Tips for Removing Sunless Tanner

Sunless Tanner Removing Tips

MastainE
How to remove sunless tanner - Many women want to have perfectly bronzed body. They try so many ways to make their skin 'brown'. But, with the ozone layer depleted, the risk of skin cancer from sun exposure has greatly increased. Sunless tanner is the finest invention to make you become a golden girl without discarding your time and your job.

There are many product of sunless tanner. But, it is expensive! You have to be careful to choose the right product for your skin. Because, even the best sunless tanners can leave you a fake bake orange on your skin if you don't apply them correctly, with stealth, patience and continuity. Luckily, sunless tanner is a temporary stain that usually lasts less than a week. Most self-tanning lotions or foams say to reapply every two or three days, because the effect wears off fast.

You may find a fading effect on your skin when you use an overdose of self-tanner. If you're lucky, it's just your hands or your feet that have turned orange, maybe because you forgot to wear gloves when applying the lotion or because your feet got a few more coats than your legs. So, how to remove it? What we can do? If you need to get rid of the tanning blotches or streaks immediately, you do have alternatives.

Warm water

Use warm water and an exfoliating cloth or sponge to exfoliate the streaked area. This will help your body with its natural skin renewal routine by sloughing off dry, dead skin, and revealing the healthier.

Lemon juice

Lemons have citric acid for exfoliating. Believe it or not, the bleaching properties of lemon juice have been used for centuries on skin and hair. Lemon juice can use for a natural way to remove self-tanning streaks. Gently rub a clean cotton ball soaked in lemon juice over the area. Simply massage the wedge quickly over the area. For larger areas, you can cut a lemon in half and rub it directly on the stain. It's a very simple way.

Baking soda

Baking soda is the safest material without the potential chemical complications that would come along with peroxide or bleach. Put a nice blob of baking soda on a washcloth, a sponge or your palms and gently rub it on damp skin. The baking soda exfoliates the skin, speeding up the loss of tanner, and it can be used on your body.

Pay attention to ankles, heels, elbows and the crook of your arms, your knees as well as behind them and other places where the tanning liquid may have collected and created splotches! By, doing this a couple of times you will remove much of the dead skin, which will cause the tanning product to build up and appear darker than the rest of your body. But remember; don't rub yourself raw, even if you're desperate to get the stuff off! Give it a little rub, rinse off and wait a couple of hours before trying again.

If you've used too much sunless tanner all over your body, you can dump several cups of baking soda into your bathtub and crawl in with it. Add water and soak.

Attention:

You may use baking soda on your face as a scrub, but stay away from the delicate eye area.

Alcohol

Alcohol could be the other alternative. Dip a clean cotton ball into rubbing alcohol, and swipe it across your sunless tanner streaks. This method works best the faster you get to the streaks after they form. Be careful, Alcohol can be drying, so use sparingly, and keep it away from delicate eye areas. The weakness of this method is you need much cotton ball and take more time if the streaks are spread up in your body.

Exfoliation

The most common method of tanner removal is exfoliation. Self-tanner is essentially a dye that deposits pigment onto the skin. When the skin is scrubbed, the skin cells slough off, taking with them the self-tanner. Apply a thin layer of baby oil to the body and

Allow it to soak in for 25-35 minutes. Relax yourself in warm bath water and gently exfoliate the skin. You may use a sugar scrub and a washcloth or a sponge to make it clean.

Swimming

Go to swim! Pool water has actually proven to be helpful in matters of terrible tans. A long swim (or a long soak in the bathtub) is usually enough to speed the natural fading process and eliminate color. This is the cheapest way you can try.

Commercial remover

Use a commercial sunless tanning remover. Many companies that create self-tanners now offer sunless tanner remover as a fast and efficient way to remove streaks, dark spots, stains on the hands or the entire tan. You may try one of these products:

St. Tropez Self-Tan Remover: This 11 oz. bottle is more than enough to get you through the year. Use this unique product to quickly and easily remove self-tanning mistakes. It's ideal for the palms, feet and ankles. This product is also available in a convenient, 10-piece, pocket-sized package.

ModelCo Tan Remover Exfoliating Body Scrub: This gently exfoliating micro-salt scrub dissolves the self-tan while treating the skin to the pleasant scent of pink grapefruit.

Last step: Be Patient.

We know that we're all losing skin cells by the thousands each day. So, if you can wait, you don't need do anything else to get rid of your fake tan. Just be patient, and wait for a few days later-as the outer layer of skin sheds off, the effect will go by itself. But, if you find that an at-home scrub doesn't do the trick, search for a local spa that offers a full-body exfoliation treatment. Often, the vigorous nature of a professional treatment is enough to remove all traces of color.

No one is perfect! There are ways, however, to avoid sunless tanner streaks:

· Keep skin thoroughly moisturized at all times.

· The best way is to apply the self-tanner as quickly and evenly as possible.

· Apply the self-tanner at least three to four hours prior to taking a shower or bath. Most people prefer to apply the tanner at night (before bed time) for this reason.

· Make it as a regular maintenance, including reapplication of tanner as needed.

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  • Sandi5/15/2009

    An important article for anyone who uses sunless tanning products. Thanks.

  • andina10/31/2008

    great tips. thank you

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