Best Sunless Tanning Lotion

Trying to determine the best product is quite difficult. What will be the basis – sales volume, popularity, reviews, surveys or pricing? In this case, we are talking about the best sunless tanning lotions. It would be nice if brands will be mentioned here but there might be some bias in the process of deciding which is best. Instead, what will be discussed here is the one that is considered as the most effective tanning agent found in these sunless tanning lotions. Fair enough?

Okay, let’s start with a tanning agent that is most frequently mentioned, it is none other than dihydroxyacetone (also known as DHA) – which is known to be a most effective tanning agent. It is a colorless sugar that interacts with the dead cells and as it interacts with the dead skin, color change happens. It does not say how long the dead skin cell stays on the body or if a new skin cell would also interact with it. It would have been really informative if there was any mention of how DHA acts on them. Now, there is a number of self tanning lotions which have the same active ingredient DHA. The question then is which one is best?

A random survey of reviews was made online to see if the choice lotions would contain that ingredient.  Here are three reviews: 1.) One about.com review has put Fake Bake Lotion as 4^th choice after the first three choices which are all spray tanning. 2.) An iVillage review puts Coppertone Endless Summer Sunless Tanning Lotion as 1^st choice on its list. 3.) Another about.com review puts Neutrogena Instant Bronze lotion as 1^st choice on its list. Let’s stop here because there is already a trend of preference for the best sunless tanning lotion. All the brands shown above have something in common – they all contain DHA. It is safe to say that lotions with DHA are considered the best lotions for sunless tanning. This is consistent with searches for sunless tanning lotions made online.

For sunless tanners available in groceries and supermarkets, those that contain DHA will be the ones most sought after. Now, it will depend on the brand and manufacturer one trusts most. Maybe first choice could also be the first brand in the market that has DHA. Individual preference on brands will make it difficult for us to state which brand would be the best. Sales volume will be one basis to know which brand is best. The bottom line for us to know the best sunless tanning lotion is through the number of honest, true to life positive testimonials based on user experiences of these different products.

Here, we were able to identify the main active ingredient that is best for sunless tanning lotion.  A random survey of three reviews sites is just a basis to see if their choice of lotion would all have DHA in its ingredients. To know the best brand of lotion in the market, a wider survey will need to be done.