Sunbathing during the coronavirus pandemic

In today's article, we'll try to help and advise you on how to face reality in these difficult times, where the rise in coronavirus cases continues. How can you continue to run your tanning salon safely and effectively, and how to communicate with clients while your tanning salon is closed? In this short guide, you'll find some tips and tricks that will surely inspire you and help you take the right steps.

The most important thing is to maintain cleanliness and proper hygiene. We're constantly being told to wash our hands frequently with soap and water, avoid large crowds, and maintain appropriate social distancing during meetings. Many of your clients are undoubtedly apprehensive about going to a tanning salon. This is natural. However, for added safety, we can implement strict measures and notify clients. So how can we protect both clients and employees?

Information for customers:

1. People with symptoms of flu, cold, runny nose, cough, fever and muscle pain should stay at home and postpone their visit to the solarium until another date.
2. Before using the equipment and other solarium supplies, the client should disinfect their hands and wash them with soap and water or antibacterial gel.
3. After visiting the solarium, you should also disinfect your hands.
4. The client should avoid close contact with other people, including solarium staff – keep a distance of at least 1 meter

Information for employees:

1. Tanning equipment should be disinfected before and after each client.
2. The solarium should have disinfectant or antibacterial gel available, which the client can use before using the solarium, but also after the visit.
3. Customers must be provided with appropriate conditions and the necessary elements to maintain hygiene.
4. It is worth providing customers with the option of cashless payments.
5. A transparent panel should be installed in the solarium to separate the seller from the customer.
6. For customers interested in purchasing cosmetics, it is worth offering single-use cosmetics – sachets instead of tubes.
7. All objects, i.e. doors, doorknobs, handles, tables, chairs, shelves, should be disinfected before and after each customer's visit.
8. All frequently used areas, such as toilets and common areas, should be regularly and thoroughly disinfected.
9. Tanning salon staff must be 100% healthy and not exhibit any symptoms of a cold. If so, they should stay home.

Tanning salon staff should also convey important information about hygiene and the precautions implemented in the salon in a simple, calm, and understandable manner to their clients. It's a good idea to post a short video and photos on social media profiles showing how the tanning salon is prepared and secured. Before entering the tanning salon, post a sign explaining the steps to take before using the tanning bed. This information can also be posted on social media profiles so everyone can prepare for their visit. You can follow our advice for clients mentioned above, or you can create your own, shorter but clear instructions – above all, wash your hands and keep your distance. To help clients stay calm, you can suggest disinfecting the tanning bed just before tanning.

For disinfecting and cleaning tanning beds and tanning booths, as well as other surfaces made of acrylic glass, appliances, walls, floors, doors, countertops, and small appliances, we recommend our Solar Guard Mega Power liquid. You can read more about its properties in this article: https://www.onyxtan.pl/blogs/blog/solar-guard-mega-power-plyn-do-dezynfekcji-1 .

By following these guidelines, both employees and customers will feel safe. Maintaining proper hygiene is paramount right now, and common sense, responsibility, and shared strength will surely help us get through this difficult time.

As your clients spend more time at home, some have had to cancel their vacations, and the weather is unfortunately unfavorable, a healthy dose of vitamin D during a few minutes in a comfortable and clean tanning bed will surely sweeten the difficult moments. It's worth educating them about the benefits of tanning. So, what are the benefits of tanning?

1. It enhances your appearance . Sun-kissed skin is associated with exoticism and originality, which can slightly transform and enhance your image. A tan also reduces the appearance of wrinkles, blemishes, and other imperfections, making your skin appear smoother. Moreover, if you feel better with a tan, it not only improves your appearance but also boosts your self-confidence!
2. Accentuates the figure's strengths . A tan visually enhances the figure: it highlights its assets, slims the skin, and highlights the outline of muscles.
3. It improves mood. During this difficult time, it's important to take care of your well-being. Sunbathing stimulates the glands responsible for the production of hormones such as serotonin and methionine, which affect well-being. The low mood typical of autumn and winter is due to the reduced amount of sunlight, which leads to a reduction in the production of certain hormones.

If customers who visit your tanning salons are always wondering which cosmetics to choose, now is the perfect time to prepare a short guide on this topic. Customers planning a visit to a tanning bed should make sure to properly prepare their skin for artificial tanning. Indoor tanning products will deepen their tan, provide delightful nourishment, and protect against harmful factors, while certain ingredients will soothe and deeply moisturize the skin. In a tanning bed, your skin is subjected to harsher conditions than on the beach, so the product you choose must provide maximum protection and properly care for your skin. The Onyx store offers a wide selection of specialized tanning products, from white bronzers to black bronzers, accelerators, bronzing intensifiers, and even tingle-effect lotions. More information on which cosmetics to use in a tanning bed can be found HERE ( https://www.onyxtan.pl/blogs/blog/jakich-kosmetykow-uzywac-w-solarium ).

It's worth educating your clients. If, unfortunately, you can't use a tanning bed because your salon is closed, stay in touch with your clients. On Facebook or Instagram, you can post information about tanning beds, contraindications to tanning beds, interesting photos and graphics, and even posts that will help you choose cosmetics. Our articles are packed with inspiration that will help you build relationships with your clients, but online! This way, clients will definitely remember you, and after the crisis, they'll be happy to come back to you to catch up on their tan.

It's important not to spread fake news. There's no confirmed evidence that UV lamps used in tanning beds eliminate the virus. You can inform your clients about this via social media, while also assuring them of the enhanced safety standards we mentioned above. Clients will be grateful for your honesty and truthful information. This will help you gain their trust.

Take care of your customers, provide them with reliable information and essential knowledge, and they will surely come back to you when the crisis is over.