You probably hear all the bad reason why you should not use indoor tanning products, but how often do you hear about indoor tanning benefits? Yes, there truly are benefits to tanning indoors.

UV rays from the sun are essential for maintaining good health. How many organizations that deal with day cares and schools are not told that they must have an outdoor recess. In the state of Oklahoma as with many states, The Department of Human Services recommends that all children play outdoors for at least 30 minutes per day unless the temperature is below freezing or they are in a high heat warning. This means before the temperatures are 100 degrees Fahrenheit or below 32 degrees Fahrenheit, your children will be sent outdoors to play. Why is this? Because the sun gives our bodies, much needed resources. The UV Rays from the sun help our body produce Vitamin D, which helps to build strong bones, teeth and blood cell formation.

In a recent study concerning indoor tanning benefits, it was proven that people that used a tanning bed had higher blood levels of Vitamin D than individuals that only used the sun as a source for tanning. A matter of fact, 165 adults during this study had a 90% higher average of Vitamin D concentration in their blood.

Indoor tanning benefits goes even farther than helping to provide your body with Vitamin D, in the study mentioned above, people that used indoor tanning every week for 6 months or more had a greater bone density in their hips. Past research has shown that Vitamin D helps protect our bodies against certain types of cancers, some autoimmune diseases like multiple sclerosis and type 1 diabetes, osteoporosis, hypertension, diabetes, depression, multiple sclerosis, and cancer of the bladder, breast, colon, ovary, uterus, kidney and prostate, as well as multiple myeloma and non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.

When tanning indoors you also minimize the risk of sunburn and learn how to tan properly to avoid sunburn.

Indoor tanning benefits can also include if you tan at home with your own tanning bed, the comfort of being at home. Tanning at salon’s is just as beneficial if not more so, because you have the assistance you need when you need answers to questions you may regarding how long you should tan, what type of lotion to use for your type of skin, how many times per week you should tan, etc…