Barrier creams and moisturisers for spray tans?

[Beautician29]

Im currently using the st tropez moisturiser for areas such as elbows, knees, ankles and hands then using vaseline for the soles of feet, so was wondering what everyone else was using and if anyone could reccomend any barrier creams and moisturisers for spray tanning, thanks x

 

[steve@nouvatan]

To be honest any moisturiser or barrier cream will do the job we did have some made up and bottled in a dispenser but it wasnt a great seller:irked:
We always tell it how it is at Nouva ,As our motto for life is why lie when the truth will do !!
We get ours from Sallys and tell our clients to do the same its just a basic non oil based moisturizer its cheap but brilliant!!

 

[Beautician29]

Whats the name of the one you use from sallys? is it oil free?

 

[Julia Moran]

Are you mobile or salon based?
Barrier cream is not the most exciting product on your equipment list but i always think that image is really important. To turn up at a clients home as a mobile or when a client enters your salon for a treatment, they are judging you straight away. You obviously want to be professional and please the client with the treatment so they recommend you, as we know that that is the best form of advertising (and cheapest). So the moral of this post is, if you commit to a brand then use their range of prep products, recommend their retail and promote your trearments using their marketing material. That way you come across as a true professional and not someone with a bag full of products from all over the place. x

 

[collin]

If your technique and clients pre tan exfoliation is done properly there generally speaking is no need to use any barrier creams...which have a tendency if used over zealously to create tide lines if your not careful once the tan has started to develop.

Keep a tub of buff wipes handy for those few customers who dont follow your pre tan prep regime's.

If you are an ardent barrier cream user any good moisturiser will do the trick however as already quiet rightly pointed out by Julia it is important to show professionalism to your client and sometimes worthwhile considering using a barrier cream as supplied by the brand you use.

HTH :hug:

 

[Miss Pink23]

I agree that it does look professional to cream a 'matching' barrier cream to the brand you are using but some do not offer this service. I use good old Aqueous cream and it works a treat, none of my clients mind and to be honest are not that interested as long as their tan ends up looking great.
I use Stickey feet pads as find they look professional and you dont then have to worry about creamy or sticky feet from creams but especially vaseline.
hth's
x

 

[mbbeauty]

hey. i use the he-shi moisturiser when spraying he-shi tan and the Fakebake smoothie oil on the elbows, knees and feet when spraying fake bake. he-shi do a facial gel. i find it excellant to use on very dry hands and feet when doin a spray tan, works a treat cause the spray can really destroy very dry hands and feet.

 

[steve@nouvatan]

Just to make the point again about creaming hands & feet with a non oil based moisturisers, we don't advocate spending £10+ on a branded barrier cream/moisturiser as its just the same as you could buy from Sallys and other trade counters. We do however think the dispenser should look at little more streamline so we do rec a pump dispenser.
We feel this honest, and frankly non eliteist approach is fair and lets face it we all want to make the most profit from a treatment, and if alls the same does it really matter who's barrier cream you are using????
And why most of us use moisturisers is to stop the DHA being absorbed into the dry areas such as knuckles, knees and elbows, which go too dark if a moisturisers isn't used, regardless of how much you exfoliate those areas.

 

[angelina221]

I always get clients to apply moisturiser to elbows, knees, backs of the ankles, toes and inbetween fingers and any other particular dry areas they have.
Tan does grab at dry patches and can make it look darker. A little moisturiser(not loads!), helps even it out. I've never had anyone have 'tide' marks and i've done hundreds and hundreds of tans and this works well for me.
I also advise clients to use an oil-free moisturiser.
I object to paying out for expensive moisturisers when the cheaper ones do just the same. Same as i would object to paying 10 times more for a mob cap just because it had the company name on!
My clients like that i am honest with them and don't try to sell them something at an extortionate price! Probably why i get so many tips :lol:
I supply my clients with; sticky feet, mob cap, disposable underwear, make-up remover wipes, lip salve and moisturiser. I charge £12.50 for a tan and i make a very nice profit from that so i'm happy, clients are happy and Nouvatan are happy cos i buy lots of solution!
I retail soap, mitts and 'tan in a can' so i still make money from retail.

 

[collin]

If the spray tan technique adopted is correct there is no need for the use of any moisturisers....cheap or expensive ones :hug:

 

[Urban Geek]

I charge £12.50 for a tan and i make a very nice profit from that so i'm happy, clients are happy and Nouvatan are happy cos i buy lots of solution!
I retail soap, mitts and 'tan in a can' so i still make money from retail.

I am sure your clients appreciate very much your honest but £12.50 for a spray tan in a salon surely is a give away. Surely 15minutes of your time is worth that alone. I have not even came across mobile therapists doing tans for £12.50. You are doing yourself a dis-service Angie, not to mention the rest of the tanning industry.

I consider you as a person with good business sense who takes pride in the services you offer and gives a high-end service for all your treatments so I don't understand why you don't offer industry standard prices.

 

[collin]

I am sure your clients appreciate very much your honest but £12.50 for a spray tan in a salon surely is a give away. Surely 15minutes of your time is worth that alone. I have not even came across mobile therapists doing tans for £12.50. You are doing yourself a dis-service Angie, not to mention the rest of the tanning industry.

I consider you as a person with good business sense who takes pride in the services you offer and gives a high-end service for all your treatments so I don't understand why you don't offer industry standard prices.

Couldn't agree more with these sentiments.....underselling treatments like this has a downward spiral effect on prices consumers are willing to pay and has a serious devaluation knock on effect to other salons who offer similar treatments.

Its easy to work for nothing however it pay's to think smart and work less for more...within reason of course :hug:

 

[angelina221]

I am sure your clients appreciate very much your honest but £12.50 for a spray tan in a salon surely is a give away. Surely 15minutes of your time is worth that alone. I have not even came across mobile therapists doing tans for £12.50. You are doing yourself a dis-service Angie, not to mention the rest of the tanning industry.

I consider you as a person with good business sense who takes pride in the services you offer and gives a high-end service for all your treatments so I don't understand why you don't offer industry standard prices.

We are trying to steer people away from using sunbeds. To charge them £25 for something that takes me literally 5 mins to do the actual spray, for something that lasts 7-10 days, is in my opinion not going to achieve that.
You'd be surprised how many clients i have that have stopped using sunbeds and come to me to have spray tans instead. I have over 250 clients just on spray tanning alone.
Prices for spray tanning are coming down and i do think it depends on what area you are in. A salon near me charges £9.
I can make £40-£60 an hour just doing spray tans-and that's pure profit.
I've had to turn clients away before as i just haven't had time to do them. I am happy that i am converting clients who use sunbeds, they are happy that it doesn't cost them a fortune and eveyrbody wins.
I don't think i am doing myself a dis-service at all. In fact i think i am doing a great service and my clients would agree

 

[kennedia]

I have to agree with Collin on this one. I don't use any barrier creams, and I teach my students not to either. If proper prep is carried out and a good spraying technique is used (one which takes into account these dryer areas) then I really don't feel it is necessary at all. Less product and less time = more profit, which has to be a good thing.

 

[Jenx]

I don't use any moisturisers or barrier creams - unless the client has extreme dry patches. Also don't use sticky feet as when I tried them out, we couldn't get them off lol, left a lovely mess in the clients feet (thank goodness it was friends lol). I just put down a fresh towel for each client - had no orange soles so far xx

 

[Urban Geek]

We are trying to steer people away from using sunbeds. To charge them £25 for something that takes me literally 5 mins to do the actual spray, for something that lasts 7-10 days, is in my opinion not going to achieve that.
You'd be surprised how many clients i have that have stopped using sunbeds and come to me to have spray tans instead. I have over 250 clients just on spray tanning alone.
Prices for spray tanning are coming down and i do think it depends on what area you are in. A salon near me charges £9.
I can make £40-£60 an hour just doing spray tans-and that's pure profit.
I've had to turn clients away before as i just haven't had time to do them. I am happy that i am converting clients who use sunbeds, they are happy that it doesn't cost them a fortune and eveyrbody wins.
I don't think i am doing myself a dis-service at all. In fact i think i am doing a great service and my clients would agree

It sure is a great crusade you are on Angie and I admire you for it. Well done xx:hug:

As a new business, I can't afford not to make as much money as I possibly can, although I do still give my clients a great service and great value for money. I find I get clients converting from sunbeds to spray tanning regardless of what I charge and not because spray tanning is cheap or as cheap but because they know the hazards of the sunbeds. It is also win-win.

 

[Beautician29]

Got a few points to reply to so....
1. Im mobile not salon based, i probably would need to charge more if i was in a salon enviroment.

2. What if the clients do not prep properly, how am i suposed to know, i feel that i do need to use barrier creams just incase they havent otherwise it looks like a bad tan done by me.

3. I also charge low at £12 but this is also more expensive than most places in my area.

4. I make a good enough profit on them as i dont use disposables such as sticky feet (small black towels are good enough), shower cap instead of a disposable which people think looks really nice as its black and cute and people wear there own underwear as when i did the training everyone commented on how uncomfotable disposables were and never has anyone complained or stopped coming to me after one tan. If i did use disposables this would mean i would need to put the price of my tans up...meaning i may loose clients.

5. The spray tan i use does not have any products with it that would be worth selling on and i doubt very much they would buy a more expensive product when they can have the same kind of product at a lot cheaper price.

6. I only started tanning late last year and already have a good client base with good comments going around about my tans and the good care i take of them "just by applying barrier creams" apparently a lot of people in my areas just chuck them the bottle of moisturiser and ask them to apply it themselves? Not my kind of client care.

 

[Sabrina29]

Steve can you advise what the name is of the oil free mosituriser which you get from sally's? I had a look today for it and couldn't find? And just to clarify, is it ok to use this one both as a moisturiser after spray tan and to also put on the skin as a barrier type cream before tan in problem areas such as hands and feet?

 

[steve@nouvatan]

Hi Sabrina, I will get Dawn to PM you with the name of the moisturiser.
Or give her a call.

 

[Beautician29]

Hi Sabrina, I will get Dawn to PM you with the name of the moisturiser.
Or give her a call.

Please could you get her to private message me with the name as well, i had a look in sallys today and only saw one cream that i thought it could of been but wasnt sure. Thanks