Tanning Blog: Airbrush and Spray Tanning

Eating A Well-Balanced Diet: The Key to Beautiful Skin?

"You are what you eat." We've all heard this before. But for our purposes, it's important to know that your diet directly affects your skin. We'll discuss how can you improve your skin with a great diet.

It's worthwhile to consider a vegetarian diet. Try to make sure you eat lots of leafy green vegetables. They have antioxidants which fight free radicals which cause cell damage. When our cells are damaged, our skin would look bad and old. Tomatoes, olive oil, and even red wine provide antioxidants which are essential in helping us maintain the youthful look.

The next step in a well-balanced diet is to incorporate protein into your body. Let's be clear: protein does not always mean eating meat. You can substitute animal protein with fish.

Fish is high in protein and omega 3 acids which can keep our heart healthy as well as provide us with a smooth and supple skin. Fish protein is also low in fat and carbohydrates.

Also, a high protein diet will help you manufacture enough collagen for the body and skin. Collagen is considered the building blocks of the body. Unfortunately, vegetables alone do not provide sufficient nutrients to enable the body to manufacture this.

In a well-balanced diet, you should avoid saturated fat which comes from fried foods, junk foods, etc. The fat that's ideal is the unsaturated variety.

So start eating a well-balanced diet today and reap the benefits like looking young and beautiful. And if you want to have great skin that everyone envies, try...

Body Armor: Tan Extending Lotion

This will help keep your skin well hydrated and supple and at the same time extend the life of your existing tan. Always keep the glow of your complexion with Body Armor. Get it today!

Acne And Spray Tanning

Acne is a pain in the you-know-what. It's typically caused by blockages in the follicles.

Since skin is sensitive during this period, if you're considering getting a tan during a breakout, try to monitor your diet. Also try to avoid any UV ray exposure as it'll make it worse. 

If you still want to get a tan but are tired of breaking out during sun exposure, consider spray tanning. With spray tanning, the outermost layer of the skin reacts with the solution and doesn't touch the skin cells and the deeper layer of the skin. 

To get a great spray tan, we recommend...

Confidential: Self-Tanning Lotion for the Body

Confidential is hypoallergenic and will be able to make your acne less noticeable with the resulting tan. It is also great for updating your current tan if it is fading. Get it today!

Lactic Acid & The Skin...

History tells us that Cleopatra was a woman of great beauty. By all accounts, she was someone who was able to mesmerize almost everyone who came into contact with her. And one of her best features was her beautiful, flawless skin which was said to be the result of bathing in milk every day.

While milk does have components to make the skin blemish free, doing Cleopatra’s daily regimen isn't adviseable. It's an expensive habit. There's a better way though...

...the lactic acid in milk is responsible for improving the skin and making it look good.  Lactic acid is part of a group of exfoliants called alpha hydroxy acid (AHA). It's derived from fermented milk.

Lactic acid has the ability to remove the dead skin cells, hydrate the skin, and so much more.

How is this releveant to spray tanning?

Keeping the pH balance of the skin is important because the tanning session can dehydrate the skin. It can also make the skin prone to allergies and infections.

Lactic acid is able maintain the pH balance and keep the skin hydrated at the same time. When you are about go through a spray tanning session, we recommend...

Hide Out: pH Balancing Spray

 

Used prior to being spray-tanned, Hide Out will maintain the pH balance in your skin and remove oils or perfume that weren't washed away when you showered.

Prepare your skin with Hide Out: pH Balancing Spray to get optimum spray tan results. Get it now.

How DHA Tanning Was Discovered

How was DHA (or spray) tanning discovered?

Back in the 1920s, dihydroxyacetone was a solution derived from sugar beets. It was mostly used during the X-ray process. The breakthrough came when soemone discovered that the skin became discolored when DHA was spilled. 

Fast forward to the 1950s: Eva Wittgenstein at the University of Cincinnati was conducting research on the effects of DHA on glycogen storage disease.

At the time, it was being administered as an oral medication to children. Since it was in liquid form and was given in substantial doses, a number of the patients would spit it out or accidentally spill it on their skin. Wittgenstein noticed that patients' skin gradually turned brown after a few hours of being exposed to the DHA.

Eva decided to try it on herself and applied it to her skin. She noted that she was able to get the same effect as regular tanning. But even better, the solution only penetrated the outermost layer of the skin and was non-toxic.

She was also further able to discover that the different degrees of color were achieved by manipulating the degree of DHA in the solution. 

Modern day DHA tanning has come a long way. If you want the best spray tan on the market today, check us out...

Our DHA Tanning Solutions are organic and aren't tested on animals. Whatever shade you want -- from mocha to a deep gold bronze -- we can help you acheive it. Get it today at EnvyTan.

Black Walnut Extract

The black walnut (juglans nigra) is said to have medicinal benefits. Very early, Native Americans used black walnut fruit to remedy poison oak and poison ivy rash.

Black walnut seems most effective for the skin. It also appears to have antifungal properties. And if you combine it with garlic, it is as effective as any other over-the-counter anti-fungal medication.

Another of its great properties are its anti-aging properties. It's been shown to go over after wrinkles, making us younger looking.

And black walnut's also used in spray tanning. The best spray tanning product that contains black walnut is...

...Lasting Envy: Spray Tan in a Can

It contains extract from the black walnut fruit which will result in a better looking tan and will moisturize as well. Get it today.