Endless Summer
Skincare Essentials For The Health Of Your Tan

by Judie Bizzozero

You've Invested Some Serious Time And Effort Achieving A Healthy-looking Tan, so Why Not Nourish Your Body With Some Skincare Essentials For Summer? The following Products Can Be Found At Your Professional Indoor Tanning Salon And are Ideal For Conditioning Your Skin And Keeping Your Tan Looking Superb throughout The Summer.

John Abaté International

JA's UV Repair with Vitamin C soothes UV-exposed skin, promotes elasticity and discourages collagen breakdown. Specially created to be used after UV exposure, this cooling lotion moisturizes and nourishes, leaving skin looking and feeling firmer and younger. This premium formula is rich in antioxidant vitamins A, C and E, as well as soothing aloe vera and moisture-binding hyaluronic acid. Scented with natural essential oil of Mandarin, UV Repair is available in a .606-ounce packette for $3.80 and 8-ounce bottle for $27.

To keep your skincare regime on a daily schedule try JA™ Body Emulsion Daily Moisturizer, a light, easily absorbed daily moisturizer for optimum skin health and appearance. The formula nourishes, revitalizes and helps shield against premature aging, leaving your skin soft, supple and healthier looking.

Available in 7.75-ounce bottle that retails for $10.95.

California Tan

New for this year is California Tan's Total Immersion™, which helps extend, enhance and complete a tan. The tan-extending formula features VITATAN™ and Crimson Sea Copper to submerge skin in hydration and help prolong tanning results. It offers advanced skincare ingredients to help maintain dark color and deliver essential moisture and tan-extending benefits to the skin.

The 16-ounce bottle retails for $18.

For those of you who may have overdone it in the sun, California Tan provides you some relief with its Insurance, a soothing, moisture-rich, herbal-based gel. This icy-blue skin saver is an essential item for any tanner looking to refresh sunburned skin and help prevent peeling and flaking while extending the life of your tan.

Insurance combines the moisturizing properties of three herbal extracts--calendula, evening primrose oil and natural sea botanicals--into one moisture-rich gel. Use it after a day of tanning, indoors or outdoors, to soothe sunburned skin or help extend the life of the tan. The formula also is ideal for wind-burned, chapped skin after a day spent in extreme temperatures.

The 6-ounce bottle retails for $16.

BreeZe Products

Soothe your skin with the new After Breeze Skin Saver from BreeZe Products. This revolutionary formula contains Calendula, a pure botanical extract used to treat burn victims in hospitals. After Breeze Skin Saver is formulated to treat sunburn and also contains aloe vera, lanolin, cucumber and oils extracted from eucalyptus and tea trees.

An absolute must for outdoor and indoor overexposure, After Breeze Skin Saver is available in a 8-ounce tube for $19.95 and a 2-ounce tube for $8.95.

Looking to intensify your tanning experience? Try Spiced Ice and Bronzing Spiced Ice, the revolutionary Tingle Cooling intensifying lotions from BreeZe Products™. Both formulas offer an intense wave of cold to hot tingle and then back to cold sensations. They also are fast-absorbing to create fast results. At level 8.5, they are the hottest in the BreeZe line to date.

The formulas are available in 8.75-ounce tubes. Spiced Ice retails for $59.95; Bronzing Spiced Ice retails for $64.95.

SUN Ergoline

After your tanning session or a day in the sun reach for SUN Ergoline's Bermuda Gold, an exclusive line of rehydrating lotions for indoor tanners. For the fastest, deepest tan ever, Bermuda Gold's Tanning Accelerator has maximum tyrosine to jumpstart the tanning process. The maximum tyrosine interacts with melanocytes to help create melanin and a natural tan. The core of this unique formula consists of super rehydrating rose hip to keep your skin hydrated while tanning.

Bermuda Gold's Rose Hip Aloe Rehydrator After Exposure Lotion is formulated with essential natural oils and pure aloe vera gel. Daily use restores moisture balance in your skin, rehydrates the basal cell area, minimizes the appearance of wrinkles and keeps skin soft, supple and tan.

The products are available in 8-ounce bottles and 2-ounce Bermuda Bullets.

Designer Skin

Go ahead and fake it with Designer Skin's new Big "O" sunless tanner, an exciting new self-tanning spray. The Big "O" stands for Oxidation, and the streak-free, sunless formula delivers immediate bronzing radiance that develops into a natural-looking, golden tan.

DHA, the sunless tanning agent, oxidizes with the natural proteins in your skin resulting in a luminous, summer glow. The Big "O" features a clean, fresh fragrance and a tinted formula for mistake-proof application.

So, go ahead, fake it. We'll never tell. The Big "O" is available in a 4-ounce bottle and retails for $19.99.

If you are looking to unleash your tanning potential, give BombShell™ 100XX Dark Tanning Bronzer a try. The formula is enriched with white tea extract, soy and CoQ-10 to create an "ultra-extreme" sizzle formula that yields unsurpassed tanning results. The formula's synergistic perfection of vitamins, botanicals and oils provides exceptional skincare.

BombShell is available in an 8.3-ounce bottle and retails for $56.

Body Invest

Want a gorgeous tan without the UV exposure? Try Body Invest's Amber Sun sunless dark tanning lotion that nourishes your skin with supple moisturizers and vitamins, while imparting a rich, dark golden tan with no "orange look." This streakless formula is enriched with essences of almond and raspberry.

Amber Sun's formula self-adjusts to your customer's natural color and begins to develop into golden glow in as little as three to four hours with maximum results visible after 24 hours. It is available in a 2-ounce bottle for $4.95 and an 8-ounce bottle for $16.95.

Pamper you skin with Body Invest's High Intensity Daily Moisturizer. The rich, creamy formula contains the company's exclusive Bioessential Complex™, an antioxidant-rich mix that includes encapsulated vitamin C, extracts of green tea, golden seal, aloe vera, cucumber, rosemary and St. John's wort. The acid-balanced formula smoothes even the driest of skin.

Scented with a light, clean unisex fragrance, it is available in a 2-ounce bottle for $2.50, an 8-ounce bottle for $9.95 and a 19-ounce pump for $16.95.