Last night I had a life experience I don't want to repeat: allergic reaction to fake tan.
I had crazy swollen, red, itchy feet and hands, red face, heart rate up, short of breath. Quite scary especially when it's something I've used so often. This exact BOTTLE I've used twice already and reacted on the third time. Luckily I had antihistamines to hand and realised pretty soon what was happening and got it off my skin, and had a friend (who's a nurse) getting me to check on things but pretty bloody scary there for a while
Has anyone had a similar reaction and gone on to be able to use tan again?
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Fake tan - allergic reaction
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it's horrible and scary eh!? I've had a few bad reactions to tanning and sunscreen products in the past. One sunscreen even put me in hospital!! So I'm super wary about what I use and try and do test patches now. I've had some luck with coola and ecotan products.. pretty $$ though. With coola you use to be able to get small samples but not too sure if you still can? Good luck
nothing different at all except the reaction. I did knock the mousse dispenser cap off the bottle but that shouldnt affect it, i could still dispense it and it looked and smelled the same.
I'd just showered before i applied it as i'd dyed my hair as well, which went fine, no reaction, so IDEK.
Super freaking scary, I was all set to get myself to urgent care (there's one a few moments from my house). Heart rate 129bpm at one stage and i was ON THE COUCH.
I just tried Coola helibabi but they don't do samples now. The range i use is normally fine for me and i LOVE it so i'll be gutted if it's over for me
I'd just showered before i applied it as i'd dyed my hair as well, which went fine, no reaction, so IDEK.
Super freaking scary, I was all set to get myself to urgent care (there's one a few moments from my house). Heart rate 129bpm at one stage and i was ON THE COUCH.
I just tried Coola helibabi but they don't do samples now. The range i use is normally fine for me and i LOVE it so i'll be gutted if it's over for me
oh btw i messaged the company in question just to see if they could offer insight and they were AMAZING.
Explained that it's possible for allergies to develop at random because of the chemicals etc used, made sure I knew to patch test when i tried again, and offered to replace my brand new, as yet unused bottle of tan, even after i patch test with it, with something else from the range if i react again. Impressed when they only have my word it happened.
Explained that it's possible for allergies to develop at random because of the chemicals etc used, made sure I knew to patch test when i tried again, and offered to replace my brand new, as yet unused bottle of tan, even after i patch test with it, with something else from the range if i react again. Impressed when they only have my word it happened.
That is really scary. Since you also dyed your hair, I would be patch testing that too before you use it again. Severe allergic reactions to hair dye can occur even hours after you've used it and may affect other parts of your body, not necessarily your scalp. It can also happen out of the blue after using the same dye for years. (I need to follow my own advice hair - I never patch test)
wow what a good company to deal with!!
the company I contacted about mine were so bad.. they had had a lot of bad media about their product though. I knew it was my skin reacting with their product.. most people are fine to use but I wrote them and said they should advise to do a test patch and also allergy advise.... which they totally do now so that's a win.
Hope you get better soon! It's pretty scary.
the company I contacted about mine were so bad.. they had had a lot of bad media about their product though. I knew it was my skin reacting with their product.. most people are fine to use but I wrote them and said they should advise to do a test patch and also allergy advise.... which they totally do now so that's a win.
Hope you get better soon! It's pretty scary.
Interesting... after a terrifying patch test last night I’ve just done a ‘boobs up, bum down’ tan (aka a winter version) with no reaction. So it was either the bottle, the hair dye or a combination of the two clashing. Which is ridiculous as I’ve had them on simultaneously a bunch of times. Have a four day conference starting tomorrow so I’ll save a dye test for next week but at least I’m not condemned to be permanently pale!
So since the reaction I’ve identified that it was a hair dye reaction not a tan one. I’ve done a bunch of research and switched to a semi permanent as there is a lower chance of reaction. I did three allergy tests in 48 hours but was still terrified dying my hair this morning. I took every precaution I could - wrapped my neck, oiled my ears and hairline, didn’t touch the dye without gloves, rinsed it out totally with my head hanging over the drain (usually I shower it out) and I took a prophylactic antihistamine before I started after checking in with a nurse friend. I want a darker shade but as an experiment, it worked and I’ll try it again. Action plan is to go for semis (and allergy tests) and consider growing the grey( which is a silvery white) out into a grey-black ombré eventually
I'm glad you figured out what caused the reaction Trudi, at least it didn't happen this time but it must be a pain having to take all those precautions, although I'm probably just lazy and should be careful too. I had a bad reaction to something I got on my face from work last week. It swelled up, had a raised red rash all over and burnt so bad. I looked like a snake shedding its skin lol. I'm pretty sure it was hand sanitiser I was using then accidentally rubbed my face. Horrible!
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