THE SUN AND YOUR SKIN

You don't have to turn into a vampire to protect your skin. Okay so we've ruled sun tanning out as a form of melanogenesis (the fancy name for tanning). What does that leave? Safe tanning! Safe tanning is the use of products that usually contain a moisturizer and DHA (dihydroxyacetone). Now before you sun worshippers flip over to another page lets look at the advantages of safe tanning:

1. You can safe tan even if you work days. DHA, the active ingredient in bronzers works by saturating the dead skin cell layer of your skin. Tans you by turning the protein in your dead skins cells brown. So you don't have to suffer from that fluorescent tan you got from work or from the short term pain and long term risk of being a weekend sun tanner.

2. Safe tanning is completely safe. The FDA has recognized the safety of DHA for over 30 years. Plus your skin won't age, wrinkle, and have the texture of a catchers mitt because of sun exposure. You can just look brown without the risks. Imagine yourself at 20 with a tan now imagine yourself 10-20-30 years later with a tan but without the aging effects of sun damage. (If you have sun damage already there is skin rehab we can do for you. See the section on broadband light therapy.) Yes it will make that much difference!

3. Safe tanning can be temporary or permanent. Safe tanning products affect the outside dead layers of skin. There's no long term commitment like sun tanning where you have to spend hours and hours dangerously exposed to the sun's DNA mutating radiation. You can cheat on your tan but be true to your good looks! The top layers of skin will flake off with the tan in 5 to 7 days with maybe a few remmants hanging around for a week or two. Unless of course you keep using the safe tanning product. You can have a tan in the winter without going to some tropical location. You can make it part of your skin regimen or you can just use it for the sunny months.Leave this field empty