Last week my best friend and I spent an afternoon at the pool. I’m usually suffocated, I’ve filled it up throughout the day, I’ve kept it in the shade as much as possible, and yet my complexion usually leads to redness and still redness at the end of the day.
Sunburns are hard to avoid, especially among us beautiful swimmers. They hurt too, and the skin burns to the touch. There is nothing to be rejected and something to be rejected. Sometimes, though, despite the best efforts, sunburns occur.
If, therefore, if it came, looking more like a locust than the beauty of a bath at the end of a sunny day, follow these steps.
1. Run a warm bath
After the sunburn starts to kill, the last thing you want to do is take a steaming hot bath. hey! Keep in mind, however, that what your hot tub feels hot to the touch, a cold bath won’t feel too good. Now your skin is sensitive and you don’t want to be exposed to extreme temperatures.
Avoid extreme temperatures, and try to run a bath that is lukewarm. A bath of about 70-80 degrees Fahrenheit will help heal your skin, not aggravate the rash, and keep you from sitting in an uncomfortably cold bath.
The temperature of the water also plays an important role in cooling the burned areas of your skin. Although moderately heated water may feel burned on parts of you, the burned areas of your skin have been heated to a much higher temperature, and cooled by warm water.
2. Grab a foot and oatmeal.
Take one clean pair of socks, preferably a simple white cotton sock. Then fill the sock with about 5-10 tablespoons of oatmeal, depending on the size of your bath. I have a slightly larger pot, so I used about 7 tablespoons of oatmeal. The oatmeal I used was a basic, quick-cooker, rolled oats.
Last, but not least, tie the sock tightly so you don’t have the oatmeal flying around in the tub. I once forgot this step, and oatmeal sticking to my skin was not a pleasant washing experience. Yuck. This step is also very important as you squeeze the sock so that you can get the most out of your oatmeal.
3. Put the sock in the barrel.
Throw the sock in the water and soak it for a while before you get into the bath. Once you’re in the lab, squeeze the water out of the sock so that the polysaccharides, protein, and other oatmeal nutrients can be dissolved in the bath. Repeat the process several dozen times, more usefully dissolving the oatmeal water in the barrel with each press.
The water will start to cloud from the oatmeal – that’s good, as it means your bath has been transformed into a healing oasis of nutrients that will soothe your skin and speed up its healing process.
This is also where you will start to see the slippery skin on your coat. This oatmeal polysaccharide dressing is great for your skin, and leaves it feeling soft and nourished even after a bath.
There you have it, 3 easy steps to heal your skin and soothe sunburn naturally. Goodbye, and try not to overdo it!
