Thread: Sunless tanners
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Old 03-27-2008, 03:44 PM   #14 (permalink)
Agee
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I feel like that in 20 years they will find they are carcinogenic
Ummm...well...
I have friends who run a chemistry lab at a local gigantic university and they are studying the effect of fake tanners on human skin. Here are their preliminary result: no problem with fake tanning alone, but if you do the fake tan and then go out in the sun it causes significant sun damage to your skin. Apparently the fake tanners make you tan with a sugar-substance, and sugar+heat=caramelization.
So - do the fake tan thing, just don't do the actual tan thing on top of it.
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