I have a really bad sun burn on my arms and shoulders, is there anything i can use to make it feel better?
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Hydrate the skin. Using anything with aloe will help a lot. Drink lots of fluids.
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Try a medicated aloe lotion. I used one where the ingredients were a green jelly substance about 5 years ago. It worked fairly well.
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Take a luke warm shower (this helps take out some of the heat) and then really lay the aloe on thick. That's the best thing you can do.
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Try aloe lotion - but be sure to look at the ingredients, because most aloe lotions contain almost no aloe at all.
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add some vinegar to bath water or soak a soft sponge in vinegar and dab it. i know it sounds like it would hurt but it really pulls the sting out. it's the best thing i've found. after you do that apply some aloe.
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Here are a few tricks that I've learned. 1. By wearing your shirt inside out, you'll prevent the seams from rubbing on the sunburns. 2. Using a vinegar water spray will make it fell a lot better by cooling the skin. I usually do this before bed and take a shower or bath in the morning, so I won't be going about my day smelling like a pickle. 3. Aloe-Vera is fabulous and has been used for centuries as a healing plant for burns and other ailments. You can buy pure Aloe-Vera or other products with aloe-Vera in them at the store. You can even get yourself your very own Aloe-Vera plant. Break off the end of a stalk and squeeze some of the liquid out. (They are actually very easy to take care of and inexpensive.) 4. Never use oily lotions or cremes on sunburns or other burns, unless they are specifically made for healing burns. They prevent air getting to the burn and slow the healing process.
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Aloe and lots of fluids like stated, this will help it heal faster and the aloe can help reduce the pain. You can also use ice, but that is going to help for a short time only. Don't forget to keep them out of more sun!
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Banana Boat Aloe Vera gel.
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apparently sun tan cream works
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Far simpler than any of the above (but too late for you now, probably) is to keep it wet for eight or ten hours. The reason is that after a burn, all the capillaries try to open as wide as possible, all at once, to let heat escape. But this ruptures them, and that's what causes damage. Keeping it wet constantly--never let it dry for the whole eight hours--clamps down on those capillaries. There will be little or no pain, blisters, or peeling.
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Aloe plant, Luke warm water and vinegar, also tea bags (wet the tea bag with room temp water and lay on the burn) it takes the burn out.
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