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  Posted by Anonymous on September 18, 2017 at 10:41 am

  Hi all!

  I would like to read further about tanning formulations. Is there ingredients other than DHA and Eryteulose?
  how to make a successful formulation?

  Gunther replied 6 years, 7 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  Microformulation

  Member

  September 18, 2017 at 12:21 pm

  https://knowledge.ulprospector.com/413/pcc-stabilizing-sunless-tanning-formulations/

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  Bill_Toge

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  September 18, 2017 at 9:52 pm

  to make successful formulations consistently, it takes years of practical experience and a solid theoretical grounding in materials science

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  Gunther

  Member

  June 9, 2018 at 5:24 pm

  @Olivae even if you find active ingredients that actually self tan skin,
  they are experimental = unproven, both for efficacy and for side effects.

  The chemicals may prove hard to find and expensive, too.
  Some of them are so new that they don’t even have proper chemical names, like
  HG 9-91-01 SIK inhibitor
  https://www.cell.com/cell-reports/fulltext/S2211-1247(17)30684-8

  Right now only Forskolin seems safe enough to be worth trying. 
  https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3857937/

  Some bodybuilders even inject tanning enhancers like Melanotan-2, but I don’t think any of that will be safe for an OTC product.

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