Does artificial tanning prepare the skin for the sun?

2022-05-23T11:59:05.906Z

OUR HEALTH ADVICE - If users still often ask the question, the experts are categorical. Making vitamin D, looking good in all seasons or not looking like an aspirin when arriving on the beach... Artificial tanning centers are not short of arguments to make the promotion of their activity, although any advertising and any claim of a beneficial effect on health is prohibited . With the approach of the summer holidays, the idea that sessions in a tanning booth would be beneficial becaus

Making vitamin D, looking good in all seasons or not looking like an aspirin when arriving on the beach... Artificial tanning centers are not short of arguments to make the promotion of their activity, although any advertising and any claim of a beneficial effect on health is prohibited

With the approach of the summer holidays, the idea that sessions in a tanning booth would be beneficial because they allow you to prepare your skin for the sun is circulating a lot.

Are these sessions really useful, and above all, without risk?

Answer with two specialists in ultraviolet rays.

“

There is no longer any scientific doubt about the dangerousness of UV rays

”, immediately states Jean-François Doré, director of research emeritus within the “

Radiations: defence, health environment

” unit at the National Institute health and medical research (Inserm).

In 2009, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) classified the…

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