European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 3, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tan accelerators in dispute by Deborah Blumenthal new York times an accelerators inc newest cosmetics for sunning Are intended to provide the maximum Tan with minimum exposure. For Winter travellers who Are planning Short vacations in the Sun the products sound Ideal but some dermatologists Are dubious. L a Good  said or. Norman Levine an associate professor and the chief of dermatology at the University of Arizona. But it does t scorn to  Tan accelerators have to be used on at least three consecutive Days before exposure to the Sun. Some Aro then used outdoors in addition to a sunscreen. The products Are intended to Spur the body s production of Melanin the pigment that increases As you Tan and thus shorten the time i lakes to turn Golden Brown this assumes hot you have the kind of skin Hal tans. As Parl of choir extensive Sun Protection lines several major cosmetics companies including Avon Estee Lauder Germaine Monteil. Lancome Lancaster and Revlon sell Tan accelerators which Are also called Tan deep Eners or of Elan conditioners. In March Eslee Lauder plans to replace is Golden Sun Pra Tan accelerator with another product the overnight pre Tan accelerator the company says it is Laster and More Elf Clive. Unlike tanning Reanu that color the skin. Ian Accel of actors Are supposed to work with sunlight. They contain moisturizers As Well As protein constituents particularly Tyrosine which is necessary Tor the production of Melanin. A study published in the journal of the american Academy of  april looked at he effects of Eslee Lauder s Golden Sun pee inn accelerator and Coppertone s natural Tan accelerator. The researchers or. Christine Jaworsky or. John Louis Halz and or. Jacob w. E. Dijkstra All of the Cleveland clinic foundation in Ohio found thai despite claims by the manufacturers these product did not increase skin pigmentation in the absence of Ultra Violet Light. Nor did they enhance tanning in the presence of ultraviolet Light. But the cosmetics companies dispute the findings. Their testing was different than ours said or. John Erma Bombeck Tel Nkang Tan Clayton the senior vice pets Ideal of research Al Schering plough which makes Coppertone products. I Don t think it simulated real life conditions nearly As Well As our  he objected particularly to the Type of lamp used As a Light source in the study As Well As to the fact that the volunteers were examined after Only one exposure to Ultra Vole Light the food and drug administration is also concerned about Tan accelerators. The Agency has questioned whether the companies claims Aboul these products would classify them As drugs. Other products like sail tanning creams and Sunlan pills Are made to help you Ian without the Sun. Sell terming creams Are made with  a harmless substance thai induces superficial and some say artificial looking darkening of the skin. Sun tanning pills Are made with a color Addil Lve called Cantha Xanthine. They lend to give the skin a yellow Orange cast far from the look of a real Tan. Aside from the color problem  was never approved for use in tanning pills according to Heinz Eiermann the director of the division of cosmetics at the Fra. He said the pills now being sold sometimes in health Lood stores Are being marketed illegally in the United Stales. If these products Are used regularly. Eiermann said ii is possible they could harm the liver. Vision impairment has also been reported he said although the problem has subsided when the pills Are discontinued. Sun tanning Parlours in the United slates have coma under the scrutiny at the Federal Trade commission. Tho commission recently charged Sun industries of Jonesboro. Ark., with making false claims Aboul the safely of its tanning devices. A proposed consent agreement issued in december subject to Public comment now prevents the company from saying that its tanning system won t damage the skin or cause skin cancer that its devices can be used safety without Eye pre Lection or that the company has reliable evidence for its claims. The Best route to Sale sunning is Wilh the help of a Strong sunscreen with a Sun Prol Clion Factor of 15 or higher. A Prol Clion Factor of that strength Means that it takes 15 limes longer to get the degree of redness you would gel in one hour without Prol Clion. It should be used daily whether one is vacationing on a warm tropical Island or at a Winter resort. Several companies have climbed farther up the Protection ladder the most Polant sunblock so far is Elizabeth Ardan s sunblock Cream 34. In addition to sunscreens Lor the entire body there Are products Lor just the lips eyes ears end nose. Sun products Lor the hair not Only help to prevent dryness but also prevent changes in hair that has been coloured. Creams lotions and other products that coat the hair Are preferable to Sun Protection shampoos which Are rinsed out. On the horizon is a tanning product Iron France that is being studied in the United slates. Ii contains Psora Len a Plant derivative used to treat psoriasis. The idea is that you apply this to your skin you go out in the Sun and you get very dark end thai dark Tan protects you against subsequent Sun exposure said Levine who has been involved in the testing. A 7b-Yearold woman named Marshall from Oak Ridge Tenn. Wrote to ask. Is the stale of Utah still there j never hear it mentioned in the weather reports. I listen and i worry. Last fall in Oak Ridge the crickets were strange. They made themselves at Home watching to and hopping about. They did t chirp Creek Chip or whatever that noise is when they rub this and thai together. Instead they Tot you approach them and then jumped straight to the Selling Ker Boom. There were also Moths Hal were disruptive stomping around in my hair when i tried to Road in bed. They were a warning of a horrendous we new. Don t they measure the length of caterpillars hair or fuzz seems like i be heard of turning Over rocks but 1 Don t remember  Marshall is a prime example of. Ing Naljie Juls infatuation with the weather. It s the one thing that links the 50 states together in a Chain of  one another. It s Ali we Over talk about. I heard a woman say the other night she knew it was going to be a severe Winter because she had to shave her legs twice As often. Another woman observed she could always Tell How cold it was outside by the number of limes a dog has to be let Oul. Multiplied by three and divided by the number of kids in the bathroom. The hostess said she had been tracking a bad storm system set to move into Maine Over the weekend. Aie you going to Maine i asked. I Don t even know anyone in  she said. It s incredible when you think about our preoccupation Wilh the elements. We get Inlo a cob. The first thing we talk about is the weather. We Call family Long distance. Al a Buck Twenty five per minute we ask what s the weather like we write a letter. The first Page is the weather report. Every Day i open my newspaper arid Tead what the weather is it Triy Hometown. I have a lived Here in 16 years. Every night most of us Are riveted by the news of cold fronts High and Low pressure areas and air masses irom Canada causing Snow Al the 4,000-fool Elevation even though most of us Don t speak Weathe iese. I thought & Chinook wind was a Guy who told Duck jokes at the bar. And Yel we All cling together during the Good weather and the bad. When Florida storms cause a Power outage we All Rush to our phones to see h people Are All right. Ii a cow so much a scratches in la., we All Brace Lor a quake. Through heat Waves Brown outs mud slides tornadoes twisters Hurricane and blizzards we All care. Incidentally Marshall i called Salt Lake City Utah. It s still there. It has a High of 38 and a Low of z2 under sunny skies. Ski conditions Are excellent. Tvs in attributed to the number of Deer who nibbled on lawns this year. A i to a hum to Mil Simon Page 16 the stars and stripes wednesday. February 3,19bb