UV sessions: how often? And how long?
You may have one UV session per day, over a period of
five to ten days Allow at least 48 hours between the first
two sessions.
After such a course, you may rest the skin for a while.
Approximately one month after a course your skin will have
lost much of the tan. You might then decide to start a new
course.
On the other hand, it is also possible to have one or two
UV sessions per week after a course has elapsed in order
to keep up the tan.
Whatever you may prefer, make sure that you do not
exceed the maximum amount of tanning hours.
For this face tanner the maximum is 30 hours
(= 1800 minutes) per year.
Example:
Imagine that you take a 10 day UV course, with a 10 minute
session on the first day and 25 minutes' sessions on the
nine following days.
The entire course then includes (1 x 10 minutes) +
(9 x 25 minutes) = 235 minutes.
Over a year you may have 7 of these courses.
(As 7 x 235 minutes = 1645 minutes.)
From the table it will be seen that the first session of a
course should have a duration of 10 minutes.
This is not dependent upon individual skin sensitivity.
The face tanner
This face tanner emits predominantly UV-A, and also a very
small amount of UV-B.
UV and your health
After an excessive exposure to ultraviolet (from the natural sun
or from your face tanner), the skin may develop sunburn.
Beside numerous other factors, such as excessive exposure to
the natural sun, improper and excessive use of your face
tanner will increase the risk of skin and eye disease.
The nature, intensity and duration of the radiation on one hand,
and the sensitivity of the individual on the other, are decisive
on the degree in which these affects can occur.
The more skin and eyes are exposed to UV, the more risk
increases of diseases such as inflammation of the cornea
and/or conjunctiva, damaging of the retina, cataract, premature
aging of the skin and skin tumours.
Certain medicines and cosmetics increase the sensitivity to
UV.
Therefore, it is of great importance
- that you follow the instructions in sections "Important" and
"UV sessions: how often? And how long?";
- that you select the advised operational distance of 10 cm
(approx. 4");
- that you do not exceed the maximum amount of tanning
hours per year (i.e. 30 hours or 1800 minutes);
- that you always wear the provided goggles while tanning.
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• If you think that the sessions are too long for you
(e.g. if the skin gets taut and tender after the session),
we advise you to reduce the sessions by e.g.
5 minutes.
• For a beautiful all-over tan, turn your face slightly
during the session so that the sides of the face are
better exposed to the tanning rays.
Duration of the
UV session
in minutes
1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th
session session session session session session session session session session
- for persons with
very sensitive skin: 10 10-15 10-15 10-15 10-15 10-15 10-15 10-15 10-15 10-15
- for persons with
normal sensitive skin: 10 20-25 20-25 20-25 20-25 20-25 20-25 20-25 20-25 20-25
- for persons with
less sensitive skin: 10 30-40 30-40 30-40 30-40 30-40 30-40 30-40 30-40 30-40
rest of min. 48 hours
