Yogurt for Sunburn Relief: A Simple Home Remedy

Getting sunburned can be a painful way to spend your vacation. Luckily, a home remedy may alleviate your sunburn pain without much hassle. Simply reach into your refrigerator and pull a container of yogurt from the shelves to begin relieving your sunburn pain.

Things You'll Need

• Yogurt
• Aloe vera gel or mashed strawberries
• Spoon
• Cool water

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Instructions

• 1

  Get the coolest container of plain yogurt available from inside your refrigerator. Check the label to make sure that the yogurt contains live cultures.

• 2

  Add a spoonful of pure, aloe gel to the yogurt. Incorporate the aloe gel into the yogurt with a spoon. The aloe adds an extra skin-soothing ingredient to the yogurt. Alternatively, you may make a mixture of half mashed strawberries and half yogurt.

• 3

  Spread the yogurt onto your skin using your fingers or a spoon. Add thick layers to the affected skin so that the yogurt covers the entire area of the sunburn.

• 4

  Wait 20 minutes while the yogurt soothes your skin, warms and dries.

• 5

  Wipe away the yogurt mixture as soon as it warms or dries on your skin.

• 6

  Reapply another layer of yogurt if the pain persists. Repeat the process until you have used the entire container of yogurt and the pain subsides.

• 7

  Rinse the last of the yogurt mixture off your skin in the shower. Use cool water to minimize pain.