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NEWS RELEASE 6-JAN-2021 – Source: Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Melanoma of the skin is now the third most commonly diagnosed cancer in the U.S. Diagnoses of melanoma are six times as high today as they were 40 years ago. While …

By Dr. Marc Sorenson, Sunlight Institute

Vitamin D levels and sunshine are exceptionally important to human health, and therefore we should be aware of vitamin D science. The Vitamin D Society of Canada is always at the forefront of the …

By Ashley Laabs

Through the course of working in a retail environment, you’ll invariably come across difficult clients. But if they only knew what you did, the world would just be a better place for it! Here are some of …

“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 …

As we kick off the New Year, there are more ways than ever to grow your sunless business. The popularity of spray tans is continuously mounting, there’s new equipment technology, more product options to sell, and salons are beginning to …

The sunshine vitamin may play a greater role in placating Seasonal Affective Disorder than previously thought, researchers now say. Earlier research and common sense have long suggested a relationship between sunshine, vitamin D and SAD, but evidence now shows that …

By Scott Nichols

In today’s world, most of us watch video clips online. If you’re like my son, you watch sports clips of athletes making the last-minute shot, touchdown or goal. What’s not shown is the other 99% of the …

By Brandon Cardinal, Sunless, Inc.

Are you ever confused as to what it is you do at your salon when it comes to spray tanning, sunless tanning and or self-tanning. It is our job as an industry to define what …