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Unhealthy beauty trend Coca Cola as a new tanning agent?
For years, a peculiar beauty trend has been around: Coca Cola is lubricated before sunbathing on the skin, because this should accelerate the tanning process and also provide a particularly attractive complexion. Health experts, however, warn against using the soft drink as a tanning agent.
Coca Cola as a tanning agent
For most Europeans, tanned skin is considered a beauty ideal. However, health experts repeatedly point out that the tan achieved by sunbathing is not healthy. Finally, it is important to protect the skin from strong UV rays in the summer to prevent sunburn and minimize the risk of skin cancer. A beauty trend that has been going on for years is already worrying medical professionals: some people actually use Coca Cola because they want it to turn brown faster and achieve a more attractive skin tone. However, the soft drink can be dangerous for the skin.
There are people who use Coca Cola to turn brown faster. Dermatologists, however, warn of the trend. The soft drink can be dangerous for the skin. As a sunscreen are creams with high SPF. (Image: contrastwerkstatt / fotolia.com) Avoid sunburn
According to dermatologists, sunbathing should always prevent the skin from burning, as every single sunburn is added to your own skin account. This increases the risk of skin cancer.
When sunscreen, it depends on the skin type. The lighter the skin, the more protection is needed. In addition, one should orientate oneself on the UV index, which can be called up daily up-to-date on-line.
To prevent sunburn, it is important not to lose creaming. In addition, it is advised to spend a lot in the shade.
Soft drink can be dangerous for the skin
What does not help, however, is to lubricate his body with Coca Cola. Actually, one should think that this need not be pointed out, but there are actually people who do this in the hopes of getting a more beautiful complexion and generally turning brown faster.
Coca Cola as a tanning agent, according to the US women's magazine "Allure" also became a trend because the drink contained a caramel-colored dye that can contribute to a bronze skin tone.
Dermatologist Joshua Zeichner of Mount Sinai Hospital in New York warns in the magazine about the peculiar trend: "Although some people think Coca Cola can speed up the tan, it can actually be dangerous and I recommend keeping it."
The clinician explained, "Applying to the skin may cause temporary dimming or staining of the skin, but because sodas contain acid, it may cause the skin to slough off, resulting in increased UV penetration into the skin. Ultimately, this increases the risk of sunburn. "
The dermatologist recommends that instead of lemonade you use a sunscreen that has at least SPF 30.
Meanwhile, the manufacturer of the soft drink has responded to the strange trend and writes on its website in response to the question of whether you can use the drink as a sunscreen:
"As much as we love Coca-Cola, we would not recommend using it this way. It has no sun protection factor at all - it's a drink! "(Ad)