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Sunless Tanning Lotion
The History of Sunless Tanning Lotion
Face it, most of us don’t like reading a bunch of facts
about the history of anything, but it might entertain
you while you’re waiting for your sunless tanning lotion
to dry. Besides this information should convince you
that your doing the best thing for your body by using a
lotion that does not require you to bake in the sun for
hours on end causing wrinkles and worse yet the dreaded
‘C’ word – skin cancer. So, how did you get that nifty
little product of a tanning lotion that lets you get a
beautiful color every summer through sunless tanning?
Doctors, Fashion and Accident
The tanning crazy in the United States began way back in
the 1920s, when women looked fully dressed when they
began to wade onto to the beaches! Also, at that time
doctors were beginning to prescribe sun therapy for
everything from communicable diseases to stress.
The trend setters in fashion contributed to your bottle
of sunless tanning lotion too because “Coco” Chanel
showed up after vacationing on the French Riviera with a
glow of a tan, and of course accident played its part
when those guys known as scientists noticed their hands
were darker after dropping some dihydroxyacetone or DHA.
Sounds a little techie you think, but basically DHA is
an active ingredient that comes from different
vegetables, and when it’s refined and applied to your
skins outer layer which has lots of dead skin cells, you
get a tan. It’s hard to imagine that the millions of
bottles of lotions for sunless tanning being bought
today began because of doctors, fashion, and accident.
The Love of Sun, Men and a Movie
For the sun worshippers, trend followers and health
conscious crowd things continued on course until General
Electric produced a home tanning lamp in 1946. WWII was
drawing to a close, and it was logical. Women wanted to
look good for all those boys returning home, and the ole
production lines needed to be filled with other things
besides tanks and guns.
Guns aside, and love in the air people headed to the
beach and back yard with baby and baby oil in hand in
the early 1950s. Scientific discoveries, streamlined
production, and advertising helped Coppertone push its
way into the American psyche along with the ever popular
UV reflectors in the late 50s. Popular beach movies like
Gidget did its part too in helping you hold that sunless
tanning lotion that you have in your hand today.
The First Sunless Tanning Lotion – A Flop and a
Success!
Time marched on into the 1960s and presto, the first
lotion for sunless tanning was on the market! However,
it was needless to say – a flop. Many companies rushed
to production on the first sunless tanning product, but
research was still needed because of the lack of
quality.
Pools, backyards, and beaches along with cocoa butter
worked for a while, but technology for the development
of a sunless lotion for tanning lay very quiet for over
twenty years because of competition with the tanning bed
phenomena – until the decade of the 1990s. Through
research a very ingenious man perfected the liquid form
of DHA and finally the new industry of sunless tanning
and liquid lotions had arrived.
Collateral Damage: Health and Beauty
Sad as it is to say the effects of the love for the
outdoor suns rays along with the tanning bed craze,
began showing up in the medical statistics around the
world in the form of skin cancer. Sixty years of tanning
gave a little backbone to the new medical information,
and the beauty industry let us know too that damaging
superficial effects were the direct cause of consistent
sun exposure.
It’s likely that you know of someone that has had some
form of cancer removed, and maybe have even seen the
effects of skin damage in someone you know. Today thank
goodness tan worshippers have the option because of
sunless tanning lotions!
Sunless Tanning Lotions – Stranger than Fiction
Well there you have it in a nutshell the historical
facts about sunless tanning beginning with an accident
and ending with a lotion. No longer do you need to look
like Casper the Ghost, or to risk your health and beauty
to do it.
The hot lotions on the market today give you the option
for taking in the sun sunless in a much healthier way
with lotions applied right in the coolness of your home
or apartment. Funny isn’t it. History is stranger than
fiction and it wasn’t to boring either. Besides it gave
you a little entertainment while waiting on your sunless
tanning lotion. Enjoy!
About the Author
Tina Watts is a work at home college educated mom
with one child, and currently investigating the option
of a full time writing career. She is a new
contributor to
http://tanning-beds-n-tanning-lotions.com.
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