Can taking a shower or bath wash off your tan?

I think it does my aunt told me to never get in the shower after tanning.Can taking a shower or bath wash off your tan?
Both can.


My mother in law worked in a tanning salon for ever, and I helped her get her Smart Tan certificate.


They say that you should not come in contact with water for at least 8 hours after tanning.


Especially true when it comes to self tanners, as they only 'tan' the top layers of the skin. Showering sloughs of the 'tanned' skin.Can taking a shower or bath wash off your tan?
No -only if you have a sunless tan from a bottle -your supossed to wait 24 hours to shower - but a tan from the sun will not wash away -this is silly -once its there its there -
Grab a Brillo pad -scrub really hard-it may come off. Other than that-nope- it will not ';come off';. If there is too much sun as in -you have a burn- the redness may deteriorate with cool water. You remove the redness and not the tan.
Could be because hot water would be uncomfortable on skin made sensitive by exposture to the sun.At the end if the day a';tan'; is a ';burn'; and should be treated as such.
Only if it is fake, such as you used a product to make your skin darker. But a natural tan from the sun will not come off in the shower, but it will fade with time.
unfortunately yes...espesh if its fake
Yeah it can, one of my friends went too orange before her formal and got in the shower and scrubbed herself and got some of it off. It didnt all come off but it looked much better than it did before. So yes it can, but it doesnt like wash straight off, you really have to try to get it off.
you are shedding skin all the time, tan will fade, unless you cheated an had it sprayed on
in due course , if u use gram flour instead of soap
If it's a natural, sun-induced tan, I don't think soap and water can do any harm. But, if it's a spray-on tan, then maybe it would wash off a little.