It seems pretty obvious that unless you’re part of a certain subculture that shall remain nameless, you’ll be less likley to lay out in the sun or use a tanning bed after you’ve applied sunless tanning lotion. Of course, researchers needed to conduct a survey to confirm this, and while the results aren’t earth shattering the discussion around it is pretty interesting. Apparently some doctors are hesitant to promote self-tanner as a method of reducing skin cancer, not because it’s dangerous but because they feel that ideally women shouldn’t want to change their skin color.
Reuters reports that a survey of 415 adult women who live on or near the Emory University campus found that 70 percent had tanned in the sun in the past year, about 50 percent had applied sunless tanning products, and 25 percent used tanning beds. Though women who gave themselves a bottle tan are more likely than other women to use other methods too, 40 percent said that the products made them intentionally decrease their time sitting out in the sun or in tanning beds.
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