About Home Tanning Beds

Types of Tanning Beds

Tanning beds have been in existence for several decades, however, great strides have been made in recent years in the quality and technology. Today, avid tanners, can enjoy many different features, such as facial tanning, arm and side tanning and leg tanning. Most tanning beds are also equipped with stereo speakers so that the user can listen to her favorite music while tanning. The tanner can not only experience a super tan, but can relax while she is achieving that tan.

There are two main categories of tanning beds, low-pressure tanning beds and high pressure tanning beds, although, there are many other types of tanning beds, but they are not as popular.

Tanning bed users are most familiar with the low-pressure tanning beds. These are indoor tanning beds the ones that are most often used in the tanning salons. They utilize the more conventional low-pressure fluorescent tubes that are most like natural sunlight. In fact, tanning in the low-pressure tanning beds is very similar to tanning outdoors in the natural sunlight. Because of this fact, it is believed that the low-pressure tanning beds are healthier and safer than the high pressure tanning beds since they are most like the natural sunlight.

The high-pressure tanning beds utilize high pressure quartz lamps. These lamps are specifically designed to emit a higher percentage of UVA rays, which are the tanning rays, and less UVB rays. Faster tanning is achieved by using a high UVA content. In fact, sometimes it is as much as six to eight times faster. Also the reduction in the UVB element decreases the chance that the tanner will get sunburned.

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