Sunless Tanning Gains Popularity With Teens
Studies Suggest Sunless Tanning Products Have Role to Play in Cancer Prevention Strategy
Survey of Teen Tanning Habits continued...
She tells WebMD that efforts to promote sunless tanning for skin cancer prevention may be premature.
“Dermatologists may feel differently, but I believe it is too soon to do this,” she says. “We don’t really know enough about how people are using these products.”
The two studies appear in the September issue of the Archives of Dermatology.
In an editorial accompanying the studies, Northwestern University professor of clinical dermatology and Archives editor June K. Robinson, MD, wrote that sunless tanning products may have the most impact on the habits of event tanners, such as teenage girls who want a bronzed glow for the prom.
The message may resonate less with habitual tanners who tan to improve their mood or reduce stress, she tells WebMD.
“It would be important to offer these people alternatives to tanning,” she says.
