Review: Australian Glow One Hour Express Self Tan Mousse
price: $25 on Amazon
type: a lightweight foaming mousse with a dark golden brown color guide
product call-outs: cruelty-free, organic ingredients, and vegan-friendly
key ingredients: aloe to hydrate, green tea leaf extract for its anti-aging properties, and jojoba seed oil to reduce redness
texture: a fluffy foam
dry time: in just five minutes
scent: odorless…but actually!
(hot) take on the tan: Just as the name suggests, Australian Glow products are made in Australia, so given that, I knew the dark, one hour express self tanner was going to be good. (Australians know a thing or two about doing self tanning right.) But I didn’t realize it was going to be this good. The mousse leaves you about two shades darker in one hour or a dark, golden brown shade (around five shades darker) in just four hours. In addition to the amazing tan, the mousse is also odorless — which is rare in the self tanning world where a lot of products claim to be odorless but you can still smell the DHA as it’s developing. But with Australian Glow, the only indication that I had actually applied self tanner was the dark brown color guide. Another major perk of this tanner? It claims to be fast drying and it actually is. I was able to to put my (loose-fitting) clothes on about five minutes after application.
how we applied: Applied two layers all over the body (excluding the face) right before bed, let develop while sleeping (about nine hours), and then rinsed the color guide off in the morning for a super dark look.
Australian Glow One Hour Express Self Tan Mousse
A dark, rapid-developing mousse.
brand background: Australian-based Australian Glow features a range of deep self tanners all with natural, organic, vegan-friendly ingredients. All products are odorless, streak-free, and are packaged in bottles made from recycled ocean plastic. What’s more is that the brand also offers its solutions in refillable bags, so you can keep your original bottle and just pour the contents from the refillable bag in when you need more tanner. A brand that is sustainable and gives amazing results? We are all the way here for it.