Sunburn Treatment

Sunburn Pain and Peeling

The effects of sunburn are very predictable. When your skin is exposed for too long to ultraviolet radiation from the sun, 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.

Sunburn Treatment - sunburn pain relief and more

If you get sunburned - even if the sunburn isn't very painful - it is important to treat your skin to keep it from being permanently damaged. Many sunburn 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 sunburn causes doesn't later result in a pathological condition.

Shea butter, especially Karite Gold Original Formula with its additional essential oils, is a wonderful agent for sunburn pain relief and for treating the effects of sunburn in a way that ensures there are no long-term ill effects from the burning. Shea butter revitalizes skin cells so that they regain their moisture retention capacity. And unrefined shea butter not only contains a high moisturizing fraction, but also contains an extraordinarily high healing fraction. Because of these powerful properties, it's nature's finest one-stop product for dealing effectively with sunburn.

The Healing Fraction: When just a moisturizer is used to treat sunburn, the cells are hydrated, but then quickly lose the moisture. To treat sunburn effectively, the cells need to be made more elastic. The essential oils we add to Karite Gold work synergistically with the shea butter's healing fraction to restore the skin cells' elasticity. As the healing progresses, the cells continue to admit moisture as before, but after the healing are better able to keep it from escaping.

The Moisturizing Fraction: Shea butter is a particularly good moisturizer because it penetrates the skin quickly, while leaving it feeling soft and cool with no oily residue.

When using shea butter for the treatment of sunburn, apply a moderate amount of Karite Gold to the areas of your skin that are burned. 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 gently in a circular motion as you apply the shea butter.

Click here to find out how you can order shea butter to treat sunburn. Click here to learn about other skin problems, besides sunburn, that shea butter has been known to help. Click here to go back to the top of this Sunburn Treatment page.