Skye Wheatley has been slammed by her followers for promoting the use of collarium sunbeds.
The former Big Brother star, 28, posted a photo of a sunbed to her Instagram story with the caption ‘found a collarium’ and tagged an Instagram page called Body Bronze.
Her followers were quick to point out the dangers of tanning beds and their link with skin cancer.
One person wrote: ‘You absolutely do not understand how skin cancer is caused. There is no level of ‘safe tan’.
‘You’re not just sharing what you do, there are many impressionable people that you are reaching.’
Skye Wheatley (pictured) has been slammed by her followers for promoting the use of collarium sunbeds
However, Skye hit back at these comments as she claimed solarium sunbeds are harmful and illegal but collarium sunbeds are not.
Posting a selfie with an exasperated look on her face, the influencer wrote: ‘Guys please understand what I used today WAS NOT A SOLARIUM HONESTLY how many times do I have to say it.
‘Take it up with whoever made it legal if it’s such a problem like why the hell would I post a solly it’s so dumb like they are illegal and dangerous I get it!’
Skye claimed solarium sunbeds are harmful and illegal but collarium sunbeds are not
Her followers were quick to point out the dangers of tanning beds and their link with skin cancer
She continued: ‘It looks like a solly but it’s not a solly IT WASN’T A SOLLY I’M NOT PROMOTING SKIN CANCER’.
In 2015, solraium sunbeds were banned for commercial use in Australia due to the risk of melanoma in its users, but they can still be bought for private use.
Body Bronze, the company that Skye promoted, doesn’t appear to have a website, just an Instagram page.
The account is private, but asks followers to DM it before following.
Instagram account Influencer Updates AU posted a screenshot that appeared to be from this Instagram account’s story.
The former Big Brother star, 28, posted a photo of a sunbed to her Instagram story with the caption ‘found a collarium’ and tagged an Instagram page called Body Bronze
Body Bronze, the company that Skye promoted, doesn’t appear to have a website, just an Instagram page
It said: ‘Just a friendly reminder that Body Bronze does not sell ‘sessions’ we sell lotion.
‘The use of the collarium is free and at your own discretion’.
Companies that are offering collarium sunbeds claim that it is the ‘safer way of tanning’ as it stimulates collagen and it provides a tan through UVA radiation without the burning effects of UVB.
However, according to The Mayo Clinic, ‘there’s no such thing as a safe tanning bed’ and Geelong Veins Skin & Laser’s dermal therapist Jorden said the irony of collarium sunbeds is that UVA exposure actually denatures and breaks down collagen.
‘The easiest way to think of the different actions of UVA and UVB is, UVA Ages the skin and UVB Burns the skin,’ the therapist who has a Bachelor of Dermal Sciences said in a blog post for the clinic’s website.
She added that there is ‘no benefit whatsoever’ of these sunbeds that has been clinically or otherwise proven.
While Skye encouraged her followers to get their skin checked, she asked what the difference is between using a collarium sun bed and sitting out in the sun.
While Skye encouraged her followers to get their skin checked, she asked what the difference is between using a collarium sun bed and sitting out in the sun
‘Okay guys if you want to live please don’t do what I do,’ she wrote on her Instagram story.
‘Also go have your skin checked! I’m someone who has had melanoma cut out soo I have my skin checked often.
‘But please tell me how this is different from someone laying in the sun or being out in the sun?’
She then claimed that the sun has the ‘strongest UB rays and no one says s**t’.
However, according to The Skin Cancer Foundation, the claim that tanning with any sunbed is safer than tanning outside in the natural sun is a myth.
She then claimed that the sun has the ‘strongest UB rays and no one says s**t’
It says that while it was once believed that UVA light used in sunbeds is mostly just caused skin aging, it is now known that its longer wavelength penetrates the skin more deeply and is strongly linked to melanoma.
According to the American Academy of Dermatology, using a tanning beds before the age of 20 can increase a persons chances of developing melanoma by 47 per cent, and this increases with each session.
Australia has one of the highest rates of skin cancer in the world, and according Cancer Council Australia more than two in three Australians will be diagnosed with skin cancer in their lifetime and bout 2,000 Australians die from skin cancer each year.
Skye said she knows how harmful the sun is because he is ‘pale AF’
