I am SUNBATHING trying to obtain a DEEP, DARK TAN using TANNING OIL!! I have a couple QUESTIONS!!!!!?

I am ABUSING the English language's systems of CAPITALIZATION and PUNCTUATION with my HORRENDOUS TYPING!! Should I punctuate questions with EXCLAMATION POINTS!!!!!?

1: Tanning oil does slightly inhibit your body's ability to cool itself through sweating. So yes, it can make it feel slightly hotter outside than it is, but the difference is usually insignificant. Why don't you put tanning oil on only part of your body and feel the difference for yourself?

2: Tanning oil is basically weak sunblock. Its purpose is to prevent you from getting sunburned, so that the skin that is becoming tan dosn't burn and peel away. SPF 8 is for more intense sun, or for longer sunbathing. SPF 4 is for less intense sun and shorter sunbathing. Follow the instructions on the bottle! If you burn yourself and cause your skin to peel, all your work is for nothing. You'll just look like a disgusting mess. I don't know how dark you got from the one session of 30 minutes, but the trick is to sunbathe regularly in short intervals. Don't overdo it. Again, check the bottle and follow the instructions.

You do not get your color from the oil, you get your color from the sun. This means that no tanning oil will give you a "deep, long-lasting color"--the sun does. Same sun, same color. The difference is the SPF, which will determine how long you can be in the sun before you burn. Certain products do have a pigment in them that will stain your skin. These are called bronzers, but they may have other names. Some are designed to work alone (with no sun), and some are designed to work as tanning oil but also add extra pigment to your skin. Be warned, I have never seen a tan in a bottle that looked even remotely natural. If you want your tan to be Jersey Shore-orange, get a bronzer.

3: Soap and water, then more soap and more water. You don't have to wait any period of time to wash it off. The tanning oil is designed to be water resistant so that it doesn't immediately wash off if you're splashing around at the beach, etc. Add soap to the equation and the water resistance is void. Soap is an emulsifier, which in simple terms means that it allows oil to dissolve into water. Soap plus water will get rid of tanning oil, whether it's been on for 80 minutes or 8 seconds.

I know that, like any mature person, you've got your mind all made up and are going to tan regardless of what anyone else tells you. I'm wondering if there's a reason that you haven't considered spray-tanning, though. You can get any shade you want in just a few treatments, and oftentimes, just one treatment. Unlike bronzing products, modern spray tans look natural, and they don't cause your skin to weather and wrinkle, nor will they cause skin cancer. I'm fine with you looking like a detoxed meth addict by the time you're thirty and getting your nose removed due to skin cancer by the time you're forty, but maybe you want to consider an option that you won't regret in ten years.

Edit: Aww, snap! You know what I love? When someone reads the headline to an article and then instantly becomes an expert on a subject when the article in fact refutes their opinion.

Without going into too much detail, your article plainly states that "the study was neither double blind, randomized, nor conducted on humans — nor has it been repeated." Also, they used pure chemicals, not the 5-20x lower concentrations found in actual sunblock. Also also, no sample was tested without the chemicals applied for reference. And finally, even if sunblock absolutely, positively caused skin cancer 100% of the time, YOU are the one advocating wearing it and THEN baking yourself in the sun routinely. Whose argument are you trying to support here?

Regarding DHA, let's ignore the part of my article that says that the effects don't penetrate past the dead layer of skin on the epidermis. Dead skin, if you didn't know, can't get cancer. Let's go down to the bottom, where every medical regulatory agency in the world as well as the Skin Cancer Society approves and/or recommends spray tanning. Let's look to the study, which applied 20% (elevated levels) of DHA to pig skin--for 40 minutes. Ever had a 40-minute ultra-concentrated spray tan? If you did, I hope you tanned the outside of your body instead of the inside, otherwise it may have been "potentially hazardous," particularly if you inhaled it. That would put DHA right up there with other deadly chemicals such as water which should not be inhaled.

If you're allergic, you're allergic, and that's fine. I'm still trying to understand why you want to take your apparently hypersensitive skin, slather it with possibly carcinogenic chemicals, and then routinely bake in the sun if you're so concerned and educated about skin cancer. Did I miss some part of your argument which makes this at all safe or rational?

I honestly hope you're not under 18 if you're doing this. The reason for that is because as a young person, your risk of developing skin cancer is SO much higher. That's my 2 cents, but I'll go on to answer your question.

1. Tanning oil won't make you feel hotter. It's designed to attract more sunlight because it's shiny.

2. Using an spf of 4 means that you can be in the sun 4 times as long as you would normally be able to be without burning. Spf of 8 means 8 times longer. So think about how long it would normally take you to burn and do the math.

3. As for getting it off, you simply shower with soap. 80 minutes in water means when you're swimming - not bathing and scrubbing.

dude first off chill.

its no big deal if your done tanning for the day then get shower, if it bothers you that bad. and 30 min. isnt going to do much to get you that deep dark tan. try a oil with no sunscreen once you have a good base. it shouldnt make you feel hotter except that it might atract some more sun to you. hope i helped. but i mean this isnt rocket science. what one person does may not work for another. its one of those things were its trial and error. hope i helped good luck.

you're gonna have to go for much longer than a few days... an hour every day for two weeks and then you ll have a deep dark, NICE tan. Don't stay out the whole day, your skin will look ugly (not when you're old but now; I stayed out in the sun everyday for four days and I ended up with knee wrinkles at 16. I had to pay a lot for laser/creams to reduce them and they're still therE). So don't go over an hour, go everyday

Drink carrot juice if you can, or eat tons of carrots! Beta carotene your body can absorb and make into vitamin A for your skin. Carrot juice is also a very good source of vitamin k that improves circulation and is good for the skin! Carrot juice will help give you a very very nice colour in the sun uf you drink it daily (aim for a cup or so).

Eat a cooked tomato dish (tomato soup, fried tomato/egg scramble, etc) or Take a pill with lycopene in it. Lycopene has been shown to protect your skin against sunburn significantly and to assist in cell repair once you're exposed to the sun. Also don't cover your eyes the whole time. Your retina is what signals the release of melanine in your skin when it's exposed to the sun. So your eyes need to be exposed too.

Eat oranges if you can, these also help with skin protection as well, due to their vit C content. Any fruits rich in antioxidants will help with protecting your skin against further damage (like wrinkles and age spots). Antioxidants help some unstable toxins by giving up their own electrons and helping the toxins to stabilize.. this way the electron won't be taken from your skin molecules (collagen, etc)

If you can, add some msm to green smoothies if you drink them, or even just put some in your carrot juice! Msm will help you with collagen production (and so will the vitamin C from the oranges). Most of our soils are to depleted to produce greens with sufficient MSM in them... however, you can buy the pills and crush them into powder form yourself (much better absorption!) and add them to a veg juice or a green smoothie. Personally, after a few weeks of taking MSM, my skin always looks extremely even toned... like I've been air brushed.

Otherwise, try to get the above mentioned nutrients from the whole food sources I mentioned. Your liver does a better job at picking up these things from whole foods. Plus, often pills contain a much larger amount of each nutrient than your body can handle, and the idea that your bod will only absorb what it needs is not true for every vitamin/mineral. Plus, you don;t know what fillers they use.

Make sure you're not wearing anything that would make you photosensitive.

Good luck!

PS. Make sure your tanning oils don't have bronzers in them... these might hinder your skin's own protection ability... and by that I don't mean tanning ability. Tanning the surface of your skin is your skin's protection against the sun. If you're going for an hour a day, put on sunscreen 5-10 minutes before you go out. This will give you about 15-20 minutes without any protection (it takes that long for it to start working). This is enough to get all your vitamin D and it will still give you a slight bit of protection for the remaining time (you'll still tan). Use SPF 8-10 with UVA/UVB protection that doesn't come in a brown bottle that advertises tanning!

your face is more sensitive, and your neck VERY prone to wrinkles and aging so cover those with at least SPF 15 20 minutes before sun! :) You won't be two different colours.

Dry brush gently twice a week at night and moisturize with a basic (not much crap in it!) non comodogenic (doesn't block pores) moisturizer like Cetaphil daily for the perfect look!!! I also love Burt's bees Aloe and Linden flower after sun soother for after a sunbathing shower! But it's not necessary.

Why do you want to change your appearance so much by tanning? I just dont get it.

Your greasy feel has nothing to do with your suntan oil. It started way back when with your mother, she is greasy too. So it is normal for her children to be greasy too.

guedo..you dont have to be dark to be handsome