what's the best thing to put on a sunburn? Home remedies or other?

Answer 1

youll find some great skincare remedies on this article that should help. but aloe vera is really good for repairing skin

Answer 2

Aloe vera is probably the best after sun treatment.

Cooling the skin helps a lot and will ease the pain, for a short while at least. so cool (not cold) towels help and any cooling agent like calamine lotion. Also a light breeze across the back will help and also misting with water as this will cool the skin as it evaporates.

Avoid greasy and oily things that might close of air to the skin. The skin must breath.

Sadly there is no quick cure.

Do please remeber the suncream next time. Even a light covering goes a long way to prevent burn.

Answer 3

Take an oatmeal bath first. Use the kind for kids, for some reason it works better. After the bath, use aloe vera gel, the 100% pure kind, not the kind that is green or blue or whatever, the clear kind. Also, there is a new OTC drug, called Heliocare that works wonders. It's made from some kind of fern. Ask your pharmacist, sometimes they have to special order it. I swear it works!

Answer 4

I get a spray bottle, plastic, fill it with vineger, normally white, and spray it on the sunburn. Some people tell me it burns, but I never had that problem, spray everytime it feels like it tightens up, generally after 1 hour of keeping it sprayed the pain goes away, and the tighteness should be gone also. Do not spray on open blisters.

Answer 5

Aloe during the day, and baby oil at night. Trust me baby oil works. Make SURE you don't go out into the sun with baby oil on, because you will more than likely make your sunburn worse. Only use baby oil at night on sunburns.

Answer 6

aloe from the plant. Go to a store and buy the plant. Split open the leaves and rub the gooky stuff on sunburn. It works right away.

Answer 7

Aloe vera the plant works best. Or try the aloe vera gel that they sale in the stores now.

Answer 8

Buy some of that aloe vera after sun gel and put it in the fridge for an hour then apply.....it feels great and helps the burn.

Answer 9

A cool shower. Then I apply witch hazel and take some tylenol. It's recommended not to take a hot shower because it opens your pores, if you then slather on a heavy lotion then it holds the heat in and raising your core temp making you sick. Then heat should be released for 1 night then you can apply lotion. Sounds wierd, but i spend the summer at the lake and it works.

Answer 10

My Grandmother swears by this, if you soak a wet rag in white vinegar and let it sit on your sun burn and kept changing it, it will take the stink or hurt out of sunburn.