Everyone enjoys a wonderful summer glow, you feel great and look amazing too, however did you know there are actually health benefits to getting adequate sun exposure on your skin? For years, we have heard about the hazards associated with UV light and how it causes skin cancer and all the warnings you have heard are true; however in moderation a few minutes in the sun each day will provide the best source of Vitamin D!

The problem I found is that I am a bit of a cave dweller in the summer time and it is simply difficult to get an adequate amount of sun, which means my source of Vitamin D is very limited. I found I could take a supplement but in order to be safe it would require having blood drawn and lab work done to be sure, I was getting the right amount.

A better way altogether is to get the benefits of the sun from an indoor tanning bed. Recently a close friend of mine could not stop raving about her experience with tanning at the local gym. I have to admit I was a bit jealous when I seen her golden tan in the depths of a cold mid west winter! With much excitement I decided to head down to the gym for what I thought would be safe tanning beds. Until I realized that, too many people use these indoor tanning services everyday and they are scantily clad if dressed at all!

Dejectedly I returned home because there simply was no guarantee that the gym was keeping the beds sanitized. Who wants to have a fabulous tan, great vitamin D levels and a skin infection? Not me I assure you!

Thankfully, I came across the answer to the safe tanning bed one day. The New Vitality Tanning bed from Mercola was a bed I could set up in my own home and use at my convenience. Not only could I be sure of the cleanliness of my indoor tanning bed I discovered that all tanning beds are not created equal.

New Vitality offers a safe tanning bed with some bonuses. Bonus number one of course is the fact that the unit will plug into nearly any outlet in your home. Many home indoor tanning beds have to have special outlets. Perhaps the best thing about my tanning bed is the fact that I get three types of light therapy in one simple tanning session.

1- UVA rays are what you get from the sun’s rays that stimulate Vitamin D production in the body, the New Vitality indoor tanning bed provides these artificially.

2- Infrared or radiant heat can reach deeper within the body to produce cell regeneration, protein synthesis and raise your white cell count! Infrared technology has been used for many years to heal minor aches, pains and stimulate blood flow.

3- Finally, this safe tanning bed offers something that only beds at the top of the food chain offer, red light. This third type of light stimulates cells to produce collagen, elastin and enzymes that support the skin. The result of all this in one handy package? I have a nice glow, feel healthy and no longer suffer from minor aches and pains!

Whether we like it or not we are all going to age, many times the first organ to show aging is the skin. That is probably why the skin care industry is a 50 billion dollar per year enterprise, and when you are talking about dealing with fine lines and wrinkles you only have a couple of choices, skin care products or cosmetic procedures.

Face Lifts

One popular way to reduce the appearance of fine line and wrinkles that I considered was a face-lift. A close friend of mine had hers done and she looked amazing afterwards! With a few visits to her cosmetic surgeon, my friend had lifted years from her appearance. I was excited, finally a way to look younger and feel good about myself. There only was tiny problem, the cost! It can cost anywhere from $6,000 to $12,000! Needless to say without robbing the kid’s college fund this just was not an option.

Skin Care Products

Next came the search to find healthy skin care products, with healthy being the key word. You see finding natural anti aging products may sound easy enough but unbelievably many of these products contain harmful chemicals. Unfortunately, too many cosmetic skin creams contain materials that are harmful to your health.

The skin is the single largest organ and it is quite porous which means that anything you place on your skin has direct access to your blood stream. Petroleum, paraffin, toluene, and dioxane are just a few of the harmful substances you will find in several popular skin care products.

Healthy Skin Products

All of this led me to really dig deep to find healthy skin care products. What I found was natural anti aging skin care products that are made of products that you could actually eat if you needed to! What better thing to put on your skin then something you could ingest? If something could be food for the body, it is only natural that it would be good for your skin.

The Mercola line offers you natural products made completely of organic ingredients. Organic products must meet strict USDA guidelines to be certified organic and this process is long and involved, but it ensures that you are getting products free from pesticides and other materials that may be harmful to your health.

Included in the ingredients for Mercola’s products are lavender oil, sweet orange oil, calendula and calming chamomile. When I discovered these products I was overjoyed, finally here were natural anti aging skin care products that are actually good for the body! The only question that remained was do these healthy skin products actually work?

What I discovered was healthy youthful skin that is supple and soft to the touch. No longer do I struggle with dry or blemished skin and I can feel good that the products I am putting on my skin are not going to cause cancer or some other horrid disease later in life!