{"id":484,"date":"2025-10-22T14:01:19","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T14:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.highly-healthy.com\/?p=484"},"modified":"2025-10-22T14:01:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T14:01:19","slug":"is-it-wise-to-pre-tan-your-skin-before-going-on-a-holiday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.highly-healthy.net\/is-it-wise-to-pre-tan-your-skin-before-going-on-a-holiday\/","title":{"rendered":"Is it wise to pre-tan your skin before going on a holiday?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>It seems to be the ideal way to ensure that you do not have to wear sunscreen all day long while on holiday: Just hit the tanning bed a few times before you go.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tanned skin is already prepared for exposure to the sun, so you don&#8217;t burn so quickly. You save on suntan lotion, and you also don&#8217;t run the risk of being burnt&nbsp;like a lobster after a day of sunbathing. Right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It sounds too good to be true, and unfortunately, that is indeed the case. Anyone who tans via a sunbed is not any more protected against the sun&#8217;s rays than someone who does not tan. That is&nbsp;because the UV radiation&nbsp;from the tanning bed will cause you to tan, but it will not cause your upper skin layer to become thicker. The latter does happen with radiation from the sun.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How does that work exactly? Sunlight contains UV-A and UV-B radiation. The first provides that beautiful tan coloring, but the B variant is needed to make the top layer of your skin thicker. The radiation from a tanning bed\u00a0mainly consists of UV-A rays.\u00a0The result is a tan but your skin stays thin. Moreover, as you get older, this can also lead to an increase in wrinkles, so it&#8217;s probably best to\u00a0just skip\u00a0the sunbed\u00a0entirely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A sunbed is unfortunately&nbsp;not good preparation&nbsp;for a holiday in the sun. Put those bottles of sunscreen into the suitcase and prepare to lotion up!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems to be the ideal way to ensure that you do not have to wear sunscreen all day long while on holiday: Just hit the tanning bed a few times before you go. Tanned skin is already prepared for exposure to the sun, so you don&#8217;t burn so quickly. You save on suntan lotion, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":485,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mentally"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highly-healthy.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highly-healthy.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highly-healthy.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highly-healthy.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highly-healthy.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.highly-healthy.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3456,"href":"https:\/\/www.highly-healthy.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions\/3456"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highly-healthy.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highly-healthy.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highly-healthy.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highly-healthy.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}