If
you're suffering from having WAY too much fun - at the beach or
out in the great outdoors- take heart with these quick
recipes (many with ingredients that are as close as your kitchen
or bathroom cabinet) for easing the pain of sunburn or windburn:
Various
natural home made remedies
Apply
undiluted apple cider vinegar to sunburn.
Mix 10
ounces non-fat dry milk, 2 tablespoons salt and 25 ounces water.
Saturate cloth and apply to sunburn 20 minutes.
Apply mayonnaise
as a skin cream to sunburn.
Use Aloe
plant, or pure aloe vera gel.
Apply thin
slices of cold cucumbers, apples, or potato directly to the
skin.
Apply cold,
plain yogurt, then rinse with cool water.
Apply cold,
used tea bags to sun-burned eyelids to relieve pain and swelling.
Sun burn
lotion
8 ounces
non-medicated lotion
5 drops clove oil
5 drops peppermint oil
2-4 teaspoons powdered comfrey root
2-4 tablespoons aloe vera gel
Mix together
thoroughly in a bowl. Chill, if desired.
HINT: Amounts
of comfrey root or aloe vera gel may be increased, but do not
increase the amounts of clove or peppermint oils, as they may
cause skin irritation.
Cucumber sunburn lotion 1
cucumber - chopped
1/4 cup glycerin
1/4/ cup rose-water
Squeeze juice
out of the cucumber with a lemon-squeezer, and mix with Glycerin
and Rose-water.
Sunburn soothing bath 2-4
cups *Colloidal (not regular) oatmeal
1/2 to 1 cup baking soda
1-2 cups powdered chamomile flowers
1 cup buttermilk, optional
Add all ingredients
to bath water, or wrap in cheesecloth and tie to the faucet for
adding aroma.
Sunburn mist
2 fluid
ounces of distilled water
9 drops of lavender
2 drops of peppermint
1 drop of spearmint
Mix all, then
mist lightly over sun-burned skin.
* Colloidal oatmeal is more finely ground than regular oatmeal. When mixed with water, it lends a silky feel and helps moisturize and heal sunburned skin.