News Archive for February, 2010

If the average young woman spends her 20s focused on dates, fashion and maybe even her tan, sisters Kathy Litton and Kellie Damphousse were anything but average.

When they were 20-somethings, they were focused on building their tanning business and …

In my other life, I teach high school English, and every year around mid-January, the girls start sliding into their desks, red-faced and ashamed, taunted by the grins of their classmates. You might think they were blushing at first glance, …

The indoor tanning community has successfully fought off Teenage “Tan Ban” proposals in three states this winter, with under-18 ban proposals in New Hampshire, Washington and South Dakota all going down in the past few weeks.…

A majority of indoor tanning facilities say their client base is getting older, a SmartTan.com survey conducted in February revealed. According to the survey, 58 percent of salons believe the average age of their tanning clients increased in the past …

A tanning industry veteran in Omaha was published in the Omaha World-Herald on Wednesday, responding to a dermatology-inspired anti-tan article in the same newspaper just a week ago, Tracie Cunningham, executive vice president of Ashley Lynn’s Tanning, an Omaha-based chain, …

A pro-sunlight column written by a financial services writer earlier this year keeps popping up in new publications.…

“Telling people to wear chemical sunscreen on a cloudy day is misbranding a product whose only approved use is to prevent sunburn. Yet the cosmetic dermatology industry — whose advocacy groups accept millions of dollars directly from the manufacturers of …

A majority of indoor tanning businesses say they expect their tanning client traffic to be up in 2010 as compared to 2009, according to a SmartTan.com poll conducted in early February.…