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Tanning beds may be even more effective as a vitamin D producer than was previously believed. That’s the consensus of research published by Dr. Michael Holick’s group at Boston University in 2012. Holick’s group studied 15 people aged 20-53, tracking …

More than two-thirds of indoor tanning businesses say they offer at least four levels of UV sunbeds, according to a SmartTan.com poll conducted this month.

Ninety-seven percent of salons say they have multiple levels of sunbeds and 90 percent have …

For college hoops fans, it’s the most wonderful time of the year but for businesses, maybe not so much. Global outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas, Inc. estimates that $134 million in wages are wasted during just the first two …

By Grant Miller, Salon Consultant

I never thought in my wildest dreams that I would ever be teaching anyone about math of any kind. It was one of my worst subjects in school. If the world depended on me to …

“The levels of vitamin D commonly being used today barely reproduce what our grandparents got from their greater time outdoors. And even that is well below what would have been the vitamin D intake of early humans living in East …

With 13 years in the tanning industry and 10 as a Norvell Sunless trainer, Laurie Retzlaff is something of a smarty-pants when it comes to sunless. As a sales manager for Stay Tan North, her passion is helping people start …

Forget being the lowest cost provider in your area, just make sure you’re the highest-value provider, Entrepreneur.com contributor Grant Cardone explains in his article “How to Raise Your Prices Without Playing the Blame Game.”

Just because your competitors want to …

“The dogma, now fossilized in print, is that any tan is a sign of skin damage. Tell that to Darwin. Pigmented melanocytes in the skin are a system that protects it from excessive UV, which evolved long before the advent …