If you got the poison I got the remedy.

Ouchie

With the summer coming up, and the sun already making us ginger kids with no souls go into a tizzy when we can feel our skin baking in the suns mighty heat deathly glow. As someone who has been burnt, quite a few  times in my past ( my mom never informed me really about how deadly the sun can be to my precious skin and didnt contest when for my first bikini I chose a black one! Thanks mom!) I know a thing or two about making yourself feel better after being badly burnt. This however wont make your sunburn go away, this is only to make yourself feel better and hopefully get some sleep.

This might look a little odd, and no were not doing any science projects of making volcanoes, but you can still see a little scientific stuff going on. The first step is to make a luke warm bath, not to hot because your skin is already burnt, but not to cold, and put throw in some baking soda and vinegar. (if you watch closely you can see them interacting with each other in the water) Soak in the bath for 15 mins, on each side, or all parts that are sunburnt. Do not use any soap, most soaps have stuff in them that dry your skin out even more which defeats the purpose of this bath. The reason I bathe in vinegar and baking soda is that it takes out the sting of the sunburn. 

Soaking my cares away, I mean the sting away.

If you have blisters I would advise to pop the blisters with a STERILE needle and let them drain, keeping the skin on it, not peeling it off. I recommend doing this after the bath so the bath doesn't get into the area and your skin will hurt less after the bath.

After the bath, pat yourself dry, try not to rub, I always have to remind myself because I dry off any which way just to not get cold after bathing. Next I take some allergy medication (this is incase you are allergic to the sun or swell) and some ibuprofen ( this is also an anti inflamatory which will help if you start to swell and well as a pain reliever. I then definetely remember to take my multivitamin, because I feel like the sun took out some of my vitamins, and hey, it cant hurt. Lastly make sure you drink a lot of water, you can become really dehydrated, as well as your skin being dehydrated now that it is burnt.

I dont even understand how only this part got burnt?!

The next process is ALOE VERA AND LOTS OF IT! Apply it whenever you want, keep it in the fridge so its cold for you to put on your skin, if you have an aloe vera plant, even better, cut off a leaf, slice it open, and rub directly onto your skin.

Make sure you get plenty of rest, and drink water, and keep your skin hydrated. 

I know this might be gross, but keep some anti diarrhea medicine around. Sometimes I get some issues with that when I get burnt.

One more thing, If your face is really badly burnt, instead of submerging it into the bath for 15 mins, make a baking soda paste with just baking soda and water, and put it on your skin, leave on for 3-5 mins depending on how burnt you are. I would not leave it on longer because baking soda can drastically dry out your face, causing it to be even worse while it burnt. This part also kind of aches/hurts so be careful.

I hope this helped, I ALWAYS do this every time I get burnt and the next day, my skin might be a little tender but it makes a world of difference.

If you have any other advice or tips for sunburns, please leave them in the comments~!