Friday, October 10, 2014

Solarium: to tan or not?


Solarium: to tan or not? The tanning - benefit or harm?


Useful tan in the Solarium or not very clear answer to this question is no. Because indoor tanning has its advantages and disadvantages. On the one hand, using the Solarium you can achieve a beautiful skin tone. Besides, tanning, skin is slightly dried and cleared of acne. During the tanning warms the muscles, which promotes relaxation and recreation, disinfected light.




However, excessive passion tanning can cause serious problems - the growth of tumors, impaired hair structure, skin discoloration, loss of elasticity, premature aging of the skin.





From tanning lamp depends on the security of tan in it


Important health parameter of any of the Solarium is the number, capacity and quality of bulbs that are used in it - because it directly affects the speed and security of tan.




Some tanning salons are devices that have already been in use. Ultimately, it's not so bad, but for the client's skin is very important that the resource tanning lamp was not exhausted. Check the lamp life "by eye" to the client will not have to believe the employees of the Solarium on the word. However, if the Solarium legal, there should be a register of the use of lamps that checks the sanitary and epidemiological service. So before you take ultraviolet baths, is worth checking the existence of such a log.





Types of tanning:


vertical, horizontal, turbo-Solarium




Design sunroom can be divided into:




vertical Solarium;


- tanning beds.




Accordingly, to have a tan in a position similar to the name of the Solarium. On this basis, it is more convenient to tan in tanning beds. Indeed, in the vertical solariums will not lie down, and stand with your hands up.




In tanning beds, the client rests directly on the surface of the device, which before and after administration of ultraviolet baths treated with a special disinfectant solution. In some horizontal tanning beds use disposable film. Deck faces in the Solarium provides a separate lamp, the power of which is somewhat less than in other lamps. However, at the request of the client, the lamp can be turned off at all as to enable the deck only the top or bottom lamp Solarium.




The name "turbo-Solarium" means that the device terrace equipped with a ventilation system. This system prevents overheating as a tanning lamp and the customer for whom the fire turns into an illusion of staying on the coast and enjoy the cool breeze. If the air conditioning system in the apparatus is not provided, then at long tan in the Solarium possible heat stroke.




The duration and frequency of indoor tanning




The duration of a single session tanning and the number of treatments depends on the specifics of the client's skin, so, first of all, the worker of the Solarium should correctly identify the type of his skin.




Experts divide all of us at media four skin types.




"Celtic" type

pink-white skin, red or light brown hair. Representatives of this type of tanning is very bad, and it is they who are most at risk of burns.


"European type"

with pale skin, blonde or brunettes with pale skin. Tan slowly and acquire the desired hue after many sessions.



"European" with dark skin characteristic of brunettes and dark brown with brown leather, which quickly and heavily tanned, and the risk of getting burns for them is minimal.


"Mediterranean" type - happy owners of brown skin and dark hair quickly and heavily tanned almost without any risk of burns.




So if you have light skin, begin to sunbathe standing with a minimum duration of stay in the Solarium - 5-6 minutes and increase this time gradually. If the skin is sun already seen, you can sunbathe in the Solarium, starting with a 10-minute session and complete a course of treatments the maximum duration is 20 minutes.




If the body tans well to achieve a Golden brown enough and five procedures in the Solarium, if not - will have to take at least ten sessions.




To obtain the desired skin tone is desirable tanning every day or two. To support the color produced is to repeat the procedure every 2-3 weeks. You cannot tanning twice a day, and it is not advisable to combine natural and artificial tan on the same day.





Contraindications of indoor tanning


Despite protestations to the absolute safety of tanning in solariums, there are some contraindications.





Tanning is impossible!


- In the presence of oncological diseases; skin diseases should consult a doctor.


Two days before and after depilation.


- When the use of drugs or cosmetics containing sulfinamide, antibiotics: tetracycline, furocoumarin, phenacetin, activated coal, oil of bergamot, a gold salt, otherwise can cause burns or skin irritation.





Who Solarium harmful?


- Children up to 15 years;


People with very pale or freckled skin;


People with many moles or pigmented spots;


- Pregnant;


- Suffering from diseases of the liver, kidneys and heart, high blood pressure, infectious patients;


- Vitiligo patients and people with skin damage.




Be careful with the drugs and cosmetics!




These medications, products and perfumes should not be combined with a tan in the Solarium (they provoke a sun Allergy).





Medications:


- Antibiotics: tetracycline and its derivatives;


- Antidepressants;


- Anti-diabetic drugs with low glucose content;


- Antihistamines (anti-allergic) drugs;


- Antipsoriatics drugs;


- Diuretics and reduce the pressure medications;


Female sex hormones, including contraceptive pills;


- Vasodilator drugs;


- Tranquilizers.





Cosmetics and foods:


- Antibacterial substances included in deodorants, Soaps and cosmetics;


- Perfumes and essential oils perfumery;


- Dyestuffs included in the composition of cosmetics: eye shadow, lipstick, blush;


- Funds from acne;


- Foods: celery, carrots, parsnips, cilantro, parsley, fennel, dill, mustard, figs.




Rules of indoor tanning




Before tanning, thoroughly clean the skin, remove makeup and perfumes.


- Remove the jewellery and ornaments.


Directly before and after tanning in a tanning bed is not necessary to take a shower.


- Tanning in the Solarium, chest better to cover - especially not worth the risk if you are older than 30 years.


- You cannot tanning twice a day.


- Do not combine artificial and natural tan on the same day.




To get an even tan tanning recommend without sunglasses. However, if the customer is afraid of enclosed spaces (in fact cover the Solarium is closed and he is inside the capsule), he is offered special glasses, in which you can sunbathe with her eyes open.




By the way, customers with signs of claustrophobia caught not so rare - it is important for them to know that someone is always there. However, after several sessions timid clients feel better, and some of them in the Solarium just help gradually get rid of phobias.





Cosmetics for tanning - types of creams


Since the tanning lamp is different from the action of the sun, no protective equipment for the skin need not apply. If you, on the contrary, seek to accelerate the tanning process, you can use special cosmetics for sun.





There are three types of cosmetics for tanning:



Developers designed for entry-tan people with light, delicate and sensitive skin. They contribute to the initial degree sunburn, helps us to see the effect of tanning in the Solarium after a short time. This happens due to the high concentration of vitamin E, or combinations of different natural ingredients: oils, extracts, etc.



Activators help enhance your tan when you have reached the stage at which Your skin is quite tanned, but you would like to give it different shades, to deepen the tan.



Fixers fix the sun, soften and moisturize the skin.


In addition, professional tanning in the Solarium vary in degree:




I degree for entry-tan;


II degree - for a more intense tan;


III degree for deepening tan;


IV degree - to strengthen tanning and skin care.





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