Best Self Tanning Lotion

The Best Lotion – Self Tanning

Jeremy was the kind of guy who always wanted the best of everything. He had to drive the fastest car, he had to own the biggest house, he had to marry the prettiest wife, and he even sought out the best butter for his morning toast. If it wasn’t deemed “the best” by some consumer group or a smattering of his peers, he wasn’t interested in it. So, naturally, when he decided to try out “self tanning” he wanted to find the best lotion.

Self tanning was something new to Jeremy. He’d always wanted the best tan, but his pursuit of the best in everything else life had to offer left him precious little time to spend in a tanning salon or lying about in the sun. There had to be a better way – and that would be the best way, of course – for Jeremy to achieve the best tan that he could.

So Jeremy heard about self tanning and started looking for the best lotion. Self tanning is essentially a “fake tan” achieved by using a self tanning or “sunless tanning” lotion. Jeremy learned that all he had to do was rub this stuff on his skin and he’d have the appearance of the best possible tan in about an hour. It may not really be the best tan because it wasn’t really a tan at all, but as long as others thought it was the best tan, that was all that mattered.

As Jeremy searched for the best lotion, self tanning of course, he went through a bit of trial and error. The first one he found was made by Coppertone and was called QT – Quick Tan. Of course he knew that Coppertone had been around for ages and he learned that QT was the first ever self tanning lotion, introduced in about 1960.


He decided that if it was the first it must be the best. He was wrong. QT turned his skin bright orange. He looked like a walking pumpkin. He was afraid he’d have to call out of work the next day (he had the best job, after all), but found that QT washed off pretty easily. He’d have to go to another brand to find the best self tanning lotion.

Some may think that Jeremy’s search was in vain. How would he know when he found the best lotion? Self tanning lotions all do pretty much the same thing (with the exception of the old QT – self tanning technology has advanced quite a bit since then) and “the best” must surely be a matter of opinion in many cases. That was really the point, however, as far as Jeremy was concerned. As long as he could deem it the best himself, it wouldn’t matter what anyone else thought.

Happily, Jeremy did indeed find the best lotion. Self tanning became something he would do every few days for most of the rest of his life since he’d spent so much time in his search. Which lotion did Jeremy deem the best? I honestly don’t know. His search made him a little bitter and cynical. Every time I asked him what the best self tanning lotion was he’d tell me to go find it myself.

About the Author

Abe Gardea is a full-time freelance writer and a contributor to http://tanning-beds-n-tanning-lotions.com.

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