Archive for the ‘News’ Category
Salons Turning from Yellow Pages: Poll
Only 30 percent of indoor tanning facilities report using Yellow Pages advertising to promote their businesses, according to a SmartTan.com poll conducted in February — a finding in lock-step with the movement to social media and on-line search vehicles for …
AAD Admits ‘D’ May Prevent Melanoma
Making strange headlines this week, the American Academy of Dermatology acknowledged that some evidence now suggests that vitamin D — the sunshine vitamin — may in some instances be protective against melanoma just as it appears to be protective against …
Pre-Teen Girls Need More Vitamin D: Report
Girls aged 11-12 aren’t getting enough vitamin D and need more than recent recommendations have suggested, a study published this month in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition reports.
“In the new study, published in t
he American Journal of …
Salons Turn on the Red Light
Smart Tan Magazine this month takes a look at the salon industry’s biggest up-and-comer this year: red light therapy. Industry experts Eric Haynes from PC Marketing/uwe, Melissa Ball from Heartland Tanning and Jerry Deveney from JK-North America offer tips on …
Doctors Flocking To Sunbeds: Survey
Almost half of sunbed centers say that more doctors are utilizing tanning services in the past year according to a SmartTan.com survey — another indication that many in the medical community are catching on to a balanced message about UV …
Put ‘Smoking Comparison’ Up In Smoke
Thousands of news reports continue to suggest that “sun tanning is as dangerous as tobacco” because UV and cigarettes are both considered carcinogens. But the comparison is a blatant misrepresentation.
Smoker’s risk of lung cancer: 15 percent — or 2,000
Salon Rolls Out Red Carpet for Cause
Urban Sun will be celebrating its eighth anniversary by hosting a red carpet event to benefit the American Heart Association. The event is scheduled to take place February 18-20 and will have plenty of ways to support the San Diego …
75% Stat ‘Misleading’ Newspaper Reports
When a newspaper reporter bothers to explore the math behind dermatology’s biggest anti-tan slam, the numbers don’t add up.
“Even the IARC’s strongest study — which followed more than 100,000 women over eight years — found that less than three-tenths …
