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Painting my skin with Ratskin Flesh for a more tan look. Should I go with Agrax Earthshade, Reikland Fleshshade, Seraphim Sepia, or another?

Reikland Fleshshade. Agrax is a little too dirty for skin in my opinion, Sepia too light.

I recently painted up a unit of Chaos Marauders and for their skin I used a base of Bugman's Glow, layered over it with Cadian Fleshtone, and then washed with Reikland. Didn't look too bad and was pretty quick; works for me because I'm not very good with skin and faces.

I tried washing with Sepia over Cadia one time when I was out of Reikland. It came out looking halfway between overly bronze skin and literal bronze. I'd recommend against that one. Agrax might look good on more African style skin, but if you're going for Caucasian style light skin I'd definitely go with Reikland.

My go-to skin recipe: Vallejo Cork Brown (applied as a base colour), and simple Strong Tone dip (though I imagine you could use the bottle wash option as well).

You could always just mix them.

or do thinned layers and go over them twice.

or target wash areas like shading shadows with earthshade