Cyrano explains why hybrid tanning is essential for your salon.

As organisations look to expand services, to remain competitive, hybrid tanning offers an easy solution to further clients’ experience in-salon, whilst, also, being a fast and simple means of refreshing your services. This can also transform clients’ tanning experience for the better.

Hybrid tanning is the combination of both UV and infrared light in a tanning bed. This can be seen in images as the combination of blue and red lamps. Harnessing the power of both light spectrums provides tanners with an enhanced experience.

UV light
Traditional UV light will provide the expected results from a tanning session. This will work to help build and deepen your natural tan.

Red light
Harnessing infrared lamps in your sunbed adds an extra level of quality to the tanning session that your clients experience. By incorporating a different light spectrum, your clients may benefit in the following ways:

• Stimulate collagen and elastin production.
Collagen and elastin are essential for maintaining a youthful appearance. Increasing skin’s natural production of elastin and collagen can help to plump the skin, diminish the appearance of age spots and smooth out wrinkles.

• Combat acne
Infrared works with the skin’s haemoglobin and activates skin cells to fight acne. This also limits blood supply to the sebaceous glands, ultimately working to prevent the overproduction of oil that may result in spots. This also works to diminish the appearance of scars, which may help for a smooth, even complexion.

• Relieve certain skin conditions
Some tanners may find an improvement in skin conditions, such as psoriasis, thanks to infrared’s anti-inflammatory effect. This may be particularly useful during colder months when the sun is weaker, and vitamin D cannot be produced outdoors.

• Act as pain relief
A review in the European Journal of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine indicated infrared could reduce pain in adults with musculoskeletal disorders, whilst other studies illustrate infrared light’s ability to increase muscle mass, decrease inflammation and help relieve pain. It is also suggested this could lessen the impact of osteoporosis, and tendonitis, and provide short-term relief for rheumatoid arthritis. This also helps encourage cell regeneration, positively impacting healing times and tissue repair.

The combination of these varying light spectrums may therefore enhance the tanning experience for many clients. What’s more, infrared’s anti-ageing effect can be furthered with the incorporation of specially-designed tanning lotions, such as Australian Gold’s Hot! Hybrid. This focuses on further stimulating collagen and elastin production to enhance infrared’s beauty-boosting properties, whilst also continuing to deliver glowing tan results. Not only can this improve clients’ experience in-salon, but also allows for an additional revenue stream of purposefully-made premium lotions, for higher margins and improved customer results.

It is very simple to incorporate hybrid tanning into your salon. Simply, when changing the lamps in your sunbed, enquire about hybrid tanning lamps and the appropriate starters. These can either be relamped yourself or by our expert team of sunbed engineers, leaving your clients with a great new service to experience.

Specially-formulated lotions and hybrid tanning lamps are both available to purchase from Cyrano Ltd.