UV Lights - Good or Bad

Below you will find a CND Blog post regarding UV Lights. We wanted to re-post it to help stop the madness and inform the consumer that getting Cancer form a UV Light is farfetched. The source section also includes an additional article providing the actual study for you to make a sound judgment for yourself.

Safety First: 10 Facts about CND Shellac UV Nail Lamps

CND Shellac, one of the most common questions is about the health risks associated with the use of UV lamps. To clear up confusion, here are 10 facts about UV lamps from several experts:

• According to Dr. Robert M. Sayre, Ph.D., of Rapid Precision Testing Laboratories one of the creators of the SPF rating system: “UV Nail Lamps are safer than natural sunlight or sunlamps.”
• Dr. David Valia, Director of Research and Development for CND, compares the exposure from a UV lamp to that of indoor fluorescent lighting. He explains, “The amount of energy from a UV lamp during a nail service would be roughly equivalent to the amount of UV exposure one would experience during a typical day of exposure in indoor fluorescent lighting.”
• According to Dr. Sayre: “People who are indoors have little to no skin risk due to long term exposure to fluorescent lighting. People who sunbathe or work outdoors have real risks of excessive UV exposure, the cause of sunburn and skin cancer.”
• “The CND UV Nail Lamp bulb emits almost exclusively (more than 99%) UVA-1, the safest part of the ultraviolet spectrum,” says Dr. Sayre.
• The exposure from a bi-weekly UV manicure is equivalent to “an extra 1-2 minutes in daylight each day between salon visits,” says Doug Schoon, CND’s Chief Scientific Advisor and author of Nail Structure and Product Chemistry.
• Although hands are the most exposed, they’re also the least susceptible to UV sensitivity. According to Dr. Sayre, “It would take 6 – 10x more exposure to your hands to produce mild sunburn than it would to produce a burn on your face, abdomen or back. UV Nail Lamps are used on one of the least susceptible parts of your body.”
• Hands get more UV exposure holding the steering wheel of a car or talking on a cell phone outside than they do from the use of UV nail lamps.
• UV nail lamps have been on the market for over 30 years and there have been no proven reports linking them to premature aging or skin cancer.
• Just like you put sunscreen on your face, we recommend putting sunscreen on your hands throughout the day, especially after washing them.

"Safety First: 10 Facts about CND Shellac UV Nail Lamps." CND Blog. CND, 27 Aug 2012. Web. Web. 11 Mar. 2013. <http://www.cnd.com/blog/cnd-shellac/2012/08/safety-first-10-facts-about-cnd-shellac-uv-nail-lamps/>.

Klein, Rachel S., Robert M. Sayre, John C. Dowdy, and Victoria P. Werth. "The risk of ultraviolet radiation exposure from indoor lamps in lupus erythematosus." US National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health . US National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health , 08 Feb 2009. Web. 11 Mar 2013. <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2829662/>.

Schoon, Doug, Paul Bryson, and Jim McConnell. "Do UV Nail Lamps Emit Unsafe Levels of Ultraviolet Light?." Schoon Scientific. SchoonScientific.com. Web. 12 Mar 2013.