From hopelessly pale to healthy tanned with natural sun tanning

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Yesterday I wrote about vitamin D and why it is so important. So today I’ll continue on how to get a healthy vitamin D intake through sunshine.

A healthy sun tan is one you get without sunscreen and without sunburn.

And it’s surprisingly easy.

Let’s start with how I know this works.
I am blond, I’ve got blue eyes and I used to burn if I spent more than 1 hour in the sun without sunscreen. As a result I was always really pale. Well not always, I sometimes got a lovely pink sunburn on certain parts of my body. My sunburnt skin then peeled off which made me look like a white/pink leopard. I went through all this only to return to my regular white.
I used enormous amounts of sunscreen and after sun.

When I started learning more and more about health I stopped buying lotions including sunscreen. Now I simply had to learn to sunbathe the natural way.
The result is fantastic. Today I’m naturally tanned. I get a healthy tan that stays for a long time. I don’t even get ghost-white anymore during winter. And best of all, I don’t need to worry about the sun anymore. It’s there, I go out and I tan. That’s it!

How I do it

1. Look at your skin: The trick is to expose your skin without sun protection for just as long as your skin can take it. This time will be different for each person. It will even vary for different parts of your body. I for example have to cover the skin under my eyes and my chest long before the rest of the body reacts. Expose you skin to the sun until it starts to react on the sunshine, maybe until it becomes a little bit pink. The time that you can expose your skin to the sun will get longer as your tan gets deeper.
2. Regular exposure: The more often you expose you skin to the sun the faster you will tan. If possible say in the sun of 15 min or so everyday and you will maintain your tan as well as get your daily dose of vitamin D.
3. Foods that help you tan: When you tan you need extra antioxidants to protect you skin from premature aging. Beta carotene turns into the antioxidant vitamin-A in the body. Carrots are rich in beta carotene and they also contain natural orange color that will make your tan look deeper. Another carotenoid is lycopene which is very powerful antioxidant. Tomatoes are especially rich in lycopene. Heat up these vegetables and the vitamin will become even better absorbed in the body.
4. Protection: When your skin has had enough sunshine the best thing you can do is to get out of the sun or cover your skin. A hat will protect your face. Over sized sunglasses will protect the sensitive skin under your eyes. Clothes protect your body. For children or extra sensitive skin use sun protective clothing.
5. First aid when it goes wrong: If you get a sunburn aloe vera gel is a great, gentle and effective product that will help the skin recover fast.

• Aloe Vera, the skin healer (0)