To prepare your skin for the ultimate self-tanning experience, always begin with Fake Bake's Passion Fruit Body Polish. It smells good enough to eat! Fake Bake's SOAP-FREE Body Polish ingredients begin with Aloe juice & include natural loofah along with eleven other botanicals & essential oils. These help restore your skin's moisture balance while natural exfoliators gently slough away dead skin cells to achieve the softest, smoothest skin possible before tanning. This is an excellent body scrub to use as it will effectively but gently remove the dead skin cells as well as hydrate the skin so that you can get the most benefit & penetration from the self-tanning products. If you use another scrub that has a soap base or has a high alkaline or surfactant level, then it could leave a film or residue on the skin hindering the ability of the self-tanner to penetrate evenly. After a few days, your tan may not be uniform or even.