Red Light Tanning: Is It Safe? - Trophy Skin

Does the Source of Red Light Matter?

Many tanning salons offer a full-body bed with red light. These are powered with fluorescent bulbs that still produce UV rays. Although it can do a full body treatment at one go, it also emits UV radiation that can produce changes at the cellular level.

LED bulbs are safer to use and these can be manufactured specifically to be UV-free. So yes, the source of red light matters.

Does Red Light Tanning Make You Tan?

Red light tanning doesn’t cause your skin to darken. It is a term coined to mean basking under red light to combat aging skin.

Even though red light beds do not cause you to tan, it uses fluorescent bulbs that still emit UV rays. Although it is unclear how strong or what wavelength the red light beds emit, it is still unsafe, as it increases your risk of developing skin cancer.

Using a lamp withmedical-grade LED bulbsis safer to use because these are UV-free. It will not make you tan because there is no UVA or UVB that changes the skin’s color.

UVA penetrates the skinand causes sun damage or age spots in the long run. UVB, on the other hand, usually burns the superficial layers of the skin or what we often call “sunburn.”

Those who have had severe sunburns at a young age, have a family history of skin cancer, and people with very fair skin, freckles and moles, and red hair have a higher rate of developing skin cancer.

If you want to enjoy the benefit of Red Light Therapy, you have to choose methods that don't emit UV rays.

Can you combine tanning and red light therapy?

You can do tanning if you really want but honestly, it defeats the purpose of doing red light therapy. According toAshley Bell, the resident esthetician at Trophy Skin,“Sun exposure is not good for your skin, and neither is the tanning bed because it gives off the UVA and UVB rays.”

90% of fine lines, wrinkles, and discolorationcomes from sun damage, while the other 10 percent is just natural aging. So if you use red light therapy to help your skin, but damage your skin with tanning, you won’t ever really get ahead. Instead, you’ll just be in the same position.

What is a Safer Alternative?

Trophy Skin is committed to producing safe and effective at-home solutions to common skin problems. With the advent of red light therapy, Trophy Skin developed RejuvaliteMD Anti-Aging Red Light Therapy. It is powered by 120 LED bulbs that are UV-free.

The LED panel is evenly divided to contain 4 different spectrum of red lights to combat aging. Red (660nm), Yellow (590nm), Amber (630nm), and Infrared (880nm) are different wavelengths of red light that work great in reducing signs of aging by creating fibroblasts, elastin, and new collagen.

It also decreases the enzymes that break down collagen, thus improving the skin’s elasticity.

RejuvaliteMD is FDA-cleared and is safe to use at home. It has a built-in auto shut-off timer that will turn off after 5 minutes. With as little as 5 minutes a day, you can combat fine lines and wrinkles and reverse sun damage safely.

For better results, you can use it up to twice a day, a minimum of 5 days a week, for the first 60 days.

Don’t be fooled into stepping into harmful, UV-rich red light. ChooseRejuvaliteMDand bask under safe and UV-free red light.