Spray tans are also bad for your health!

[NachoProblem]

abcnews.go.com/Health/safety-popular-spray-tans-question-protected/story?id=16542918#.T9m-AStYu6u

I mean, I feel like anything that permanently dyes your skin couldn't be good for you. Especially if you eat/aspirate it. I hate spray tans, the few times I've done it I looked ridiculous, so this doesn't really affect me. But what does everything think? Anyone rethinking getting spray tanned?

[tarheels]

I'm willing to bet this is like so many other things: the amounts tested in the lab would amount to drinking a gallon of it. I don't have time to read all five pages and just read the first, so they could have said how much was in the new lab results. I think employees applying it should be worried and should definitely wear protective gear for all the exposure they get, but for the few times a year I get it done, I'm not worried. Everything will kill you, so good grief, you have to make decisions for yourself sometimes about what you're ok with or you'll end up crazy and living in a hut in the woods trying to escape everything.

[pixy0stix]

Jun 14, 2012 7:23:54 GMT -5 tarheels said:

Everything will kill you, so good grief, you have to make decisions for yourself sometimes about what you're ok with or you'll end up crazy and living in a hut in the woods trying to escape everything.

^o) There's degrees to which everything will kill you. DHA can genetically modify cells. The use of DHA in the spray tan booths is going against FDA regulations. It was never intended to be inhaled, which is the main point of the article. The testing for inhalation just hasn't been done.

Thanks for the article, OP! I've always wondered if the spray tan particulates were ok to inhale or not.

[futurepivko]

Everything seems to be bad for you now. I saw something on a tv show saying that working out can cause cancer. Wtf.

[315bride]

I saw this report. ABC News has been doing a lot of shock reports like this. I think it's actually kind of wrong that they are scaring people based on very little information that is somewhat inconclusive. One lab report is not definitive and people need to chill out. It "may" cause health problems doesn't mean it will.

Not that I am into spray tanning anyway; I think it makes people look like Oompa Loompas. Or Snooky.

[fashionx]

I can't do spray tans because of this inhalation issue. I must be more sensitive than the average person, but I have literally passed out while getting a spray tan.

When I worked as a receptionist for a salon a few years ago, I was spray tanned twice, before we were officially open, as part of the training for the staff who would be performing the service. The first time I was ok, but was getting over a cold, and started feeling extremely light headed after when I was getting dressed. The next time, I was in the middle of the salon, so it was a large open space, not even the small rooms they normally use, and I passed out halfway through. Paramedics were called but I woke up before they arrived. They checked my blood sugar and stuff like that and appeared normal. I declined going to the ER since I was feeling ok, and just went home instead.

I haven't chanced doing it again even if I were given the option of wearing a mask, though very few salons offer those anyway.

I don't know of anyone else who had such an extreme reaction, and neither did the tanning company we used. But I can see how "odorless" fumes can get to you without you realizing what is happening, even if it's not to the level I experienced.