Get the latest gossip

Sunbeds increase the risk of cancer, whatever TikTok tells you | Sali Hughes on beauty

There are no health benefits to tanning beds: they don’t help you produce vitamin D and are no substitute for proper medical treatments for skin conditions

I assumed commercial sunbeds were becoming déclassé, but a new survey commissioned by tanning brand Vita Liberata for its campaign Not the Way to Glow has shown there’s still a mountain to climb. One in three of the British women surveyed used indoor tanning beds, despite 91% of that third claiming to understand the risk of exposure to UV radiation, namely: a significant increase in the chance of developing skin cancer, including melanoma – the most lethal kind. The UV medical treatment used by dermatologists on these conditions is controlled), and covering moles with a plaster or pimple patch before getting on a sunbed is as about as effective as a chocolate fireguard.

Get the Android app