin quicker than UV-A. It takes more UV-A to tan you than UV-B to burn you. Read that again. yes, please read that again, it is bull$h!t. UVA will also burn you.So this is why the more expensive beds have more UV-A than UV-B because it’s better balanced to tan and not burn you. Huh??? It has zero to do with thew price of the bed, it has to do with the overall mW/cm² output and A to B ratio think of it as the ideal mix of each type of light. This process of limiting or filtering the UV-B light coming from the bulb is more expensive and costs more to produce than not filtering the UV-B and that is why a session in this type of bed costs more. Huh??? Gettin' my waiters on now...

Burning your skin is damaging your skin and is never good. In our salon we get many new clients that are misinformed and think that they need to burn to tan. That is not true and they are harming and aging their skin unnecessarily. 'bout time you said something right, you are extremely misinformed too...

Some people only burn and never tan.
Unfortunately, your only option to be darker is a bronzing spray tan or lotion. Remember when we turn tan from UV light we are building protective layers you are not building any layers, you are just oxidizing melanin but with a spray tan it’s just color so you will still burn just as easily in the sun as if you where snow white

Understanding tanning beds
Two types of bulbs to look for:

Low pressure bulbs:

Low pressure bulbs are long tube lights like you’d see in a shop light or florescent kitchen or office, retail lighting, except that they are specially made to emit a mix of UV-A and UV-B light for tanning purposes. Since UV-B is what burns your skin, low pressure bulbs are rated by how much UV-B they emit.

Think of it like this, a clear bulb emits 100 units of UV-B and 100 units of UV-A. STOP!!! A clear florecsent lamp wouldn't emit anything as there would be no phosphorus coating to be excited by the electrons flowing from one end of the vacuum to the other, this is florecsent lamp 101 you know...Since it takes 100 units of UV-A to tan you but only 50 units of UV-B to burn you, we need to filter out 75 units of the UV-B so as to not burn you but still get you tan. Nothing is filtered out of a florescent tube, the output is based on the blend of the phosphorus, you know, the white powder that flies around when you break one, not to be confused with the white powder that is cut up on your coffee table right now...Unfortunately because everyone’s skin is different it’s not that simple. Because of this these bulbs generally come in the following ratings.

9.0 very high UV-B: percent of what???Will burn you. Only people with extreme sun exposure can handle these.
8.5 very high UV-B Percent of what???Will burn you. Only people with extreme sun exposure can handle these.
6.5 Moderate UV-B Percent of what????a safe place to start if fair skinned for 5 minutes per session.
2.5 Very Low UV-BPercent of what???: Known as a Browning bulb because you get mostly UV-A.

If you are very pale and you tan in a 8.5 UV-B bed you will burn every time before your skin has the chance to get enough UV-A to tan. no you won't, that is what the timer is for, to regulate the doseage. You will never burn if properly administered.Eventually you might build up enough Melanin to tan but this is not necessary. Find a Mid level UV-B bed instead.

Note: High UV-B beds are sometimes called RED BEDS OR BURN BEDS. You should avoid these at all costs, and instead build your way up with short sessions in a mid range 5.5 UV-Bpercent of what?????? bed. Then switch to a Low UV-B bed to turn brown.

High Pressure Bulbs:

The only true 100% UV-A beds are called High Pressure beds. Bull$h!t!!! HP has up to four times the UVB that a regular base bed has. Not measured by your nonsense marketing "percent UVB" ratings but by actual UV output measurements done with meters and spectralradiometers. I won't go into the actual makeup of the spectrum because it is apparent that you won't get it anyway.They get their name from the type of light bulb they use. These are almost always small bulbs with big 7” round reflectors. Most facial tanning bulbs are these type and they’re easy to recognize.OOOOOH, you know the beds that have the facials all over!!!! {insert crack pipe photo here} Technically a fair skinned person with little Melanin will see no change under 100% UV-A. Too much UV-A can burn you too. So if you’re snow white don’t get into a high pressure bed from the start! This is an advanced tanning bed for people with a good base. WRONG!!!!!! This is the best bed to start with and use exclusively. It has the harsh part of the UVB spectrum filtered out, notice I said that it has the harsh part of the UVB spectrum filtered out, this is not to be confused with the myth that HP beds have less UVB, remember I said earlier that HP beds have up to four times the power behind UVB. If you don't have meters and don't know how to use them then this means nothing to you.

What about time in a tanning bed?
The maximum amount of exposure you get is regulated by the government. NO!!! it's regulated by the timer.So that means you will get the same amount of UV light exposure in a 20 minute bed as a 8, 10 or 12 minute bed. Faster beds use high wattage light bulbs to get you that same dose of light faster. Usually a 20 min bed has 26 to 32 light bulbs that are 100 Watts each. A 10 minute bed likely runs 40 to 50 light bulbs that are 160 watts each. The amount of lamps means nothing. The amount of UV energy does.

Some salon owners will put in High UV-B bulbs in a 20 minute bed and limit you to 10 minutes calling it a fast premium bed and the higher UV-B will make it seem strong, but this is not the same as getting 10 minutes of balanced lower UV-B and More UV-A in a higher end bed.The UVB will be the same, it will have more UVA. UVB is the determining factor when it comes to setting the maximum time based on the spectralradiomer measurements.

So there you have it. That’s as simple as we could make it! Hope it was helpful. Be safecan't say safe!!! and you’ll get all the benefits Medical opinoinfrom tanning, look good and feel great!
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Geez Brian,

You sure do know how to communicate effectively to get what you want! Does that name calling work for you in real life? I'm sure you make some valid points but the fact that you act like a child doesn't help your cause, I don't need to insult you, you did a good job all on your own.

I posted this for guidence and technical correction, not foul language, personal attacks and insults. That being said, you missed the point that the audience of this write up is 18 to 25 year old girls who don't give a **** about light meters and technical specifications, they really don't! I never proposed this to be a scientific write up but rather an simplfied explanation of the tanning process.

You can pick apart all the little details like wanting to know "8.0 % of what..." "what" doesn't matter to my audience all they need to know is an 8.0 UVB bulb is a reference to a powerful UVB bulb in a tanning bed. Stating that the timer determins the exposure is correct but the label on the bed determins the maximum allowable exposure and my statement is correct too, I wasn't talking about how a bed turns on and off as that is irrelevant to the point I was making. My reference to a clear bulb putting out 100 units was not meant to be technical, it's a hypothetical layman's explanation (of course I know bulbs are not clear, they may not technically filter but that really doesn't matter to the tanner and you know it). How I get to the point doesn't need to be technical, as long as the end reader has some understanding of how they get tan because 99% of the population doesn't have any understanding at all. As for saying that I cannot quote the World Health Organization's statement and reference their site is incorrect, it's protected as free speech, I'm not giving medical advice I'm quoting! I may need to use quotations and and add a few "may" statements but the bottom line is the bottom line. You can write up a long article as technical as you like and post it on your website but trust me nobody will read. I'll take the valid points you made and try and make my write up better and more accurate as I see necessary. As for doing more harm? Give me a break that statement is rediculous.

I have one question are you a rep for sun block company?

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STOP!!!!!

Please remove all of this bull$h!t from your website. You have zero clue what you are talking about and are just doing more harm by letting people read your dribble than if they read nothing at all.



All there is to know about tanning! Simplified.
So you want to learn a little about tanning before you go to a tanning salon. People want to be tan for many different reasons. Some people want to get tan before they go on a sunny vacation to some place closer to the equator like Cancun or the Bahamas where the suns UV rays are more intense and will fry pale untanned skin. While others simply like the look of being brown which is known to have a slimming effect. Whichever reason fits you, knowing the basics of tanning will help you achieve your goal safely.

Safety First in Tanning!
Many people have assumed that there is no such thing as a safe tanning bed but is that really true? Has the media not reported enough on the good things a tanning bed provides? The fact is the darker your skin is the less risk you are at for getting skin cancer You cannot say this. You are violating the FDA regulations. You cannot make any health claims, PERIOD!!!according to the World Health Organization. You as an individual must come to your own conclusion for yourself but here is our opinion.

The human body is an amazing specimen and your skin has the ability to take the suns rays and convert them into the beneficial Health claim...vitamin D. It also has the built in ability to protect you from too much sun in a process called “ultra internal conversion” where Malanin typo dissipates 99.9% of the suns UV rays in the form of heat, preventing DNA damage that causes Malignant Melanoma (Skin Cancer). In the normal mode of operation we are made to be in the sun and use it to our advantage. health claimThe Sun is the energy source of all living things. While cancer, a cellular malfunction / mutation, is a risk when excessive sun exposure occurs, it’s not an absolute and no medical or scientific study has defined excessive as each individual is different. You can make the choice to minimize your risk by regulating your exposure using sunscreen when outside and only tanning 4 to 5 times a month inside.

Too much of anything will harm you!
This includes food, water and our sun. When we talk about tanning we have to keep this in perspective. Just as some people smoke their whole lives and never get lung cancer, some people work out in the sun their whole lives and never get skin cancer either. While others do get cancer with even minimal exposure to the sun. Scientists believe that people may be genetically predisposed to cancer and that is why not everyone gets cancer. medical opinion

Many news programs and magazine articles over the past few years have demonized indoor tanning as a for sure way to get skin cancer, this is simply not true, just as being outside in the sun does not guarantee you will get skin cancer. These articles point to the scientific fact that UV light from either the sun or UV bulbs has been proven to be a group 1 carcinogenic, what they don’t mention is that there is no proven amount of exposure to UV light that says every person exposed for a certain period of time will get skin cancer. Nor do they mention that by increasing your Malanin typo with small doses of UV-B exposure, your skin will be better equipped to neutralize UV penetration that causes DNA mutation leading to skin cancer! medical claimYou MAY get cancer, just as you may get cancer from being outside in the sun, drinking red wine, eating BBQ’d foods, smoking, being exposed to synthetic sweeteners, chemicals in plastics, etc. As a matter of fact, you probably didn’t know that the sun emits more types of Ultraviolet light and radiation than a tanning bed. there is only one type of ultraviolet light, that is ultraviolet light, there are however different parts of the spectrumWe must remember that the articles in magazines and on TV are scripted, written and edited to be dramatic for the purpose of selling advertisements and their content, not to provide a balanced scientific assessment of risk. A balanced perspective that doesn’t have a victim or urgency doesn’t sell or get peoples attention.

The U.S. government and many other governments around the world regulate the tanning industry. So the posted maximum exposure time on the tanning bed, as required by law, is the amount of time the government has determined is safe in one day. The Government has not determined thes, the manufacturer has We like to say once a week but no more than twice a week in a tanning bed is reasonably safe again, can't make safety claimsrule of thumb for most people.

Take a second to read how your skin tans under UV light and picking a tanning bed will be easy!
You have heard the term UV. It stands for Ultraviolet light. Without getting to technical it’s a type of light. There are 2 types of light we need to know about when we tan our skin. UV-A and UV-B. The sun emits both of these types of light and a third called UV-X. UV-X Um, you mean UV-"C" which is gemicidalis harmful to your skin and is not present in an indoor tanning bed nor is it present outside or we would all be dead.

Now on to tanning your skin.
Your skin is made up of layers, one of the functions of these layers is to have the ability to protect you from the sun. One of the side results of this process is darking of skin pigments. There is something in your skin known as Melanin. This is what turns brown when exposed to UV-A light. Some people are born with lots of Melanin, these are the people that tan quick, dark and stay dark all summer. Some people are born with hardly any Melanin and these are the very fair skinned people who barely tan, if at all. Most people fall somewhere in the middle and it has everything to do with genetics and the environment where your ancestors evolved.

If you have darker skin and tan easy you can turn that Melanin brown real quick in a tanning bed with mostly UV-A. If you don’t have lots of Melanin you must build it up by getting short, frequent exposure to UV-B light because UV-B builds Melanin melanin will stay in your skin for the natural exfoliation cycle from just one dose of UVB, you do not need repeated doses to continually activate melanin to tan. It will be present in your skin after the inital dose and will continue to turn brown.. Once you build it up you can then turn it brown in a bed with mostly UV-A light.

It’s important to know that UV-B will burn your skin quicker than UV-A. It takes more UV-A to tan you than UV-B to burn you. Read that again. yes, please read that again, it is bull$h!t. UVA will also burn you.So this is why the more expensive beds have more UV-A than UV-B because it’s better balanced to tan and not burn you. Huh??? It has zero to do with thew price of the bed, it has to do with the overall mW/cm² output and A to B ratio think of it as the ideal mix of each type of light. This process of limiting or filtering the UV-B light coming from the bulb is more expensive and costs more to produce than not filtering the UV-B and that is why a session in this type of bed costs more. Huh??? Gettin' my waiters on now...

Burning your skin is damaging your skin and is never good. In our salon we get many new clients that are misinformed and think that they need to burn to tan. That is not true and they are harming and aging their skin unnecessarily. 'bout time you said something right, you are extremely misinformed too...

Some people only burn and never tan.
Unfortunately, your only option to be darker is a bronzing spray tan or lotion. Remember when we turn tan from UV light we are building protective layers you are not building any layers, you are just oxidizing melanin but with a spray tan it’s just color so you will still burn just as easily in the sun as if you where snow white

Understanding tanning beds
Two types of bulbs to look for:

Low pressure bulbs:

Low pressure bulbs are long tube lights like you’d see in a shop light or florescent kitchen or office, retail lighting, except that they are specially made to emit a mix of UV-A and UV-B light for tanning purposes. Since UV-B is what burns your skin, low pressure bulbs are rated by how much UV-B they emit.

Think of it like this, a clear bulb emits 100 units of UV-B and 100 units of UV-A. STOP!!! A clear florecsent lamp wouldn't emit anything as there would be no phosphorus coating to be excited by the electrons flowing from one end of the vacuum to the other, this is florecsent lamp 101 you know...Since it takes 100 units of UV-A to tan you but only 50 units of UV-B to burn you, we need to filter out 75 units of the UV-B so as to not burn you but still get you tan. Nothing is filtered out of a florescent tube, the output is based on the blend of the phosphorus, you know, the white powder that flies around when you break one, not to be confused with the white powder that is cut up on your coffee table right now...Unfortunately because everyone’s skin is different it’s not that simple. Because of this these bulbs generally come in the following ratings.

9.0 very high UV-B: percent of what???Will burn you. Only people with extreme sun exposure can handle these.
8.5 very high UV-B Percent of what???Will burn you. Only people with extreme sun exposure can handle these.
6.5 Moderate UV-B Percent of what????a safe place to start if fair skinned for 5 minutes per session.
2.5 Very Low UV-BPercent of what???: Known as a Browning bulb because you get mostly UV-A.

If you are very pale and you tan in a 8.5 UV-B bed you will burn every time before your skin has the chance to get enough UV-A to tan. no you won't, that is what the timer is for, to regulate the doseage. You will never burn if properly administered.Eventually you might build up enough Melanin to tan but this is not necessary. Find a Mid level UV-B bed instead.

Note: High UV-B beds are sometimes called RED BEDS OR BURN BEDS. You should avoid these at all costs, and instead build your way up with short sessions in a mid range 5.5 UV-Bpercent of what?????? bed. Then switch to a Low UV-B bed to turn brown.

High Pressure Bulbs:

The only true 100% UV-A beds are called High Pressure beds. Bull$h!t!!! HP has up to four times the UVB that a regular base bed has. Not measured by your nonsense marketing "percent UVB" ratings but by actual UV output measurements done with meters and spectralradiometers. I won't go into the actual makeup of the spectrum because it is apparent that you won't get it anyway.They get their name from the type of light bulb they use. These are almost always small bulbs with big 7” round reflectors. Most facial tanning bulbs are these type and they’re easy to recognize.OOOOOH, you know the beds that have the facials all over!!!! {insert crack pipe photo here} Technically a fair skinned person with little Melanin will see no change under 100% UV-A. Too much UV-A can burn you too. So if you’re snow white don’t get into a high pressure bed from the start! This is an advanced tanning bed for people with a good base. WRONG!!!!!! This is the best bed to start with and use exclusively. It has the harsh part of the UVB spectrum filtered out, notice I said that it has the harsh part of the UVB spectrum filtered out, this is not to be confused with the myth that HP beds have less UVB, remember I said earlier that HP beds have up to four times the power behind UVB. If you don't have meters and don't know how to use them then this means nothing to you.

What about time in a tanning bed?
The maximum amount of exposure you get is regulated by the government. NO!!! it's regulated by the timer.So that means you will get the same amount of UV light exposure in a 20 minute bed as a 8, 10 or 12 minute bed. Faster beds use high wattage light bulbs to get you that same dose of light faster. Usually a 20 min bed has 26 to 32 light bulbs that are 100 Watts each. A 10 minute bed likely runs 40 to 50 light bulbs that are 160 watts each. The amount of lamps means nothing. The amount of UV energy does.

Some salon owners will put in High UV-B bulbs in a 20 minute bed and limit you to 10 minutes calling it a fast premium bed and the higher UV-B will make it seem strong, but this is not the same as getting 10 minutes of balanced lower UV-B and More UV-A in a higher end bed.The UVB will be the same, it will have more UVA. UVB is the determining factor when it comes to setting the maximum time based on the spectralradiomer measurements.

So there you have it. That’s as simple as we could make it! Hope it was helpful. Be safecan't say safe!!! and you’ll get all the benefits Medical opinoinfrom tanning, look good and feel great!
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Re: Are you providing positive tanning information on your website?

It does matter. Don't treat yur clients as silly little 19 year olds that don't need to know, that is where the problem starts. Misinformation promotes misguidance. If you are going to provide information to people then provide the proper information. You can still put that in layman's terms but don't make crap up to make a point. People are capable of understanding the "facts" if you provide them with facts. It would be just as easy to explain it properly instead of all of the incorrect reference you are posting.

I you are going to teach someone something then teach them the correct things. I you don't then they pass on the wrong information to people they know ans so on and so on and so on... and an epidemic starts, pretty much the same problem you have so outlined in your website. The industry is in trouble right now because the people in it for the most part don't have a clue and spread this crap around. It was apparently spread to you so stop it now, rethink your presentation and make your site a valuable resource instead of more evidence that we need Government intervention and to be shut down.

The dermotology community will keep banging us over the head because we look like a bunch of idiots shoveling crap like that to the general public. You can make things interesting to read without it looking like a fifth grade essay project. Be factual, tell the facts, don't make up crap that sounds lime it is correct. Just tell it like it is. Don't spread ignorance.
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