Tanning Advice
It is important to prevent UV overexposure and to protect the health of your
skin whilst tanning. Follow the tanning advice below to ensure you do not
overexpose yourself when tanning:
skin whilst tanning. Follow the tanning advice below to ensure you do not
overexpose yourself when tanning:
- Ensure that you moisturise your skin with a gel or cream that has been
specifically developed for indoor tanning. It's important to use moisturiser
before and after a session, as moisturisers reduce the drying effects of UV
exposure when tanning.
- Allow at least 24 hrs to pass before tanning again, whether it be indoors or
outdoors. Industry and medical standards advise waiting 48 hours, which is the
time it takes for skin to create melanin and to tan.
- When tanning naked, ensure that you protect sensitive areas of the body that
normally are not exposed to UV light. Skin on the underarms, backs of legs,
buttocks and genitalia can suffer severe sunburn from the same light intensity
that only tans the rest of your body. You can expose the sensitive areas
gradually by covering them halfway through tanning sessions for the first three
or four times you tan naked.
- It is a good idea to protect your lips with a lip balm that blocks UV light;
lips cannot produce melanin, so they are at risk from overexposure during a
tanning session.
- If you are sunburned, soothe your skin with a moisturiser, and don't try to
tan again until the redness completely subsides.