Burn Treatment

Burn Pain and Peeling

The effects of a burn are very predictable. When your skin is exposed to a flame or to a very hot object, your skin cells overheat, lose moisture, and contract. The contraction causes pain. And the loss of moisture causes flaking and peeling of the skin and sometimes causes more serious damage.

Burn Treatment - burn pain relief and more

If you get burned - even if the burn isn't very painful - it is important to treat your skin to keep it from being permanently damaged. Many burn treatments focus only on pain relief. Pain relief is important, of course, but even more important is to ensure that the damage to the skin that the burn causes doesn't later result in a pathological condition.

Shea butter is a wonderful agent for burn pain relief and for treating the effects of burn in a way that ensures there are no long-term ill effects from the burning. Unrefined shea butter not only contains a high moisturizing fraction, but also contains an extraordinarily high healing fraction. The essential oil that combines with shea butter to most effectively heal a burn is Lavender.

The following Karite Gold products each contain Shea Butter and Lavender, and they are all about equally effective for burns. Click on any of these products to find out more about them.

• Shea Butter with Lavender and Myrrh   (fragrance: light and soothing)
• Shea Butter with Lavender, Grapefruit and Vanilla   (fragrance: fresh and invigorating)
• Shea Butter with Sandalwood and Lavender   (fragrance: soft and alluring)

To treat a burn, apply a moderate amount of Karite Gold at least three times a day. After you have coated an area of your skin with shea butter, spend some time making sure that the shea butter works its way down under the surface of your skin. Move your fingers in a circular motion as you apply the shea butter.

To learn more about Shea Butter and the essential oils that are used for burns, click on the links below:

• Shea Butter
• Lavender

Alternative Medicine

For an explanation of why this treatment works, we recommend the book Medical Aromatherapy: Healing with Essential Oils by Kurt Schnaubelt. If your skin problem persists, we strongly recommend that you see a medical professional - either a dermatologist or a practioner of wholistic medicine who specializes in skin problems.

Click here to learn about other skin problems, besides burns, that shea butter has been known to help. Click here to go back to the top of this Burn Treatment page.