You’ll also want to make sure to wash with a gentle cleanser after you tan, make sure your skin is always moisturized, and avoid using products with intense actives like retinol and acne treatments, which can dissolve the color on your face or body. While self-tanners for your body and self-tanners for your face have overlapping ingredients, David Kim, MD, a board-certified dermatologist at Idriss Dermatology in New York City, suggests separate products for separate parts of your body. For our review of the best self-tanners, we enlisted the help of multiple editors, writers, contributors, and experts we've interviewed for the piece—who all have different skin tones, concerns, types, and desired outcomes (i.e., subtle versus dramatic).