How to Lighten Your Spray on Tan
If you are trying to fade a spray-on tan that is too dark or blotchy, there are several simple home remedies that will help lighten it quickly. Sometimes spray on tans can cause dark spots, streaks, or an orange glow that needs to be lightened to look natural. Spray tans work by dying the skin with DHA, a type of chemical that turns the top layer of your skin cells a light brown color. To speed up spray tan fading, you need to exfoliate this superficial layer of your skin that contains the tanning dye. Does this Spark an idea?
Things You'll Need
- Hot water
- Tub
- Baking soda
- Exfoliating body wash
- Loofah
- Lotion with AHA
- Lemon
Instructions
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Soak in a tub full of very warm water and 1 cup of baking soda to soften your skin and start the lightening process. Stay in the tub for at least half an hour to get your skin well-saturated.
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Scrub your body with an exfoliating body wash or soap. Rub a loofah or scrub brush evenly around your whole body. This will remove some of the color that is sitting on the top layer of your skin.
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Get out of the tub and dry off. Check to see if your tan is lighter. It should be at least one shade lighter.
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Cut a lemon in half and rub it over the parts of your body that are noticeably darker or streaked with spray tan. The natural bleaching agent in lemons will even out your skin tone.
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Apply a handful of body lotion that contains Alpha Hydroxy Acids, which speed up the rate of cell turnover to lighten your spray on tan. Spread the lotion all over your skin every day at least once a day until your tan has lightened to the shade you like.
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Tips & Warnings
The spray on tan will fade naturally in about a week if you do nothing.
