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Tacoma Pass the SPF!

Posted on Wednesday, May 27, 2009 in Tacoma, Uncategorized

The website TotalBeauty.com has named Tacoma the city with the 12th worst skin in the country.  Why because we are stressed, have lots of skin cancer, and too many tanning beds!

From the website:

Not a fan of stress breakouts? (Stress raises your level of cortisol, which can affect oil glands and acne.) You may want to avoid Tacoma like the plague, because — along with 21 tanning salons per capita and a high incidence of skin cancer according to the Center for Disease Control — it is the most stressed-out city in our country. (Tacomans may find some relief from these top-rated acne-fighting products.)

So once the most stressed, always the most stressed? Where is my Oil of Olay? Want great skin? You better move to Eugene, OR. They are the closest city to Tacoma to rank on the Best Skin list (#13).

Full List of Best & Worst Skin HERE

Bring on the comments

  1. jamie says:

    Wait…21 tanning salons per capita? Over 4 million tanning salons? Are there even that many tanning salons in the world?

    Even if we take that to mean “21 people per tanning salon”, we’d ring in at a whopping 9000+ salons, which still seems pretty questionable.

  2. Jake says:

    My guess would be they mean per 100,000 people.

  3. jamie says:

    I suppose that would at least be a figure that makes sense, but if that’s the case they probably shouldn’t have used the words “per capita”…

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