ETS Tanning Bed Blog

Affordable beauty treatments that work are in high consumer demand today given the current economy and teeth whitening tops the list of treatments people want from their local salon or spa. That’s why we’re now a national distributor of the Whiter Image line of commercial and consumer teeth-whitening products.

Commercially, we now offer salon owners Whiter Image’s Chair-Side Premium Whitening System. It’s a sleek and compact system where a user buys a kit of mouth trays that are prefilled with advanced whitening past, insert a tray and sit beneath a special LED light that speeds up the paste and whitens teeth significantly in just one 15-minute session.

For personal use, we now offer Whiter Image’s TOGO teeth-whitening pen and the Chic-Flic TOGO teeth-whitening pen, which also includes a lip shine and plumper tip.

Portland Tribune reporter Peter Korn's article, "Prescription: More Sun; Research suggests that a lack of sunlight could be tied to variety of illnesses:" ... If Gene Stubbs, a respected associate professor emeritus of psychiatry and pediatrics at Oregon Health & Science University who has turned into a researcher in his retirement, is right about the autism/Vitamin D link, he and a growing legion of scientists across the country might also be right about their larger theory – that lack of sun exposure and Vitamin D explains Oregon’s high rates of depression, multiple sclerosis, bone disease, cancers and dozens of other maladies, including colds and flu. ...

 http://www.portlandtribune.com/news/story_2nd.php?story_id=128035439115067600

Healthy women with regular UVB exposure from tanning beds have significantly greater vitamin D status and lower serum osteocalcin concentrations than those without is the conclusion of a study out of the University of Missouri at Columbia.

The following is a July member update from the Indoor Tanning Association. 

As you know from our previous alerts, the Internal Revenue Service formally published the final and temporary regulations on June 15. The IRS issued these regulations as “temporary” to provide guidance to users and providers of indoor tanning services. The text of the temporary regulations also serves as the text of the “proposed” regulations.

Before these regulations are final, the IRS is required to receive and respond to public comment. The comments are due by September 13. The ITA will submit comments on behalf of the industry. In addition, our tax counsel and the Board of Directors believe it is important for businesses affected by the regulations to weigh in with the IRS.

Here is an excellent article that John Cannell at the Vitamin D Council recently shared with me. The article explores why governments are not acting on vitamin D and are not likely to act anytime soon.

Why governments are selling Vitamin D short: By Sam Apple, Financial Times.com.

... Reinhold Vieth is frustrated. A thin, bald professor at the University of Toronto’s Department of Laboratory Medicine and Patho-biology, Vieth is among the most knowledgeable people in the world on the subject of vitamin D. He began studying it as a graduate student in 1974 and hasn’t changed his focus since. “I stick with vitamin D and follow it where it goes,” he says.

We at ETS Tan have the privilege of working with some great people every day. Lisa Brooking is certainly no exception.

Lisa worked for 17 years in retail before she decided to open a tanning salon. Within five years of first opening her doors, Lisa opened eight new tanning salons in southern Indiana. Today, True Colors Tanning salons welcome customers in Jeffersonville, New Albany, Sellersburg, Georgetown, Scottsburg, Floyds Knobs, Charlestown, Madison and Prospect, Ky.

Dr. Frank Lipman writes on The Huffington Post today, ... "For the last 30 years or so, doctors (dermatologists in particular), health officials, beauty experts and many product companies have been demonizing the sun. They've told us to avoid it because without sunscreen, exposure to the sun's rays will damage skin and cause cancer. But this oversimplification distorts the facts. In the past few years, numerous studies have shown that optimizing your vitamin D levels may actually help prevent as many as 16 different types of cancer including pancreatic, lung, breast, ovarian, prostate and colon cancers. And the best way to optimize Vitamin D levels is through safe, smart and limited sunscreen-free exposure to the sun."

Read Lipman's entire article, "Vitamin D health -- why you shouldn't shun the sun," online at the Huffington Post.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-frank-lipman/vitamin-d-health-why-you_b_619558.html