Nasal tanning sprays, or nasal tanners, are unregulated and potentially unsafe products that could be linked to skin cancer. These products can produce nasty side effects, such as nausea and vomiting, high Hannah Tittensor and her boyfriend Ben Dunlop have been injecting themselves with an illegal tanning drug called Melanotan for three years. On top of that, they use sunbeds regularly and slather themselves Your body already makes a hormone that tells your skin to tan. Melanotan 2 is a synthetic peptide engineered to mimic that hormone but in a version that's more potent and longer lasting than Figure 4 from Changes of melanocytic lesions inducedby Melanotan injections and sun bed use ina teenage patient with FAMMM syndrome Semantic Scholar Dangerous' tanning products promoted by influencers BBC News