| If you've used indoor tanning lotion before, you know | | | | stimulation of blood flow to achieve this effect, there |
| that it can sometimes produce a tingling sensation on | | | | are other ways of doing it. Some indoor tanning lotions |
| the skin. The tingling isn't painful and is rarely even | | | | simply have melanin as an ingredient; these may |
| uncomfortable. However, many people are afraid of | | | | produce little or no tingling effect. Additionally, how |
| that tingling sensation. They worry that the tingling | | | | much of a tingling sensation you'll feel depends on your |
| means that something is going on with the skin that | | | | own body chemistry. The amount of increased blood |
| isn't healthy. As a result, a frequently asked question in | | | | flow and your own ability to notice nerve sensation |
| tanning salons is "why do tanning lotions tingle?" Salons | | | | can affect how much tingling you may feel when |
| which are staffed with knowledgeable people will have | | | | applying indoor tanning lotions. |
| the answer. But for those that don't already know, the | | | | The other question that people have in relation to the |
| tingling is related to the process that is happening when | | | | tingling sensation produced by indoor tanning lotions is |
| lotions are activated by the rays of the tanning booth. | | | | whether or not this sensation is an indication that |
| Basically, the way that indoor tanning lotions work is | | | | something unsafe is going on with the body. There are |
| that they stimulate the production of melanin in the | | | | no definitive answers to this question although the |
| body. The purpose of this is to increase the effects of | | | | general consensus in the industry is that there is |
| the UV rays that you expose yourself to in a tanning | | | | nothing unsafe about the tingling sensation. Just as |
| booth (which is why you can get a tan more quickly | | | | there is nothing unsafe associated with the tingling that |
| indoors than outdoors). There are different ways that | | | | you feel when blood flow returns to a foot that has |
| different indoor tanning lotions stimulate melanin | | | | fallen asleep due to poor circulation, you are not doing |
| production. One of these is to use chemicals which | | | | anything to the body with indoor tanning lotions that the |
| cause the blood to flow to the skin more quickly than | | | | body is unequipped to handle. |
| normal, moving the melanin to the skin. You know that | | | | However, some people disagree with the assessment |
| feeling when your foot falls asleep and then the blood | | | | that the tingling sensation is safe. Others don't care |
| rushes back into it and it tingles? It's more or less the | | | | one way or another about whether or not it's safe; |
| same idea, except that you have increased blood flow | | | | they just don't like the feeling of the tingling that comes |
| instead of blood returning to the body after levels | | | | from indoor tanning lotions. That's okay; there are |
| decreased. | | | | enough products on the market that you should be |
| Okay, so why do some indoor tanning lotions tingle | | | | able to find suitable indoor tanning lotions which do not |
| more than others? You might have even used lotions | | | | cause your skin to tingle from use. Work with your |
| that don't tingle at all, and that's probably because the | | | | salon professionals to find the right tanning lotions and |
| method of increasing melanin is different in those | | | | other products for your tanning preferences. |
| products. Although many indoor tanning lotions use the | | | | |