The sunbed is a means for those people living in cooler, less sunny, regions to achieve a healthy looking sun tan at any time of the year in the comfort of their own homes. Although sunbeds have been available in one form or another for almost twenty five years, they have become more popular in the last decade.
The sunbed utilises ultra violet fluorescent lighting tubes to imitate the ultra violet tanning rays found in natural sunlight. The lamps emit a strong ultra violet light, at least as strong as that of the sun. Obviously too long an exposure would result in severe burning of the skin, for this reason all tanning beds are fitted with a countdown timer, should the user fall asleep they are safe from over exposure, after the elapsed time set on the timer the lamps will automatically cut off.
