How to Fade and Remove Spray-On Tan and Fix a Bad Sunless Tan

A spray-on tanning product can give you a touch of bronze and color during times when you cannot go to a tanning salon or sit in the natural sunlight. Sprayed sunless tans can look natural. However, sometimes you may encounter a bad sunless tan product and end up with an ugly, orange spray-on tan. Learn how to fade and remove a bad spray-on tan and fix the skin results of a bad tanning product.

Instructions

1. Start the sunless tan fading process to get rid of orange, blotchy fake tans. Fill your bathroom tub with water that is as hot as you can comfortably manage. Soak your skin in the tub for 15 to 30 minutes. The hot water helps soften the skin tissue and prepare the spray-on sunless tan stains for the next step of quick and easy tan fading and tan removal.

2. Use an exfoliating body wash or body scrub like Aveeno Active Naturals Positively Radiant Exfoliating Body Wash to fade the orange results of poor-quality sunless tanning products. Exfoliating the skin removes the upper layer of dead skin to reveal newer skin underneath. The spray-on tanning product only stains the top layer of skin. Removing this layer can help to easily fade an orange or blotchy tan and effectively remove the effects of spray-on tans and sunless tanning products.

3. Dry the tanned skin with a clean towel.

4. Apply a generous amount of an exfoliating skin care lotion containing alpha hydroxy acid (AHA) or beta hydroxy acid (BHA). These two chemicals are skin-safe and found in a variety of products, such as Aqua Glycolic Hand & Body Lotion or Murad AHA/BHA Exfoliating Cleanser. These products can be purchased at your local drugstore, or online at Amazon (link in the Resources section at the end of this article). AHA and BHA products speed up the skin's natural cell turnover rate to rid the skin of old skin and replace it with newer skin. This is one of the fastest ways to fade a bad tan and get rid of an orange, blotchy sunless tan.

Tips & Warnings

• Avoid orange tans by following the sunless tanning product's instructions and only using high-quality spray-on tanning products.

Resources

• Aveeno Active Naturals Positively Radiant Exfoliating Body Wash
• Aqua Glycolic Hand & Body Lotion
• Murad AHA/BHA Exfoliating Cleanser