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'Sun to Drink'

  • 02-06-2009 9:06pm
    #1
    Posy
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 27,830 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    Anyone tried this
    http://beaut.ie/blog/?p=8856
    or know anywhere in Dublin to buy it? Looks disgusting/interesting. :o


Comments

  • #2
    valery
    Closed Accounts Posts: 443 ✭✭valery


    never heard of it :confused: can you be a bit more specific...sorry;)


  • #3
    Posy
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 27,830 Mod ✭✭✭✭Posy


    Does the link not work?
    This is some copy and paste-

    For use before you jet off on your holliers, Academie’s Sun To Drink product is the newest member of their Bronz’ Express range and is a ‘nutriseutical’ that you down in the run up to sun exposure. Using beta carotene as its active ingredient, it works to prepare your melanocytes (the pigment-laden cells which supply melanin, the doofer than defines the colour of your skin) for the rays to come and helps you to tan quicker. The theory is, you then need to spend less time exposing yourself to harmful UV rays to come away with the colour you desire.

    Sun to Drink comes in little glass vials that you snap to open (you need to break both ends to release the orange liquid inside) and it can be drunk as-is or diluted with water. It’s got a mango-y-organge-y flavour that’s not dissimilar to Berocca or a fizzy multivitamin - not delicious by any manner of means, but perfectly drinkable.

    The period you use it for is determined by your skintype - so if you’re super-duper pale and sensitive, take one a day for 20 days before you go and for ten days while you’re away; if you’re fair, down it for 15 days before and five days during your holiday, and if you’re dark-skinned and tan easily, then drink it up for ten days in advance.


  • #4
    valery
    Closed Accounts Posts: 443 ✭✭valery


    thanks for the info. have to ask, do you have a degree in biology ?..
    you seem to have an amazing amount of gen. on the subject , anyway
    hope you get the product and the tan you deserve :cool:


  • #5
    northdubgal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 744 ✭✭✭northdubgal


    valery wrote: »
    thanks for the info. have to ask, do you have a degree in biology ?..
    you seem to have an amazing amount of gen. on the subject , anyway
    hope you get the product and the tan you deserve :cool:

    :p :rolleyes: it's copied and pasted from a website, the OP didnt write this herself... :rolleyes:

    I have heard mixed reviews on this, some people say its very similar to those tablets you take (cant remember which ones they are on about tho)...


  • #6
    valery
    Closed Accounts Posts: 443 ✭✭valery


    copied and pasted from the website ? Im still on L plates and never realised
    what that meant .....oh I feel such a ninny. thanks re. reply and I will
    pay more attention in future. :confused:


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  • #7
    MissFlitworth
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,057 ✭✭✭MissFlitworth


    Caderyn wrote: »
    Does the link not work?
    Using beta carotene as its active ingredient, it works to prepare your melanocytes (the pigment-laden cells which supply melanin, the doofer than defines the colour of your skin) for the rays to come and helps you to tan quicker.

    hmmmm- I have a feeling the beta carotene is more dying you orange from the inside out than preparing your 'melanocytes' for anything


  • #8
    Das Kitty
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 17,231 Mod ✭✭✭✭Das Kitty


    MissFlitworth wrote: »
    hmmmm- I have a feeling the beta carotene is more dying you orange from the inside out than preparing your 'melanocytes' for anything

    That's what I was thinking, it must be beta-carotene.


  • #9
    lubie76
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,152 ✭✭✭lubie76


    I wouldn't touch beta-carotene for the purposes of tanning. A friend of mine used to take the tablets before holidays and used to come back ridiculously orange. We told her it wasn't a nice look at all and when she stopped taking them she had a much nicer color. They may suit certain skin types but defo not for Irish skins.


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