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Innovative research in 2013 from Dr. Richard Weller, finding that nitric oxide released from the skin in response to UV exposure can decrease blood pressure, was a game changer in UV science. It identified another significant health benefit from UV …

In the five years since the Tan Tax was slipped into the Affordable Care Act at the eleventh hour, indoor tanning business have been forced to outperform the average American company. To cover the ten percent excise tax on tanning …

The best tanning training in the industry just got better. Find out why so many salons turn to Smart Tan for their technical training, and why the 2015 UV Tanning Certification has created a whole new category of operator training.…

Crowd favorites Rich Kizer & Georganne Bender are back this year to present the marketing portion of the new three-track format for the educational conference at Smart Tan Nashville, Nov. 13-15.

The three-track approach offers three different paths to a …

Carole Baggerly is executive director of GrassrootsHealth, a public health research organization.

As the dog days of summer drag on, a scientific consensus paper published last week reveals that people of all ages should take advantage of the midday sun …

Hundreds of women sampled Designer Skin’s Coco de Ville lavishly dark bronzer at 22nd Century Media’s “Guy – A Men’s Expo” on Saturday, June 20 at Chicagoland Speedway in Joliet, Illinois. The one-day event, held in Champions Park, included items …

Recently published data indicated that the Food and Nutrition Board made a statistical error when arriving at the recommended dietary allowance for vitamin D in 2010.

The statisticians estimated that 8,895 IU daily of vitamin D is needed to get …

Hundreds of thousands of Americans are represented by a coalition of advocacy groups that last week published an open letter urging Congress to repeal the federal excise tax on indoor tanning.

“The tax violates the President’s promise not to raise …