Why Body Bronze?

Slough off your dull, pasty winter skin and step into spring with a just-back-from-the-tropics glow with a bronzing treatment from Le Petit Spa.

Using an all natural ingredient to “bronze” winter skin goodbye, the body bronzing system works because of a natural chemical reaction with amino acids in your skin and DHA, a natural sugar that when in contact with oxygen, turns brown.

No streaking and a completely natural golden tan that lasts for about a week is achieved in just under an hour at Le Petit Spa.

Why Body Bronze?

Two words: Skin Cancer. The sun causes each skin cells DNA to mutate when it is damaged by the sun. Eventually, this mutation may turn into skin cancer. A sunless body bronzing treatment does not harm the skin like the sun can and does not contain chemicals.

What is DHA?

DHA is a sugar that reacts with your skin’s natural amino acids and turns your skin brown. It was discovered by a doctor specializing in diabetic treatments, when his patients were given doses of this sugar and came in contact with their skin, it turned their skin brown.

Benefits of a sunless tanning treatment:

• No sun damage caused to the skin by the sun
  


• Safe, natural color
  


• Moisturizing
  


• Can be used all year long
  


• Skin is exfoliated, smooth and refined.

Does this treatment protect your skin from the sun?

No, this treatment does not contain any SPF in the product. You should always wear a sunscreen on your skin; even when your skin is tanned.

What causes skin cancer: tanning or burning your skin?

The two harmful types of rays to the human skin are UVA and UVB. Think of them this way: UVA stands for “aging”, these are the rays that tan your skin and go deeper into the skin. These rays also are responsible for causing wrinkles as they break down collagen in your skin. UVB stands for “burning” and have been linked to causing skin cancer. Although a burn is extremely more damaging to your skin than a tan, both of these forms of skin damage are damaging lead to premature aging of the skin, pigmentation, and may even lead to skin cancer.

Visit our Tanning page for more information on the Guinot Body Bronzing service at Le Petit Spa.

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