Why Tanning Pills Don’t Work
Years ago, the feature Sunless Tanning: Facts and Myths attacked the effectiveness of tanning pills.
But tanning pills have proven to be the hardest sunless tanning myth to kill. Nutritional supplements, or tanning pills, that “promote” tanning proliferate, and ads for them are everywhere.
There are only two things that matter in the production of melanin: your genetics and your degree of exposure to ultraviolet radiation. Nutrition simply does not play a part for the normal, well nourished individual.
To make this clear, I’ll go over the facts of tanning [melanocytes - melanogenesis], describe three medical conditions that negatively effect tanning, summarize drugs that can affect melanogenesis, and, finally, analyze three typical tanning pills.