Will a Home Tanning Bed Offer the Same Golden Tan as a Tanning Salon?

There are 3 big differences between a domestic tanning bed and a commercial bed - pricing, durability and speed. But, the main reason that so many people are opting to buy their own tanning bed is that they can achieve a golden glow in their own time, and in the comfort of their own homes.

For millions of people worldwide, visiting a tanning salon is a frequent and costly exercise. Furthermore, the entire time that it takes to travel to and from a tanning solarium, then getting undressed and then redressed, can easily eat into your day. This makes a trip to a tanning salon an exercise that really needs to be planned way ahead of time. And in a lot of cases, a tanning salon will never have any timeslot when you want it, because most people will want to visit at the most popular times of the day, like lunch time on work days.

The factors are why people have begun to seek alternatives to tanning salons. People just want practicality - they don't want to be scheduling their whole week around a few trips to the tanning solarium. Those that want a consistent tan are now starting to get the picture that if there was a tanning alternate choice that could be performed at home, they would have lots more spare time in their schedules.

Trying to save time is just one reason for seeking an alternative - another reason is the cost of tanning salons. The going rate for a tanning salon visit is around $15 to $30. If you start to compute the cost of each tanning salon session, and then factor in the preparation time to get there, to disrobe, experience your tanning session, then redress and get back home or to work, there is definitely a lot of unproductive time and effort. And as the old saying goes, 'time is money'.

Privacy is yet another reason that people will opt to buy their own tanning bed for use at home. For best tanning results it is quite obvious that you will need to be either naked, or nearly naked. Most people will avoid derobing at a tanning solarium because of our native tendency for personal privacy. So with a home tanning solution, you get the best of both worlds... an all-over golden tan, and the freedom to do it on your time, and with as little or as much clothing as you elect.

But we do need to keep in mind the cost of the at-home alternate choice, and we also need to have regard for the quality of the machinery. It is easy to assume that having your own tanning bed at home is going to be the perfect solution now that we have firmly established that it will be so far more convenient, and that we won't be wasting so much time and money traveling to and from our local tanning salon. Fact is, home tanning beds are not cheap by any stretch of the imagination. You need to make sure that such an investment is for the long term.

The home tanning bed is a lot lower in price than the commercial tanning bed because it is constructed in a more economical manner. The general at-home tanning bed would be used once a day, maybe twice per day, whereas in a salon the average bed may be used over 20 times per day. It is like comparing a home-handyman chainsaw and a professional chainsaw. We all know which one costs less, and we all know which one is suited to 8-10 hours usage a day. 

A home tanning bed will naturally be less submissive to the rigors of a commercial tanning bed, but they are certainly capable of providing a golden tan - completely the same as you would get from a tanning solarium. Commercial tanning beds use a very high-tech lamp system, and so do most domestic ones, meaning that the tanning results will be much the same.

But commercial tanning beds are far more well-constructed and efficient. Like we said above, the average bed in a tanning solarium could be used more than 20 times per day, so the architecture of commercial tanning beds needs to be synonymous with such high usage. Furthermore, a commercial bed will most likely have far more lamps in it than a domestic tanning bed. Domestic tanning beds typically have somewhere around 16 lamps, where a commercial bed will have around 40. The end result is that a commercial bed does it's job a lot quick than the domestic alternative. 

Home tanning is a massive market, and tanning beds/booths are finding their way into more and more homes across the USA. From as little as $50-$60 per month, you can get yourself a top-quality full size home tanning bed - that's less costly than 2 visits to most local tanning salons - and you can use yours in the comfort and convenience of your own home.