The Naturalist’s Folk Remedies For Sunburn

33Russ

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Drew

My sunburn remedy was a wide area excision of the skin around my primary melanoma, followed by a radical lymphectomy of the left axilla (my armpit). Seven years later I had a lumpectomy in below the lymphectomy site after a recurrence of the melanoma. This year, I had the traditional folk remedy of intense beams of radiation focussed on the four lesions on my brain caused by metastases of melanoma. Add to that eight years of anguish for my wife and other non-cancer complications of this journey. Probably would have been better not to have been allowed by my sun-worshipping parents to have been sunburned as a child.

Osbert

A word of caution about buying lavender products, though: many products currently being sold as containing lavender are actually lavandin–a hybrid of lavender that smells stronger and last longer, but can actually WORSEN burns. Companies get away without actually labeling these products differently because it is a hybrid; though sometimes labels will say they use a ‘variety’ of lavender, this is not always the case. If you’re not growing your own lavender, always make sure you check for the proper scientific name (lavandula angustifolia) on the ingredients label before using store-bought lavender products on burns.
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James

Look really painful.

Check the expiry date on the sunscreen it really does become useless with time.
Reapplying is really important as well. Working in Renaissance faires and being in the sun for days, I found that sun screen is only good for 1/2 a day in the sun before you need to reapply.

Krista

That is with an SPF 50? Yikes! That really looks nasty. I have fair skin too, but I usually do okay ith an SPF 30.

Thanks for the tips on remedies. I usually use aloe vera, but this is definately worth a try.

Maggie

I’ve had a lot of luck with Aveeno products as someone who both breaks out and burns quite easily. They have an oil-free, waterproof SPF 70 that kept my Scotch-Irish-English-Welsh skin from so much as tanning in southern California last summer, as well as most summers in North Carolina. I’ve been using their oatmeal bath treatment since I was a baby, a 100% oatmeal powder that dissolves in bathwater.

Also! As for the lavender you spoke of in your daydreaming, lavender is an excellent remedy for both burns (as I tend to do while cooking and baking) and sunburn. If you grow it fresh or have it dried, you could boil it in with the tea as you suggested; or if you have lavender essential oil you can dab it directly on the burn.

A word of caution about buying lavender products, though: many products currently being sold as containing lavender are actually lavandin–a hybrid of lavender that smells stronger and last longer, but can actually WORSEN burns. Companies get away without actually labeling these products differently because it is a hybrid; though sometimes labels will say they use a ‘variety’ of lavender, this is not always the case. If you’re not growing your own lavender, always make sure you check for the proper scientific name (lavandula angustifolia) on the ingredients label before using store-bought lavender products on burns.