Cool Water Treatment for Sunburn
Water is the first and the foremost remedy for immediate relief from your inflamed red skin due to sunburn. Cool water helps you reduce your skin’s swelling by pulling the heat away from your burned skin and in the process, relieves the associated pain. However, never use cold or chilled water. Too cold water constricts the blood vessels resulting into reduced blood flow which may prove to be counter-productive. Here are some ways to use water for your sunburn.

Ways to Use Water for Sunburn
1. Cool Compress: Take a wash-cloth and soak it in cool water. Do not use ice pack, cold water, or iced water to soak the cloth. Apply the wet wash-cloth directly to your skin having sunburn and let it sit there for few minutes. Again wet the cloth and reapply for as many times as you feel like. Do this for 10-15 minutes at the most. Repeat this several times a day.

2. Soak in Cool Water: Sometimes your sunburn is at places where you cannot apply a cool compress such as your back. For such a condition, you may like to soak in cool bathwater for about 10-15 minutes. Do not use soap and don’t be in the bath tub for too long as it will cause your skin go dry and lead to more itching. You may also take shower if you don’t prefer soaking.

3. Drink Water: You got a sunburn which means you have been overexposed to sun and which further means that your body has become dehydrated. Drink lots of water at frequent intervals. You need to keep your body hydrated which helps your sunburn heal faster.

Aloe Vera for Sunburn
Aloe vera herb consists of 99% of water and the rest of the 1% is composed of about 150 minerals and trace elements like vitamins, sodiums, calcium, manganese, magnesium, copper, chrome, zinc, selenium, germanium, potassium, iron, tannins and amino acids. How can a such a rich source of water and minerals not heal your sunburn! Certain elements like selenium and tannins (tannins are astringents) are a known remedy for sunburns and are used in commercially available sunburn lotions and creams too. They are present in aloe vera in abundance. If you ever touch pure aloe vera gel, it feels soothing cool. So, it makes sense to apply aloe vera gel to your sunburn, if possible the one directly taken out of aloe leaf.

How to Use Aloe Vera Gel for Sunburn?
Get this:
• Aloe Vera Leaf (you can have a plant at home or get leaves from a herbal store)
• Knife

Do this:
• Cut a slice from the aloe vera leaf with the help of the knife.

• Using the knife again, cup open the slice of aloe vera leaf.

• Take out some gel from within the leaf.

• Apply this cool gel to your sunburn and forget. Aloe vera gel absorbs into your skin quite rapidly and does not make you feel greasy.

• If, however, you feel sticky after the gel dries out, wash it off with some cool water.

• Reapply several times a day.

Apple Cider Vinegar for Sunburn
This is one of the most effective and quick remedies for sunburn. When apple cider vinegar (ACV) is applied topically for sunburn, it acts as an astringent. The work of an astringent is to shrink or constrict body tissues. Thus, it will reduce inflammation caused due to sunburn. ACV also helps in balancing the pH levels of your burned skin which means it will balance the acidity v/s alkalinity of your skin and thus promote healing. When you have mild sunburn, you may expect to treat it just by applying apple cider vinegar once or twice. Advanced stages of sunburn may require more ACV to be applied over time.

Ways to Use Apple Cider Vinegar for Sunburn

1. Soak a clean washcloth in apple cider vinegar. Apply this cloth to your sunburned skin. You may feel instant relief from that stinging sensation. Let the cloth be there for a couple of minutes. As your skin gets dry after applying vinegar, moisturize it. You may use coconut oil to moisturize which is also our next remedy for sunburn.

2. Add a cup of apple cider vinegar to the tub of your bath water. Soak or take bath with this water.

3. Mix equal parts of ACV and water. Store the same in a spray bottle. Spray this mixture on your sunburned skin multiple times a day.

Cucumber for Sunburn
The very cool cucumbers are 96% water and the rest is also a rich treasure of beneficial nutrients, mostly alkaline forming minerals including vitamins A and C, folate, manganese, molybdenum, potassium, silica, sulfur among others. This summer vegetable belonging to melon family has natural antioxidant and analgesic properties. All these components and properties of cucumber makes it an excellent remedy for skin conditions including sunburn. Cucumber soothes and cools and also repairs your UV rays damaged inflamed skin in the most effective manner.

Ways to Use Cucumber for Sunburn

1. Make a paste of cucumber pieces using grinder or blender. Apply this paste to your sunburned skin. Leave for about 20 minutes before washing off.

2. Make slices of cucumber and place them all over your burned skin. Leave for about half and hour.

3. Make juice of cucumber and with the help of a wash cloth, place a cool compress on your affected areas by soaking the cloth into cucumber juice.

Baking Soda for Sunburn
Baking soda is once again a very soothing remedy for sunburn. Just like apple cider vinegar, it balances the pH level or the acid-alkaline balance of your skin promoting faster healing. You can make a cool compress, or have bath with baking soda in your water. Here are some ways to use this remedy.

Ways to Use Baking Soda for Sunburn
1. Add a few tablespoons or a half cup of baking soda to the tub filled with your bath water. Now soak for 15-20 minutes. Too much soaking may lead to even drier skin so resist that urge. Also do not use towel to dry off and let it air dry so that baking soda sits there on your skin.

2. Make a compress. Add a few teaspoons of baking soda in a bowl of water. Soak a wash cloth and apply this to your sunburn affected area.

As an alternative, you may use cornstarch in place of baking soda.

Tea for Sunburn
Tea has tannic acid in it which helps in pulling out the heat from your sunburned skin. Not only this, it also balance the pH level of the skin giving you the much needed comfort. Tannic acid is nothing but the commercial form of tannins which in turn are a type of polyphenol or a strong antioxidant. They protect your skin from harmful toxins in the environment and repair damaged skin as well as relieve pain. You can use any tea, black or green tea, for sunburn to get the benefits of tannic acid in them. Catechin compounds in green tea also gives protection against sun’s harmful radiation.

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