Do tanning oils/ lotions work?
Yes, and for many reasons. Tanning lotions work because they moisturize your skin, and moisturized skin is more receptive to tanning (dry skin just flakes off easier and takes your tan with it). They also contain ingredients that accelerate your tan and some have light bronzers that give you a little instant color. Mixing up tanning lotions is awesome because each one has its own advantages and by using different ones every time or every few times you get multiple advantages. Tanning oils are more borderline. They get me more tan when I lay out in the sun, but you cannot use them in tanning beds because the mineral oil in them eats away at the tanning beds. That same mineral oil is said to age the skin and/or dry it out which makes your tan fade faster. I have not experienced either one of these results, just a nice dark tan.
