Breakthrough in Self Tanning Technology

Consumer products companies have been trying to get it right for years, but they’ve always come up short on sunless tanning products. While people have heard the warnings about getting too much sun or taking too many trips to the tanning salon, there hasn’t been a good alternative. Until now.

Historically sunless tanning products have been messy, smelly, hard to apply, and often leave streaky results with unpredicable and startling colors. Well, the new crop of tanning moisturizers may still have a smell that is an acquired taste but they get great marks across the board for delivering a safe, easy, natural bronzed look.

For example, Jergens Natural Glow Daily Self Tanning Moisturizer combines the same moisturizing ingredients found in many other lotions (e.g. glycerin, petrolatum, mineral oil) with color enhancing ingredients dihydroxyacetone, or DHA, and Erythrulose. According to the Jergens web site, the secret sauce has been to combine them in a special way:

“What are the color enhancing ingredients?
DHA is found in common sunless tanners, Erythrulose is not typically found in common sunless tanners. Erythrulose is used in prestige department store brand facial sunless tanning products. Jergens® natural glow Daily Moisturizer contains a combination of DHA and Erythrulose to provide more natural-looking skin color than sunless tanners which typically contain only DHA.

How do the color enhancing ingredients work?
Our research has optimized the combination of Erythrulose and DHA, so that they work together to subtly enhance and gradually deepen your natural skin color. Both Erythrulose and DHA provide deeper skin color through chemical reactions, called the Maillard Reaction. However, they deepen skin color at different rates of change and to different skin colorations. Both ingredients are safe for consumers for topical use.”

If you haven’t already, try some Jergens Natural Glow before the winter causes retailers to be sold out of the populer self-tanning lotion.