How You Can Use Tanning Lotion

By Haywood Hunter


You will find that you have a lot of different choices when you are looking at tanning lotion. Each one of these is made for different purposes so you need to know what you are looking for to avoid any possible damages to your skin. Of course you should know that the word tanning means to make one's skin darker.

There are actually three different ways in which you can get a tan. One of these is to go out and be in the sun outside. The way that your skin tans when you are outside is through UV radiation. Today there are reports that this is not the best method and can cause damage to the skin.

The second method is to choose one of the special types of lotions that are available to spray or rub on. This is one of most popular choices because it is so safe. However it is one of the choices that you have to be the most careful with to avoid ending up with a skin color that is not desired.

A safer way to tan with UV rays is through an indoor facility where you can go. There are occasions when these places are actually used by doctors to help patients get even Vitamin D. It is likely that you have heard about all of the dangers of being exposed to UV rays but what you might not know is that there are also benefits.

There are actually choices of specific lotions for each way to get a tan. Even though they are all unique and work for just one purpose, they can easily be confused with each other and you might mix them up. Sometimes you might only be wasting your money if you choose the wrong one but other times you can actually cause damage to your skin.

There are actually three options for you to look at with lotions which include those that will help you to get a natural looking tan without UV rays, called self-tanning lotions; those that are going to keep your tan longer, called enhancers; and those that are going to help you to avoid damages from the sun with SPF, called sunscreens. The ones that protect your skin from UV rays are made specifically to be used outdoors. In the past these might have been harder to find but today you do not have to look far because SPF is found in almost all lotion choices as well as in make up.

There are two ways in which a self-tanner can work. The first is that it could be dyeing your skin, much like when you get your hair dyed. The second is that it might be providing your top layer of skin which contains melanin with a chemical oxidation.

The last choice of tanning lotion is that which will enhance your tan. These actually help your skin to be able to have more resistance to the UV rays of the sun because they build up melanin in the skin. This makes the skin darker because melanin is what gets dark when you tan with UV rays or any other choice of self-tanner.




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