Tan Safe: Tips For Healthy Tanning
Do you know that many benefits are associated with tanning as well? Well, healthy tan is a must for you and improves your bones, protects your skin from radiations and kills many pathogens inside the body. But to enjoy all these benefits you need to follow certain precautions. By following appropriate care and precaution you will enjoy a perfect tanning session.
Careless tanning has affected people around the globe. And it can affect you too. Many people are reported to have suffered from deadly skin cancer due to excessive as well as unprotected exposure to UV rays. And such reports have given enough room to the myths associated with tanning. Wherein, we should have worked towards spreading tanning do’ and don’ts to have a healthy tan. Better late than never. Here is a list of caution for you.
1. First things first, know your skin type first. For, your skin type plays a crucial role in deciding duration of your tanning session.
2. Now before you lie for a tanning session, it is important for you to clean your skin completely from the ingredients of any makeup or perfume or deodorant as these things make your skin more prone to sunburns. Take a shower before a session if possible.
3. Moisturizing your skin with lotions, before and after the tanning session, is also a must. Simply do not rub on completely, allow some visible portion of cream to remain on the skin to increase protection.
4. If you are tanning under the sun, wear hat and sunglasses. Tanning bikinis and nickers are also essential both for sun tanning and sunless tanning. Inside a tanner wear those goggles meant for tanning only.
5. Tanning session should be carried out for 15 to 20 minutes only. This time exposure doesn’t allow the UV rays to make extreme penetration. For sun tanning prefer the morning light since it has low harmful radiations.
6. Don’t drink water for three or four hours after tanning.
7. Give at least a gap of three days before the next tan. This time is needed for the synthesizing the melanin in your skin.
8. Moisturize more and more from the next day of tanning. It helps to gain the tan faster. Choose SPF and DHA formula lotions or moisturizers. They supply the required nutrients to your skin.
9. Consult a doctor immediately if you find something unpleasant like red rashes or spots or irritation of the skin after or during the session.
Ashish Jain
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Comments
I need some healthy helpful tips for natural tanning.?
I will be going to central America this summer and will be in the sun on a daily basis.
I have extremely pale skin, a handful of moles (some which have been removed as they were cancerous looking) and freckles. Considering my disposition to burning easily, I’ve always covered myself in high SPF creams to protect myself from UV damage. Despite the use of creams, I do tan slightly (when using 40-45SPF), however my legs and midriff don’t tan at all WITHOUT SPF, whereas my face, arms, and back do.
I’ve been told that you are less likely to burn once you are tanned. Now, I’ll be there for a month at least, both in jungle inland and on the coast. I would like to gradually tan, get my freckles back (they disappear in winter) and still keep myself safe from incurring too much damage.
I know that even with a low SPF I am bound to tan faster everywhere but on my legs and stomach, so how can I get a relatively even tan, without laying myself out to bake (I won’t really be able to).
I just don’t want to tan above whilst my legs remain pasty-white sunlight refracting limbs.
Thanks.
Considering you are predisoed to skin cancers I would not lay in the sun nor use a tanning bed. With pale skin it makes you more likely to get cancer. Always use at least 45 sunscreen and a special ont for the face. Natural tanning is just not for you. Sorry…
I would highly recommend a spray tan. They will put iit wherever you want. It is the very best thing for your skin. While on vacation take be sure to take jergens tanning lotion. Probably the lighter one for you. That will extend your tan while there. Be Safe & have a great time! !Hope this will help you. Good Luck!!
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