Sunburn Relief

When the summer season hits its peak, there’s just no stopping people from hanging outdoors, and doing just about anything under the sun. Even the mere act of traveling can cause sunburn. Hours and hours of traveling in a car with your arm hooked just outside your car window can be reason enough to catch sunburn. Which is why it is very important to know the common methods of achieving sunburn relief. So, it is a good thing that a lot of homemade remedies for relief from sunburn have been developed as well.

Generally, sunburns are just first-degree burns. This means that the sunburns are not that serious, compared to burns of the second or third degrees. Although the sunburned skin is just red and not that painful, it still helps to know sunburn pain relief methods.

The hassle from having sunburn is the fact that it leaves a burning sensation on your skin. This burning sensation actually causes the itchy feeling sunburns leave on your skin. And there is actually a very effective method that provides relief from sunburn itchyness. This method involves apple cider vinegar. The properties of this concoction of apple cider vinegar are just enough to provide a cooling effect on sunburn. In fact, just dabbing apple cider vinegar onto the areas affected with sunburn will bring fast sunburn relief because of its immediate cooling power. And if there’s no immediate itch relief from sunburn, then just keep applying the concoction onto the affected area. The tingling feeling should be gone after a few minutes.

Another method that can bring sun burn relief is applying Aloe Vera juice to the burned spot. Just take part of an Aloe Vera’s leaf, and apply its juice right onto the affecter area. This simple method brings fast sunburn relief. But if you don’t have Aloe Vera plants, then you can substitute this with milk instead. But be sure that the milk you use is cold. It would even be better if the milk were refrigerated. Apply a bit of cold milk onto the sunburn area. Pretty soon, you will experience a cooling sensation as well.

The methods discussed are appropriate for obtaining relief for sunburn when the affected areas are not that huge in size. But what if your sunburn is more intense than usual? Like, your whole body has sunburn, for instance? For severe sunburn pain relief, a bathtub would surely come in handy. Fill your tub will cool water. Emphasis should be placed on the operative word “cool” here. This is because hot water, even warm water, would only worsen the condition. For severe burns, this would just increase the swelling. Cool water, on the other hand, can really provide severe sunburn relief right away. The soothing effects can be increased by adding oatmeal into the tub of water. Yes, oatmeal, and a cup of such would be enough already. Stay in the tub for at least thirty minutes or so. While doing so, make sure that your affected areas are completely soaked in the oatmeal water concoction.

If you find that oatmeal is too extravagant for your taste, or if you’re just having a hard time securing oatmeal, then you can substitute it with peppermint oil. The properties of peppermint oil can clearly provide sunburn itch relief when mixed with water.

If you’re quite the busy bee, and you hardly have the time to take a long shower, let alone relax in the tub, don’t fret. There’s an alternative for this as well. You can actually fill a spray bottle with cool water and tiny amount of peppermint oil. Mix the concoction well, and spray it all over the sunburned areas.

No matter what method you use, it’s important to remember that you should drink a lot of fluids as well. This will help cool and soothe your sunburned areas, as well as keep you hydrated during the hot summer season.