COSMETOLOGY NEWS-Hold That Spray-on Tan!
After news about the dangers of indoor tanning, health and safety issues are also being released with spray on tan products. Medical experts has tested different products and discovered that it can be a potential cause of genetic changes and DNA damage.
Getting a tan these days has gotten a bit more difficult it seems. Hot on the heels of well-publicized studies on the dangers of indoor tanning to health and safety, comes news that the hitherto hot alternative to getting that bronzed look, spray-on tan, is just as bad.
The news might impact business in salons offering spray-on tanning, but won’t make a ding on most—not yet anyway. For these businesses the strategy is watchful waiting. And salon professionals with a cosmetology continuing education course credit can breathe a sigh of relief for now.
Medical experts in dermatology, toxicology, and pulmonary medicine have come to the conclusion after reviewing the literature on dihydroxyacetone (DHA), the principal ingredient in "spray-on" tan, that it can potentially cause genetic changes and DNA damage.
The medical experts, according to an article for news.yahoo.com, constituted a review panel put together by ABC News to review 10 the most-current publicly available scientific studies on DHA.
"The reason I'm concerned is the deposition of the tanning agents into the lungs could really facilitate or aid systemic absorption—that is, getting into the bloodstream," Dr. Rey Panettieri told news.yahoo.com. Dr. Panettieri is a toxicologist and lung specialist at the University of Pennsylvania's Perelman School of Medicine. "These compounds in some cells could actually promote the development of cancers or malignancies."
However, like all the experts ABC News consulted, Panettieri noted that the available scientific literature is limited and more studies should be conducted to arrive at a more substantive understanding of the health-and-safety threat.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA), for its part, warns consumers on its website: "The use of DHA in 'tanning' booths as an all-over spray has not been approved by the FDA, since safety data to support this use has not been submitted to the agency for review and evaluation."
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