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What gives your skin color and how come you get suntans?

Updated: 8/18/2019
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melanin is what controls your skins ability to tan or to sunburn

The more melanin, the easier and darker you can tan. Albinos who have an absence of melanin do not tan, but they can sunburn very easily.

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