Nasal tanning sprays are taking over TikTok – but read this before searching for one
ok.co.ukThere have been some brilliant hacks born and raised in TikTok, then there are some that, quite frankly, need to be chucked into the virtual bin.
A new trend, mostly coming from US-based users, is a “sunless skin tanning” method that sees tan lovers using a nasal spray to get a full-body glow.
As you might imagine, experts aren’t thrilled at this particular trend taking off. So, what even is a nasal tanning spray? The bottle resembles an allergen spritz, but rather than containing sniffle-fighting ingredients, some of these sprays contain an ingredient called melanotan.This claims to stimulate your body into producing melanin, and since melanin is the pigment that determines skin colour, inhaling melanotan is *supposed* to make the user’s skin look more tanned with continued use.
Other sprays, as you’ll find out shortly from our expert, don’t even feature that as a key ingredient. Instead, they use an active meant for purely topical self-tanning use.Tut, tut.
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