I GOT SUNBURNED, NOW WHAT DO I DO?
I GOT SUNBURNED, NOW WHAT DO I DO?
When you burn in the sun, looking for a thousand and one ways to relieve yourself becomes an obsession: the Internet, grandmother's remedies, even ice baths cross our minds. But really, what is the best thing to do? It is interesting to have some basic advice before even getting caught.
How do I know if I have sunburn?
If you have:
- skin that is red and sensitive to heat or touch
- blisters that form after a few hours or days
- serious reactions (also called “sun poisoning”), including fever, chills, nausea, or rash
- peeling skin on sunburned areas several days after sunburn.
Here's what will help you
The first thing to do is to stop the skin from burning. Our first instinct is often to want to hide the reddened skin with a t-shirt for example, but even if you put on a sweater or hide the sunburned area, your skin will continue to burn. So you need a shock treatment with warm-cold water (not cold, but warm-cold) for a minimum of 15 minutes with a moisturizer. LAIT-NERF is the perfect moisturizer to put in your bath in this circumstance. Don't forget that a burn dehydrates the skin and that water alone does not rehydrate it. So if you take a bath with a deep moisturizer, it's even better.
If you don't have a bath moisturizer on hand, stay in the bath or shower for 15 minutes. Then, it will be important to pat your skin dry (not wipe it, but pat it dry) so as not to shock or irritate it. In any case, if you have a bad sunburn, you will be unable to scrub because the pain will be too intense. After patting, you ABSOLUTELY SHOULD apply a balm or moisturizer that will moisturize, of course, but also relieve the skin of its trauma.
Karestapo will become your best ally: it was created to soothe, relieve and help restructure skin that has been burned by the sun. It contains shea butter, coconut oil and argan oil that will deeply moisturize the skin! Karestapo also contains vitamin E, which will greatly help tissue healing.
Ôd'rose , becomes an interesting alternative for instant relief from the tightness of your skin. Moisturizing but also soothing, it will give you an immediate feeling of freshness! Rose hydrosol is also designed to heal the skin, which will help the burn to fade quickly!
Do you still feel pain when moving? That's normal. Your skin has been burned! Slowly, yes, but with the same effect as a burn on a stove. So you need to moisturize it to help it heal quickly.
No one is immune to sunburn, but several tips to avoid it as much as possible are mentioned in the previous blog .
