The Dangers Of Spray Tanning Are Often Ignored
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Spray tanning salons have popped up in many cities in recent years. More and more people are getting tans by various sunless tanning methods.
People are electing to do so because they believe that spray tanning is safe. While there is some merit to this, the fact is, it is not completely true.
The Food and Drug Administration regards the active ingredient in spray tanning solutions to be safe when applied topically on the skin. People interpreted such as statement as meaning spray tanning is safe.
Dihyroxyacetone might be safe when applied on the skin but it is dangerous if inhaled or if it comes in contact with the face, especially the eyes, lips and nostrils.
The Food and Drug Administration actually advises people to wear eye goggles, nose plugs and to cover their lips when getting a spray on tan. This advice is ignored because the tanning salons don’t enforce such recommendations.
What is even more worrisome is that many spray tanning solutions also include additional chemicals that are dangerous to human health. Mercury is an example of such a dangerous chemical.
Sadly this information is brushed aside because people have settled for the belief that sunless tanning is safe.
This could very well be correct but using some caution is a good thing. Find out what chemicals are in the tanning solution before it goes on your body.
The more aware a person is the less likely they will suffer negative consequences. Tanning salons won’t warn you about the dangers because if they did, they might lose a customer.
The more a person knows and the more aware they are the less likelihood for regret. Don’t rely on the tanning salon to protect your health, you must be proactive in this regard. Their main interest is to make money and not your health.
Follow common sense and you’ll be fine. And after all common sense is that a synthetic product is almost never a safer alternative to something natural.
Too much sun is bad for the skin but replacing natural suntans with sunless chemical tans is not necessarily a healthy alternative.
Truth be told spray tanning is relatively unknown as far as negative repercussions go. It will take a lot more research and testing before we can claim spray tanning is indeed safe.
The best advice for the meantime is to be careful when getting a sunless tan. Follow the advice of the FDA whenever you enter a spray tanning booth.