Tanning bed bulbs, as used in salon tanning beds, are a big part of the secret to that perfect tan. You can have any depth of tan you desire with the wide choice of bulbs available for tanning beds. There are deep-tanning lamps, bronzing bulbs, face lamps and plenty of others too. These high-tech lamps employ the best technology to tan you safely.
Furthermore, there are different lamps for every type of skin too. The tanning bed industry produces different bulbs for dark to light skin colours. Besides that, you can choose to have a soft tan, a golden tan, a bronze tan, or the deepest, darkest tan anyone has ever seen. You can even change the kind of bulb, as your tan deepens, so that you can achieve all kinds of quite stunning results.
A tanning lamp is like having your own source of sunlight in a tube. In fact, it is even better, because you are in control of it! Modern tanning bed bulbs are manufactured to the strictest standards and so are very safe. The tanning industry and the government have set strict rules to ensure your safety. So, if you carefully follow the instructions supplied with the bulbs, you may be confident that you will not be putting your health at risk in order to look like a Hollywood film star.
The UV rays they emit are well within prescribed safety limits to ensure you stay healthy and tanned. Furthermore, there are plenty of choices open to you, ranging from UVB and UVA combinations to straight UVA. It is your choice! So, why not get a little extra tan?
Tanning bulbs are ultraviolet-emitting devices that serve as the main component of the various sorts of tanning beds and booths on the market. Sun bed lamps have as their main purpose the enhancement of a cosmetic tan, although these bulbs also have a reputation for the successful treatment of eczema and psoriasis. The depth and type of tanning produced depends on the spectrum of light produced by the tanning lamps and the vast majority of them produce more ultraviolet light than the sun.
Nearly all tanning bulbs use a unit called a ‘ballast’ to regulate their power consumption. The ballast stabilizes the flow of electrical energy inside the lamp and is required to ensure that the bulbs use only the necessary amount of wattage that they require in order to work effectively.
There are various kinds of tanning bulbs on the market including reflector sunbed bulbs and high output lamps. The majority of bulbs fall into two main categories: high pressure and low pressure types. (Within the tanning industry, it is usual to refer to high pressure tanning lamps as bulbs and low pressure tanning bulbs as lamps). Both high and low pressure tanning bulbs require a lack of oxygen in its housing.
High pressure tanning bulbs vary in length from three to five inches and operate with 250 to 2,000 watt ballasts, 400 watt high pressure tanning bulbs are the most common. They are often included in the face tanning component of a tanning bed. High pressure tanning bulbs are usually made of quartz glass and an additional specialized coating, which is essential to filter out the very harmful UVC ultraviolet rays.
HP tanning bulbs contain a small amount of mercury or argon and produce ultraviolet light in high concentration. The handling of high pressure tanning bulbs should be performed very carefully and never with naked hands, because even a tiny amount of oil from your hands will cause the bulb to fail prematurely or even break and the resultant spillage of mercury is potentially very serious. High pressure tanning bulbs ought to be replaced after roughly 1,000 hours although they will continue to produce light for up to 10,00 hours
Low pressure tanning lamps are much like fluorescent lights, but the glass that makes up low pressure tanning bulbs naturally filters out UVC ultraviolet rays. Low pressure bulbs have a lifespan of six hundred to sixteen hundred hours of use.