Sunburn Treatment: a Combination of Effective Sunburn Remedies

Remedies To Prevent Wrinkles and Skin Cancer

If you get sunburned - even if the sunburn isn't very painful - there are steps you need to take to prevent premature aging and skin cancer. Many sunburn treatments focus only on pain relief. Pain relief is important, of course, but it's even more important to ensure that sunburn doesn't later result in a pathological condition. Follow this treatment to get immediate relief and guard your skin from permanent damage.

UV rays can be deadly even if you use sunscreen, creating "free radicals" - damaged cells that scavenge electrons from healthy cells (oxidizing), causing premature aging and inducing several forms of skin cancer, including basal cell carcinoma, squamous cell cancer, and deadly melanoma.

Scientific research has demonstrated that anti-oxidants effectively counteract the damaging effects of these wrinkle and cancer-causing free radicals, including the processes involved in the growth and proliferation of actinic keratoses (skin growths), basal cell carcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma (nonmelanoma), and melanoma.

An Important Fact

Unrefined Shea Butter is a powerful, active, natural anti-oxidant. That means that with the very first application, shea butter is already preventing and eliminating free radicals - fighting to keep your skin youthful and cancer free. Karite Gold shea butter not only contains an extraordinarily high anti-oxidant fraction, but also a high moisturizing fraction. Whether pure shea butter or shea butter with essential oils is used, the dynamic combination replaces the lost moisture caused by sunburn, guards against cancer, and prevents premature wrinkles!

We add essential oils - Lavender, Grapefruit, and Vanilla - to create Karite Gold - Sunburn Formula. These essential oils reinforce the moisturizing and healing properties of shea butter. Lavender in particular amplifies the effects of shea butter on sunburn.

To order Karite Gold - Sunburn Formula or to find out more, click here.

The Treatment Remedies:

1. Immediately upon getting out of the sun, gently wash the skin to remove all traces of sunscreen (if necessary). Pat the skin gently to dry, avoiding rubbing. The main idea is to not irritate the skin more than it already is, particularly in areas where the skin is softer, like the face, for example (or anywhere on small children).
2. Take oral painkillers for pain, as necessary (Tylenol, ibuprofen, or aspirin).
3. If your sunburn is severe, take a cool bath - not ice cold, but cool - and avoid bath salts, oil, or bubble bath.
4. It is very important to re-moisturize your skin and keep it that way while the sunburn heals. Start with an application of shea butter to replace lost moisture and sooth the skin. Remember that applying shea butter on a daily basis fights cancer and premature wrinkling. Recommended applications are twice per day.
• Place a moderate amount of shea butter in your palm.
• Using circular motions with your fingertips, melt the shea butter in your hand.
• Gently apply the shea butter to the sunburned area.
5. Take relaxing oatmeal/shea butter baths once or twice a day. To see our soothing sunburn bath recipe, click here. The ingredients of this bath help by comforting the skin and adding an enduring moisturizer to the water. While in the bath, the sunburn pain may actually disappear almost completely, and should be reduced some afterwards, particularly if used in combination with oral pain relievers.
6. After the oatmeal baths, the skin should be generously coated with shea butter and allowed to absorb as much as it can. Because of shea butter's active characteristic, it is easily absorbed and naturally penetrates the skin's layers.
7. The baths should be continued for three or four days, until the sunburn redness begins to fade and the pain is lessened. The oral painkillers should be stopped as soon as possible. After a week or two, the application of Karite Gold to the sunburned area can be discontinued (unless you want your skin to remain ultra soft). Remember that after the pain fades, the skin is not finished healing. Although peeling may occur, this treatment will minimize the amount of peeling that occurs. If peeling does occur, it's best to leave it alone (in other words, don't pick at it).
8. Within a couple of weeks the pain of sunburn will be only a memory. Perhaps the most important step of this treatment is to avoid getting sunburned again. Remember, sunburn increases the chances of skin cancer every time your skin gets damaged in such a way. Prevention is the key.