Sunburn Relief – A Perfect Sunburn Remedy If you have a minor sunburn and you need some mild sunburn relief, take an ibuprofen and put some coco butter on your skin and you will feel much better. However, if you have a major sunburn, you need some major sunburn relief and you need it fast. Here’s the best way to get some quick sunburn relief. First, start with some ibuprofen. This not only helps with the pain but it reduces swelling. Sunburn will cause the skin tissue to swell a lot. Reducing the swelling will help reduce the pain and will reduce the tissue damage that sunburn does to your skin. A Soothing Bath For Sunburn Relief The next step is a special bath to reduce the heat in your skin and to promote the healing process. Fill a tub with cool (not cold) water. If it’s too warm it will hurt. If it’s too cold, it will cause shock to your body. Remember, if you are severely burned, your body is likely near the point of being in shock. Don’t add more stress to your body. Once you are in the tub, you can run more cold water and slowly reduce the temperature. It’s important that you add several items to the bath water. Here’s the list and the purpose for each. 1) A cup of vinegar. Apple cider vinegar is best but white is OK too. This will lower the Ph of the water and sooth the burning sensation. 2) A cup of baking soda. This will moderate the Ph of the water and also add a soothing mineral content to the water. 3) One half cup of Epsom salts. This adds additional minerals to the water and is very soothing to the sunburn. It will also help with the healing of the skin. 4) One cup of oatmeal. If you can quickly cook the oatmeal before adding it to the water, this is even better. The oatmeal is extremely soothing. 5) Boil about 4 cups of water and add some tea bags. Make a very strong tea solution and add it to the bath water. The tannic acid in the tea will help remove the burning sensation. Once the bath is ready, soak for 15 or 20 minutes. When you get out, you can leave the water in the tub because you might want to take another dip for additional sunburn relief about a half hour later. This initial bath should help take away a lot of the pain but there is no harm in taking several more baths if it continues to help. Of course, when you get out of the tub, be very gentle with the towel. Pat yourself dry and maybe even drip dry. No rubbing with a towel. Burn Treatment & Moisturizer After you get out of the tub, you will still need to treat the burn. The very best thing to use is hydrocortisone cream. However, if you want something more natural, aloe works almost as well. But a word of caution about using aloe vera products – be sure that it’s 100% aloe and nothing else. A lot of products contain alcohol and this will dry out your skin. Of course, if you have an aloe vera plant, you can use the gel-like material inside the leaves and it works great. You will also need to moisturize your skin. This not only helps the healing process but it can actually help with the pain as much as the aloe or hydrocortisone. The best product to use is coco butter or coconut oil (same thing). Apply this liberally every hour or two. Even as the pain goes away, use the coconut oil a couple of times daily to aid your skin’s healing process and to reduce peeling. It’s a fact that after any serious sunburn you are going to have some amount of peeling. But, regular use of coconut oil can keep the peeling to a minimum. Nourish Your Skin From The Inside A soon as you get the burn, you need to start drinking as much water as you can. A burn over large parts of your skin will severely dehydrate your body. As mentioned, your body will be close to a state of shock when you get a severe burn. Drinking large amounts of water will help your body cope with what it considers a crisis situation. Over the next several days, pay particular attention to keeping well hydrated. This will not only helps your body in general but will also aid in the repair of the skin tissue. The final thing that you need to do to promote healing is to give you body what it needs on the inside. As your skin tissue heals and regenerates, there are several nutrients that your body will use abundantly. Help your body along by giving it what it needs. Starting with a healthy diet, it would be good to take some additional supplements. Vitamins A, C, and E, along with zinc and selenium will help reduce the free radical damage that the sun does to your skin. The final supplement that you should consider is some source of Omega-3 oils to reduce systemic inflammation. Even a mild sunburn will cause substantial tissue swelling. Reducing this swelling by taking an Omega-3 supplement is a great idea. My recommendation is an enteric coated fish oil capsule. The enteric coating will prevent that fishy aftertaste. In summary, sunburn relief comes from addressing the severe initial pain, soothing the on-going moderate pain over the next few days and promoting healing of the sunburn through nutrition and topical moisturizers. And, hopefully, avoiding too much peeling. And, it’s obvious that the best sunburn relief is sunburn protection. Think SPF when enjoying the great outdoors. Related Articles Itchy Bug Bites I’ve found a fast and easy way to stop the itch with something that almost everyone has in their home. Cold Sore Outbreaks and My Cold Sore Miracle Cold sores are curable. I cured mine and you can too. This cold sore remedy works fast. Cold Sore Update - More Good News! One last outbreak. Find out what happened. Ceramides for Skin Care Modern science for your skin care. Skin Care – How to Soothe Dry Itchy Skin Dry itchy skin can be cured. If you suffer from dry itchy skin, you need to read about these skin care miracles. |
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