Aaron Andrews is a lifelong user of tanning beds. After working in tanning salons since the mid-80's, he moved to a tanning bed manufacturer and supply company. He now puts his years of knowledge and experience into a series of tanning tips to help you make the best tanning decisions and operates TanIndoors.com a site dedicated to improving your indoor tanning experience.">tanning tips articles about his experiences to help you make the best tanning decisions. Aaron operates TanIndoors.com - a site dedicated to improving your tanning indoor experience.]
Though tanning can be a relaxing and therapeutic way to escape the everyday stresses of life, it is very important to follow the safety rules set forth by the FDA. Most tanning salons provide eye protection while using their facilities; though each method differs. Some salons give you strap on goggles with highly tinted viewing holes, while others will give you a disposable aluminum eye shield for each eye.
There are many reasons you should wear eye protection in the tanning bed. The use of eye protection while in a tanning booth is just as important as wearing sunglasses on a really sunny day. Ultraviolet, UV, rays can severely damage your eyes and cause many problems later in life. Like sunglasses, the goggles provided by the tanning salon will block 100% of the damaging UV rays. UV rays can cause things as insignificant as eye irritation to more dangerous problems like cataracts and macular degeneration.
You may think "Why not just keep your eyes closed". Actually, eyelids only protect about 25% of UV rays from your eyes. This can cause short term damage to your eyes and some of the symptoms included: Red, itchy or watery eyes may be an indication of short-term damage, which means that your eyes have been sunburned.
While protecting the eye may seem important, it is just as important to protect the skin around your eyes. Long term exposure to UV rays can damage the fragile skin cells protecting your eyes. Too much unprotected exposure to UV rays can cause premature aging and wrinkles.
If you're concerned about sanitation and cleanliness, you don't have to use the goggles provided by the salon. You may actually purchase your own. Many tanning spas sell eye protection directly to their customers for just this reason. This can help assure that the protection you are using is completely free of germs and other eye related diseases that can be spread from customer to customer; ie. Pink eye.
So, next time you go out for a relaxing 20 minute nap in a tanning bed, make sure you use or bring your own eye protection. I'm sure you agree that a glowing tan is not worth the possibility of losing your eye sight
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