TANNING
Summer is approaching, with the desire for sun, sea and tan.
Preparing the skin for exposure to sunlight with the help of indoor tanning is the ideal choice for all those who want to arrive prepared for the appointment with Summer.
To reactivate melanin, prepare the skin for tanning and immediately obtain an enviable tan, you can choose between a stand-up and a lay-down equipment in the two technologies, high and low pressure. Different devices, which however guarantee similar results: how do you choose between them? Here are the parameters to be taken into consideration to start on the right foot on our journey towards tanning!
The lay-down design is the first type of tanning equipment to have spread worldwide.
Those who use this kind of design feel comfortably inside them and are exposed for a variable time to the tanning UV lamps arranged horizontally above and – in most models – also below the back. The tan, therefore, will be complete and uniform, without requiring the slightest movement.
The tanning bed is particularly appreciated for the type of experience it offers to everyone: during the tanning session, in fact, you can completely free your mind, enjoying a few minutes of absolute relaxation favored by the lying position. The tanning time becomes, therefore, an extremely restful moment, to be lived also as an appointment with your own well-being.
The stand-up design recreates a real “solar shower cabin” that allows you to tan in a uniform and extremely practical way. All you have to do is access the cabin – equipped with the special glasses that protect your eyes from UV rays and the foot slippers – and expose yourself to UV lamps for a few minutes for the tanning session to be completed.
In recent years, this type of equipment has spread more and more massively, to the detriment of traditional tanning beds. Some argue that the tanning booth is more efficient, allowing faster results in less time, but this is not entirely true: a low pressure tanning booth and a low pressure tanning bed guarantee similar results, with the same exposure time, both from the point of view of the quantity and uniformity of the tan.
The difference between the two systems, therefore, should not be sought in the performance but in the type of experience they offer to those who use them.
In particular: the tanning booth is perceived as more hygienic than the tanning bed, because it requires less direct contact between the body and the surface of the machine.
The tanning booth can also be used by those who suffer from claustrophobia and, in general, it is more appreciated by those who do not like the feeling of being forced inside a narrow space. The anti-claustrophobic versions Vega XLe, Vega Lux Open 51 and HPO, in the Sportarredo range, have been designed with a particular attention to this exact type of need.
A tanning session in a tanning booth takes less time because you can get in and out of it extremely quickly. The time of exposure to the rays is therefore identical, but the overall duration of the treatment can be shortened. For this reason, the tanning booth is highly appreciated by those who, despite having limited time, do not want to give up tanning.
As we have seen, the performance of the stand-up and the lay-down tanning units are absolutely comparable to each other, if the technology that these machines integrate (high or low pressure) is the same. For this reason, there are no practical and objective reasons to prefer one of the two types of machinery over the other; particular characteristics of the person, such as the type of skin and the skin type, could instead lead to prefer low or high pressure technology.
What is certain, however, is that the experience that these tanning systems offer is very different, and each user has his own preference, which varies according to habits, the available time but also the approach to the solarium experience in general.
The tanning bed is appreciated by those who consider the moment of tanning as a relaxing break, in which to detach themselves for a few minutes from daily worries and commitments to finally take care of their needs, while the tanning booth is perfect for those looking for a quick and technological solution, which guarantees rapid results in consideration of a lower expenditure of time. So everyone gets their tan!
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