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| Enjoying the sun is great, but you can't say the same thing of sunburn. |
Summer is when you should be having fun–-not suffering with sunburn. Hopefully, you won’t find yourself in this predicament. If you do, then I wanted to share some additional home remedies that can help take your pain away.
Some time in the water does wonders to ease pain. Therefore, you might want to try soaking in cool bath water with two cups of apple cider vinegar. The vinegar can restore the skin’s pH level and help it heal.
Oatmeal can also come to your skin’s rescue for sunburn or relieving the itch of poison ivy. In fact, you can use it in two ways. Try adding one-half cup of oatmeal (not instant) to a tub of cool bath water and soaking. Skip drying off with a towel. Instead, air drying is better for your body when you are in this condition.
To save yourself from a messy tub, you could also take a thin material like gauze or muslin and cut a square large enough to accommodate that one-half cup of oatmeal, securing it with a tie. Let it float in the cool bath water about ten minutes first before you emerge and soak. You can also use that oatmeal pouch to place very gently over the areas for further help in calming the skin.
Lavender essential oil is something else that you may have on hand or want to look into due to its antiseptic and anti-inflammatory properties. This is one of the only essential oils that you can safely apply to your skin without the need of a carrier oil to dilute it. Take a cool bath first and then try about three or four drops of the lavender essential oil on a wet cotton wash cloth. Hold it tenderly over the afflicted areas helps cool as well as spur the healing process into action.
Another sunburn remedy is derived from a comfrey root. Of course, you are not going to feel like digging up something from your herb garden or do you want to. You only want to use this ingredient in a cream and not if your sunburn has blistered and is open. However, this ingredient may be in one of your current skin care creams so do check. Comfrey roots have allotonin that can aid the inflammation while also stimulating the wounded cells to regenerate.
Read my two earlier posts for more DIY sunburn remedies that also truly lessen the pain!
