Tanning Salon Orals

Image, in today’s world is getting more and more important, especially to women who pride themselves on looking good. Australia in particular, the people love the beaches, not only are they beautiful but they give reason to having that “amazing”, longed for tanned skin that has been a fad for many generations in this nation. In the colder season there is no need to fret because a substitute to maintaining your tan is just a desired drive away; this is where my issue lays, SOLARIUMS!

I am sure most or even all of you by now have knowledge of what a solarium is but for those of you who don’t, a solarium is a tanning machine that artificially uses high levels of UV radiation to suppye a tan to the person, these high levels of radiation emit much higher concentrations than that of a midday sun in the summer. SCARY?! That’s only the process of the damage. Imagine waking up to this immaculate tan for years not ever thinking that the Melanoma time bomb could go off at any time and when it does eventually go off you are left with permanent loss of sight, burning could result, ageing of skin and fighting for your life at the age of 26. Sound familiar?! This is what the young woman, Clare Oliver, had to go through.

Just like a lot of young people Clare had the image of attaining beauty by a tan and that solariums were a harmless way of that. This tragic way of awareness to Clare didn’t leave her betrayed or bitter by the situation, it made her accepting and in her remaining time she set out to make known of the dangers of these solariums and left Australia with Melanoma awareness that has helped prompt the Government’s focus on the serious health issue.

Although there is a standard that these salons have in place the scary thing is most of them are not operated under this. Standards include:

• Customer must be over 18 years of age

• Customers under 18 must have parent consent

• Fair people who burn easily are not permitted to tan

• Unsupervised sunbeds are illegal

• Warning notices must be displayed

• Clients must sign a consent form

In the crackdown by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC), on the supplier of sun beds, Ergoline (Aust) Pty Ltd and the Australian Indoor Tanning Association,