Articles - Sun is Life

ASA Statement On “Tan Tax” Repeal 0
- Equipment & Technology
- July 31, 2025
On behalf of 6,000 professional sunbed centers across the country, with more than 70% of these businesses being women-owned small businesses, the American Suntanning Association thanks Congress for its rightful consideration of both HR1940 and S1865, both calling for repeal of the unfair and poorly administered Tan Tax. This stand-alone issue is a main-street, non-partisan
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Salon Profitability Starts Here: Operating Cost Calculator 0
- Business Operations
- July 23, 2025
Salon Profitability Starts Here: Operating Cost Calculator The fastest way to protect your profits is to fully understand your true operating costs—and electricity is one of your largest ongoing expenses. This simple, dollar-based calculator gives salon owners and franchisees an easy way to estimate power costs and confidently build pricing models that maintain margins even
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Filtered Sunlight: The $40 Billion Bottled Water Lesson for Tanning Salons 0
- Equipment & Technology
- July 23, 2025
In recent years, conversations around the benefits of sunlight have resurfaced in both wellness circles and mainstream media. As more people rediscover the connection between light exposure and well-being, tanning salon owners have a unique opportunity to reframe how customers think about indoor tanning — not as a replacement for sunshine, but as filtered sunshine.
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UV Tanning And Tooth Whitener: What Attendants Should Know 0
- Skincare
- July 23, 2025
As a tanning professional, it’s important to know how your accessories and add-ons interact with your technology. Everything from the lotion you sell to the quality of your tanning mitts can make a difference in the outcome of your clients’ tanning experience. I am the proud founder of Twilight Teeth, the original UV-reactive tanning-friendly
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Customers For Life 0
- Equipment & Technology
- July 23, 2025
As leaders, we tend to think in terms of perfection. We typically aim to design systems that help us avoid errors and mistakes. That’s especially true in engineering and science-based disciplines like brain and rocket science–areas you can’t afford to misstep. But you and your team will likely make mistakes when it comes to servicing
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“Too Much of a Good Thing”0
- Equipment & Technology
- July 23, 2025
In the wellness and spa industry, light therapy is often marketed as a cure-all, an easy and noninvasive solution to everything from wrinkles and joint pain to energy slumps and injury recovery. But like many things in life, more is not always better, and not everyone is a candidate for this modality. While photobiomodulation (PBM)
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