How to achieve optimum results

The first step in maintaining your spray tan starts BEFORE you get sprayed. Your skin rebuilds and replaces itself daily and completely every 28 days. Our natural skin exfoliation process means that 25% of our skin is exfoliated every week. DHA, the active ingredient in all sunless tanners only works within the top 25% of our skin, called the stratum corneum. If these dead skin cells are not removed prior to your sunless spray session, they ultimately create a barrier thereby preventing DHA absorption.
Since a sunless spray tan only effects the top 25% of your skin, you will want to remove the dead dry skin cells by gently exfoliating with nylon mesh gloves and an oil free body scrub designed specifically for sunless tanners 24 hours before your session. The use of many over the counter shower products, soaps or moisturizing shower gels have a high pH. Many of these products will neutralize the DHA bronzing reaction and cause any DHA that has not yet reacted to result in a less than desirous color.
Next month I will explain tips to care for your sunless tan, thereby making it last longer.