Home Remedies for Sunburn

[sleuth]

Any suggestions to take the sting out?
I'm really uncomfortable from face down to my ankles...

I've tried lotion and cocoa butter... each only seems to help for a few minutes...

 

[cattitude]

vinegar

 

[sleuth]

vinegar

Don't have any of that.. will have to run to the store...
Do you mix it with bath water and soak in it?

I think someone told me once that tomato juice is good for something too, but for some reason I'm thinking that might be for chicken pox or poison ivy or something...

 

[SmallTown]

lotion is the worst thing you can use. actually keeps the heat trapped in which is exactly what you don't want. lotion is good a few days after the burn to try and save the skin, but at the beginning it is a no no.


like cat said, vinegar is probably the most popular. Some claim that noxzema (sp?) is good if you apply it to the burned areas and don't wash it off. But considering you have a whole body burn, you would need a lot of that stuff!

 

[cattitude]

Don't have any of that.. will have to run to the store...
Do you mix it with bath water and soak in it?

I think someone told me once that tomato juice is good for something too, but for some reason I'm thinking that might be for chicken pox or poison ivy or something...

I used to just "pat" the vinegar on my skin with paper towels. Tomato juice is for skunk smell.

Noxema, aloe gel, even solarcaine spray.

Why don't you just do a search online? Been so long since I had a sunburn, maybe something's changed.

 

[kwillia]

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[Ken King]

Baby oil and more sun. Get right back out in it.

 

[kwillia]

Baby oil and more sun. Get right back out in it.

 

[SmallTown]

Baby oil and more sun. Get right back out in it.

Is this along the same lines as curing a hangover?

 

[Ken King]

Is this along the same lines as curing a hangover?

Yep, a little "hair of the dog".

 

[Jameo]

Ibuprofen will help also

 

[Sharon]

Forget the home remedies Sleuth and go get yourself some Hawaiian Tropic I.C.E. with Lidocaine or anything similar.

 

[Kizzy]

Forget the home remedies Sleuth and go get yourself some Hawaiian Tropic I.C.E. with Lidocaine or anything similar.

After spending so much time in the derm's office, I did find out that sometimes you can prevent many sun spots and just overall sun damage just by the way you nurse a sunburn. I would trust a "product" made for sunburns knowing what I know now, but you can use vinager in the meantime if you had some. Since you are already making a trip to the store, might as well get the good stuff.