http://thebeautybrains.com/2007/03/04/the-big-lie-about-tanning-lotions/ Cosmetic chemists answer your beauty product questions! We are a group of cosmetic scientists who understand what the chemicals used in cosmetics really do, how products are tested, and what all the advertising means. Mon, 22 Mar 2010 05:15:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://thebeautybrains.com/2007/03/04/the-big-lie-about-tanning-lotions/comment-page-1/#comment-51442 Tara Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:46:33 +0000 http://thebeautybrains.com/2007/03/04/the-big-lie-about-tanning-lotions/#comment-51442 Cancer's also linked to pharmaceutical drugs, birth control pills, microwaves, certain plastics, eating fish, and even hair dye and nail polish fumes, among hundreds of other things encountered in your daily life. Are people going to run out and stop doing all of those things too? Doubtful. While I agree that some people (with light skin types) should not tan because of their genetic predisposition to skin cancer and burning, I don't think the rest of us should be constantly bombarded with half-facts. Yes tanning has been linked to cancer, in the same class as arsenic, as the media likes to constantly point out, BUT included in that exact same category, is birth control pills, something millions of women take daily. Cancer’s also linked to pharmaceutical drugs, birth control pills, microwaves, certain plastics, eating fish, and even hair dye and nail polish fumes, among hundreds of other things encountered in your daily life. Are people going to run out and stop doing all of those things too? Doubtful. While I agree that some people (with light skin types) should not tan because of their genetic predisposition to skin cancer and burning, I don’t think the rest of us should be constantly bombarded with half-facts. Yes tanning has been linked to cancer, in the same class as arsenic, as the media likes to constantly point out, BUT included in that exact same category, is birth control pills, something millions of women take daily.

]]> http://thebeautybrains.com/2007/03/04/the-big-lie-about-tanning-lotions/comment-page-1/#comment-44860 thebeautybrains Sat, 07 Nov 2009 01:28:04 +0000 http://thebeautybrains.com/2007/03/04/the-big-lie-about-tanning-lotions/#comment-44860 @tanning Facts - Cancer is the body's natural reaction to UV damage too. @tanning Facts – Cancer is the body’s natural reaction to UV damage too.

]]> http://thebeautybrains.com/2007/03/04/the-big-lie-about-tanning-lotions/comment-page-1/#comment-44809 Tanning Facts Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:13:07 +0000 http://thebeautybrains.com/2007/03/04/the-big-lie-about-tanning-lotions/#comment-44809 Tanning is the natural response of the skin to Ultraviolet light exposure. Tanning is the natural response of the skin to Ultraviolet light exposure.

]]> http://thebeautybrains.com/2007/03/04/the-big-lie-about-tanning-lotions/comment-page-1/#comment-37614 Medical student Sun, 26 Apr 2009 15:51:42 +0000 http://thebeautybrains.com/2007/03/04/the-big-lie-about-tanning-lotions/#comment-37614 Putting an amino acid on your skin hoping it will absorb and be delivered to your melanocytes is crazy. Even if it is proven that some of the tyrosine will show up at the right place so it can be used, what is to say that the extra tyrosine will even be used by the enzyme that creates melanin? What if the limiting factor is not the supply but the conversion. UNBELIEVABLY STUPID. Putting an amino acid on your skin hoping it will absorb and be delivered to your melanocytes is crazy. Even if it is proven that some of the tyrosine will show up at the right place so it can be used, what is to say that the extra tyrosine will even be used by the enzyme that creates melanin? What if the limiting factor is not the supply but the conversion. UNBELIEVABLY STUPID.

]]> http://thebeautybrains.com/2007/03/04/the-big-lie-about-tanning-lotions/comment-page-1/#comment-31006 More facts less filler Thu, 11 Sep 2008 17:40:01 +0000 http://thebeautybrains.com/2007/03/04/the-big-lie-about-tanning-lotions/#comment-31006 Yet another piece of garbage posted on the internet intended to scare people. Quit using your scare tactics and properly educate people with respect to tanning and sunburning. Tanning is completely natural, smoking and burning are NOT. To compare tanning to smoking clearly shows a lack of understanding of both activities. Yet another piece of garbage posted on the internet intended to scare people. Quit using your scare tactics and properly educate people with respect to tanning and sunburning. Tanning is completely natural, smoking and burning are NOT. To compare tanning to smoking clearly shows a lack of understanding of both activities.

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