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Home Remedy for Sunburn - Natural Homeremedies for Sunburn

  

Sunburn is caused by ultraviolet rays from the sun and can vary from the healthy golden tan which many of us hope to achieve to a nasty burnt blistering caused by excess exposure which is both painful and destructive. Not only does too much sun have an ageing effect upon the skin but it can also cause skin cancer, a circumstance to which fair skinned freckled people seem to be particularly vulnerable.

Our great-grandmothers would never have dreamed of exposing themselves to the sun as it would have been deemed not only inelegant and vulgar but also downright dangerous, for they took the threat of sunstroke very seriously indeed.

Whereas today we will spend a fortune on sun blocking creams to ensure that we achieve a safe tan, they would have stayed beneath their parasols and hats and attacked the slightest reddening of the skin with hydrogen peroxide or a solution of weak ammonia.

Home Remedies for Sunburn - Sunburn Home Remedy, remedy for treating, treat sunburn

Simple home remedy for sunburn - Aloe Vera: The juice squeezed from the fresh leaf of the aloe and applied directly to a burn is gelatinous and soothing.(The plant will seal and grow again after such barbarous treatment.) It can also be squeezed out and mixed with cold cream, white petroleum jelly (Vaseline) or oil to cover a larger area. This is beneficial for the treatment of sunburn.

Good home remedy for sunburn - Houseleek: The old-fashioned method was to mix the expressed juice from the freshly leaves with essential oil of rose but just rubbing on the juice from the freshly cut leaf will soothe and heal. It was at time believed that this remedy cured sunstroke when rubbed on one forehead and temple. This will help in reducing sunburn.

Effective home remedy for sunburn - Vinegar: Try taking a cool shower. NOT COLD. You can add vinegar to your bath water. The vinegar will take out the sting from the sunburn. You can also add oatmeal to your bath (grind ut up in a blender to produce a fine powder if possible or try oatmeal bath that you can buy at your local drugstore). This will help in curing sunburn.

Natural home remedy for sunburn - Cucumber: Rub sunburned area with fresh cucumber slices Epsom Salts: Dissolve epsom salts in water and make a compress using a clean cloth. This will prevent sunburn.

Sunburn home remedy - effective home remedy to get relief from sunburn

Herbal home remedy for sunburn - Gin, lemon juice, milk, cold sage tea, cold Indian tea, eau-de-cologne, infusions of nettle, lettuce leaf, chamomile, comfrey or elderflower: Anyone of these applied on cotton wool will bring instant relief from sunburn. Apart from the eau de Cologne it does no harm to drink some either.

Traditional natural home remedy for sunburn - Chamomile or marigold infusion: Add a good quantity of either infusion to the bath or use on a compress. Both herbs are also tremendously helpful in relieving feverishness in overwrought children when used as a weak tea or soaked into cloths and laid on the forehead or the back of the neck.

Make a pulp of raw papaya and apply. Papaya has a cleansing action, softening dead skin cells and aiding their removal.

Diet for Sunburn

Antioxidants like vitamin E and vitamin C are very helpful in curing sunburn. Hence include vitamin E and vitamin C in your diet. Tomato is a good antioxidant. Eat good quality protein foods like meat, egg, fish, chicken and so on. Eat lots of fruits. They will supply essential vitamins and minerals. To keep the body hydrated and compensate for the lost fluids, drink lots of fluids.



 

Fitness Tip

It is important to realize that feeling thirsty is like a red flag - it means you are already dehydrated by at least 2% of your body weight. You should not wait until you get into this state before topping up.

Beauty Tip

Trimming your hair does not make it grow faster, but it removes splitting ends that can split upto 7.5 cm (3 inches) of your hairs length.

 

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