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Why do tanning systems equipped with high-pressure sunlamps create a deeper, darker and longer lasting tan?

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Why do tanning systems equipped with high-pressure sunlamps create a deeper, darker and longer lasting tan?

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High-pressure tanning system emit more of the longer UVR wavelengths that penetrate farther into the skin melanosomes located deeper in the skin. Since it takes these melanosomes longer to reach the surface of the skin, the tan lasts much longer and appears deeper and darker.