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Self-tanning: spray, lotion or pill?

Everyone, it seems, wants a nice tan, but most of us are not able to travel to the Bahamas, Caribbean or Mexico every month. Of course, tanning beds have been around forever and with new pills, sprays and lotions available it is easier than ever to keep this years fabulous tan.

Self Tanning Pills

All self-tanning solutions will cost you, but when you compare all the methods, taking a pill is certainly the easiest way to get that bronze color. Different methods will affect the different layers of your skin, but all self-tanning pills containing carotenoid pigments saturate the fat layers under the skin to change the color of your skin.

Sunless tanning pills without carotenoid pigments are generally considered ineffective in producing a nice tan on the body.

Sunless tanning lotions

Most sunless tanning lotions to use the tanning agent dihydroxyacetone. This chemical ingredient reacts with dead skin to make skin appear tanned. Sounds gross, but it works and feels just like any other lotion. With a lotion, the tan will last between 5-7 days.

By applying sunless tanning lotions can be even more complex than you think. Get help from a a professional sunless tanning salon will certainly make the task much easier and ensure better results. But if you make yourself, be sure to use a circular motion and / or vertical and horizontal lines to decrease the chance of streaks your tan.

Sunless Tanning Sprays

New spray and the ease and popularity of airbrush body systems make beds Tanning a thing of the past. Sunless tanning sprays with often give results that look almost better than the real thing.

Sunless Tanning can produce results faster than the sun and using regular self-tanning Sun block and you will regularly protect your skin from premature aging.

About the Author

Brien Berdon is an author, researcher and sun-worshipper. For more on the sunless tanning craze go to Sunless Tanning Tips

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