What are the roots of the professional indoor tanning industry?
Europeans started tanning indoors with sunlamps that emitted ultraviolet light as a therapeutic exercise to harness the positive psychological and physiological effects of exposure to ultraviolet light. This practice became widespread in Europe, particularly in sun-deprived countries, in the 1970s long before the first indoor tanning facility was established in the United States in the late 1970s. Although indoor tanning in the United States is considered a cosmetic exercise, the industry’s roots are therapeutic and many customers come to tanning facilities for that purpose.
A. Europeans started tanning indoors with sunlamps that emitted ultraviolet light as a therapeutic exercise to harness the positive psychological and physiological effects of exposure to ultraviolet light. This practice became widespread in Europe, particularly in sun-deprived countries, in the 1970s long before the first indoor tanning facility was established in the United States in the late 1970s. Although indoor tanning in the United States is considered a cosmetic exercise, the industrys roots are therapeutic and many customers come to tanning facilities for that purpose.
Europeans started tanning indoors with sunlamps that emitted ultraviolet (UV) light as a therapeutic exercise to harness the positive psychological and physiological effects of exposure to UV light. This practice became widespread in Europe, particularly in the sun-deprived northern countries by the 1970s—several years before the first indoor tanning facility was established in the United States. Although indoor tanning is considered a cosmetic exercise in the United States, the industry’s roots are therapeutic and many Americans do in fact visit tanning facilities for that purpose.
