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Sunbeds
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I know sunbeds aren't good for you but I wouldn't mind trying it out even just once. Anyway I was wondering could you use sun tan lotion to help protect your skin? Also how much does it cost and things?
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not much point using a sunbed if youre gonna use sun lotion. The point is to get a tan, not to prevent one.
Just go on for a very short while -about 4 minutes for the first few times, then you wont burn. go up to 6minutes after that, but I never go on for more than 8 at a time.
The place down the road from me is £20 and thats for 30 mins, but you dont take all 30 minutes at once. max of 10 mins at a time. I think thats quite expensive, but i got a special offer when i booked mine, an hour for the price of half an hour.
One of the ones ive seen up town is 45p a minute, ill prolly go there next time, even though its not as handy for me, its not as if i go very often.
i think it does prevent a tan. it blocks the sunlight from reaching the skin. this means that the pigments in your skin dont show as much, because they only do this when the sun is out... not sure of the exact science behind it im affraid!
no, you're right. kinda.
sunblock is supposed to block out the sun. hence the name.
suncreen screens out the harmful rays that cause burning and ageing. the protection factors are supposed to extend your skin's natural protection from the harmful rays. so if you wear spf 10 you have 10 times your natural protection. but you will still tan, just more slowly and less harmfully. my mum never goes anywhere without her factor 15, and she's as brown as a very brown thing.
I've tanned in as high as SFP 50.
Also it reduces the skin-aging rays that make you look like an old hag.