Tanning Booths

Though similar in function and technical specificity, tanning booths differ from tanning beds by the user's standing position.

With tanning booths one stands, and this peculiarity makes the main advantage of such equipments. Sanitation is the actual thing for which tanning booths are given better ratings than tanning beds, since they need virtually zero contact between the body and the unit. The popularity of such devices also increased because of many false myths about tanning beds: there were people who pretended to have got herpes from prior users, for example. Though this remains far from the truth, negative publicity works too, and tanning booths became safer than tanning beds.

The truth is that regardless of whether of using tanning beds or tanning booths, cleaning substances are a must, not to mention that the high UV exposure makes bacterial outgrowth almost impossible. Tanning booths also prove singular by the higher power output in the reflecting UVA lamps. Thus technically speaking, tanning booths rely on 160 watt lamps, which are considerably more powerful than those used by tanning beds. This is also the reason for which the sessions are five or ten minutes shorter too, which could really matter for one who cannot afford to waste any time at all.

Tanning booths were acclaimed even further when the presence of the pressure points came into discussion. When lying on a bed, a person's body gets areas where the blood flow is reduced. The consequence of this lack of uniformity is irregular tanning, but the odds for such an accidental skin look areminimal with tanning booths. What users find more upsetting is the higher costs for the tanning booths use, as not anyone can afford to pay double or triple several times a week. This also explains why tanning beds outnumber tanning booths, as not all salons afford to make improvements.

Generally speaking, tanning booths fall under the same category as other tanning equipments: they pose similar health hazards and the national regulations apply similarly. Even if the time spent in tanning booths is shorter, the exposure to ultraviolets is not completely safe, and the potential hazards are amplified by the prior existence of some skin problem left undetected until the tanning session. Therefore, people should be more careful with their body, as good looks are not worth getting at the expense of personal health.