Sunday, June 24, 2012

Sunless tanning risks and warnings that it may cause cancer

Have a gorgeous tan is becoming increasingly popular all over the world. To many a rich bronze glow builds confidence just as much if not more than that of losing 20lbs!

I am one that discovered tanning beds at the age of 15. One visit and I was hooked. It make me feel beautiful and thinner which increased my confidence dramatically. Wow, $4 a session and going to high school every day with a beautiful  tan that no one else had was exciting! I continued going to tanning at salons to the point where is was just part of my every day routine. Shower, tan, and go to work. It was like putting on makeup. I never cared about skin cancer or wrinkles as most young people don't. Finally I reached my 30's and something happened. I thought to myself, why am I paying someone else to tan at their salon? Why don't I just buy a tanning bed and put it into my house? Yes, that's the answer!

So I did it! I put a tanning bed in my bedroom! Yes, in my bedroom. My husband felt like he was sleeping next to a coffin. To bad for him because I was in heaven!

Soon after buying the tanning bed a started feeling guilty. I felt guilty about what I was doing to myself. I don't know if they started talking more about skin cancer on the news or If I just started listening. Either way, my eyes began to open to what I was doing to myself. Wrinkles? Skin Cancer? What?

I continued tanning in my awesome tanning bed for another year before giving it away. Yes, I gave it away. I started getting so afraid of getting skin cancer I wanted that thing out of my house right away! So now its gone. Now what? I am 38 and I am at the point now that I feel psychologically ill if I do not have a tan..LOL So, I started experimenting with sunless tanners...

How can sunless tanners cause cancer? What is DHA?