Showering After Tanning

There may be a mild benefit to waiting for 20 minutes or so for the skin to fully cool after a session but that benefit is mild and the natural melanin production in the skin will not be impacted by showering.

Showering after tanning. After tanning in one of our indoor tanning beds like our fast faster fastest or instant beds you can shower as soon as you d like. Should you be sunbathing or uv tanning without any bronzers or tanning accelerators it s pretty safe to shower shortly after you re done your tanning session. If you re sunbathing or uv tanning without any accelerators or bronzers you can take a shower 20 minutes after your tanning session after your skin has cooled off.

Showering after uv tanning may be a good idea to help prevent sunburn or damaged skin. While it is true that you may feel grubby and hot after spending 20 minutes lying on a tanning beds if you wait an hour or two afterwards until you get in the shower it will be much better. But if you had bronzers with your spray tanning treatment give it at least eight hours of waiting time.

Because indoor tanning beds work by uv light penetrating your skin and changing the pigment your tan cannot wash away in the shower. You can wait 2 3 hours before showering and safely assume that you are free to get wet. Our answer it depends on the type of tan you get.

To ensure that you get the ideal results from your spray tanning treatment wait for at least three to four hours before hopping into the shower. In fact immediate showering after tanning may result in poor results and uneven streaking. Showering after using uv tanning beds is not really a big deal.

Since there is no artificial process involved you re only triggering the natural production of melanin in your body the shower will not affect your skin. Uv tanning doesn t involve the use of any products that could be washed off instead it just triggers the production of melanin naturally.