Commercial Tanning Beds

You will find plenty of information on commercial tanning beds and equipment on this webpage and suppliers offering the very best deals on commercial tanning beds for sun bed salons.

Commercial Tanning Beds

Sun bed bulbs for business use, like in salons and spas, are a large part of the secret of that Hollywood tan. Many of the commercial salons use Wolff tanning bulbs. Wolff bulbs are really the industry standard.

You can have any shade you want with the wide choice of Wolff home tanning beds and commercial beds on the market.

There are several types of sun bed bulbs, such as deep-tanning bulbs, bronzing bulbs, facial tanners and plenty of others besides. These high-tech bulbs employ the latest technology to produce a tan evenly, and above all, safely.

Furthermore, there are different commercial sun beds and bulbs for different types of skin too. The commercial tanning industry produces different bronzing bed bulbs for dark to light skin colours. Besides that, you can have a soft tan, a golden tan, a bronze tan, or one the deepest, darkest tans you have ever seen. You can also change the tanning bed bulb between starting and finishing, as your colouration progresses, so that you can achieve any combination of quite stunning results.

Using sun beds is like having sun light in a tube. In fact, it is even better, because you can control it! Modern commercial tanning beds are made to the highest standards and are very safe.

The industry and the government have set strict rules to ensure your safety. So, if you follow the instructions supplied with the tanning equipment carefully, you can be confident that you will not be risking your health to look good.

The UV rays that tanning lamps produce are well below the proscribed safety limits to ensure you remain healthy, safe and tanned. Furthermore, there are plenty of choices available to you, ranging from UVB and UVA combinations to straight UVA. It is simply up to you.

Bulbs for commercial sun beds are ultraviolet-emitting units and serve as the main element of the various kinds of tanning salon equipment like hoods and booths. Sun bed bulbs have as their main use the enhancement of a darker skin colour, although commercial tanning beds also have a reputation for the successful treatment of eczema and psoriasis.

The depth and type of the colouration produced, depends on the spectrum of light emitted by the lamps and the vast majority of them give out more ultraviolet light than the sun does.

Practically all bulbs in commercial tanning beds use a unit called a 'ballast' to regulate power consumption. The ballast stabilizes the flow of electrical current inside the lamp and is required to make sure that the bulb uses only the exact amount of wattage that it requires in order to work properly.

There are various kinds of bulbs on the market including reflector lamps and high output bulbs. Most sun bed bulbs fall into two main categories: high pressure and low pressure types. (Within the salon industry, it is usual to refer to high pressure lamps as "bulbs" and low pressure bulbs as "lamps").

Low pressure lamps are very similar to normal fluorescent tubes, but the glass tube of low pressure tanning bulbs naturally filters out the harmful UVC ultraviolet rays. Low pressure bulbs have a useful lifespan of between 600 and 1,600 hours with 1,000 hours being the norm.

High pressure bulbs range in length from three to five inches and operate with 250 to 2,000 watt ballasts, although 400 watt high pressure tanning bulbs are the most popular in commercial tanning beds. These 400 watt high-pressure sun bed bulbs are often incorporated in the face tanning compartment.

High pressure tanning bed bulbs are usually manufactured from quartz glass and an extra, specialized coating, which is essential to filter out the lethal UVC ultraviolet rays.

High pressure bulbs for commercial tanning beds contain a small amount of mercury or argon and produce ultraviolet light in high concentration. The handling of high pressure tanning bed bulbs should be carried out with great care and never with naked hands, because even a tiny amount of oil from your hands can cause a bulb to fail prematurely or even break and the resulting spillage of mercury is potentially dangerous.

You should replace high pressure bulbs for commercial tanning beds after about 1,000 hours even though tanning bed bulbs will continue to produce light for up to 10,00 hours.