Safety Steps
- Protect Skin
The easiest way to protect the skin is to avoid overexposure at all costs. You should make
certain skin is completely clean before tanning, because some ingredients in cologne
and makeup can increase sensitivity to light. Also, follow the recommended exposure schedule
from your tanning consultant and always leave at least 24 hours between sessions. Blue Lagoon
sells a full line of tanning products that are VERY IMPORTANT TO THE TANNING PROCESS. We
have found these to be the best products available. Use of the recommended accelerators
will increase tanning results as well as moisturize your skin! The heat and light from
tanning sessions can dry your skin. Because moist skin tans best, we recommend using
tanning accelerators before each session and moisturizers after and between all visits.
- Protect Eyes
Eye damage is the most unnecessary risk people face while tanning. Protective eye wear
is provided and must be worn. Unfortunately, a number of tanners still push eye wear aside,
fearful that wearing it could create white rings around their eyes that will contrast
with their tan. Some clients will try to use inferior eye protection that can be penetrated
by ultraviolet light, such as sunglasses, towels, cotton balls, or their eyelids. It is
essential that protective eye wear be worn and worn correctly. Also, people who wear contact
lenses may want to remove them before tanning indoors. Although the protective eye wear
will protect the eyes and lenses from damage, the heat emitted from the unit may dry out the
lenses and irritate the eyes.
- Protect Sensitive Body Parts
Some body parts have sensitive areas of skin that lack protective melanin because they are
not normally exposed to light. Clients should especially protect these areas from overexposure.
These sensitive body parts should be covered with a towel or clothing halfway through a
tanning session, a process which allows the skin to develop melanin slowly. Eventually,
melanin production will catch up to the rest of the body, resulting in an even, overall tan.
You should also protect your lips with a balm containing an SPF, because lips contain no
melanocytes and cannot produce melanin as protection.