Tanning Tablets – Which are the best and safest ones to use?

A tanned skin is considered to be a beautiful and enviable phenomenon, and which sees us spend long hours sunbathing or lying in solariums and suntan beds. However, a better, affordable and timely option exists in the use of tanning tablets.

Using these pills means that we are no longer susceptible to the health risks which are associated with the burning effects of the ultraviolet B type rays and the overexposure to the skin-tanning UV A type rays. With today’s busy schedules not everyone can afford the luxury of using a couple of free hours to go down to the beach in order to take in the sun rays, and worse, the UVA rays are at their optimum only in the early morning hours. However, with tanning pills you no longer have to detest winter just because the little tan you had achieved will slowly disappear with the sun.

Tanning tablets are available in two main varieties, with the first variety of pills being rich in tyrosine. By supplementing with tyrosine the body’s natural tanning process becomes optimized because this amino acid is converted to melanin which is the body’s brown skin pigment. The second variety of tanning pills are rich in certain pigments, and which when introduced to the body impart a golden brown colour on the skin’s epidermis. In this second category we have the canthaxanthin and the beta carotene-based tanning pills. All these options are in line with people’s desire for natural tanning products rather than the synthetic types.

Canthaxanthin-based Tanning tablets, despite their effectiveness in producing a natural tan, carry a side-effect known as canthaxanthin retinopathy, and which is a disorder of the eye that is characterized by yellow spots developing on the retina. Beta carotene-based tanning pills remain to be the best alternative because their side-effect, a bright brown colour in the skin’s epidermis, is indeed the tanning phenomenon we are after.

Tyrosine-based tanning supplements are effective because the body requires this amino acid for the synthesis of melanin. Melanin is generated from tyrosine and thus supplementing its levels ensures that we can achieve a deeper tan. Tyrosine supplements also contain copper which is crucial in the synthesis of tyrosine to melanin, and it is as such handily supplemented because it usually is deficient in most diets.

Tyrosine and carotenoid-based tanning pills are certainly the best tan products in relation to the pour-on type products whose active ingredient is dihydroxyacetone. This colourless sugar interacts with the dead cells on the epidermis and thus resulting in tanning effect which last for about five to seven days. This effect is only temporary because the skin’s cells including the tanned ones wear off on every given day. Even worse, using these products leaves unsightly patches on the skin. As such, with the use of tanning tablets we can tan our skins all year round including during the much-dreaded winter period.