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Remedies for a sunburn

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    Did you overdo it in the sun? The Medicine Hunter, Chris Kilham, gives us some natural ways to find relief fast

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It's the warm season and people are taking their skin out for a test drive in the hot sun.

The UBA and UVB rays of the sun feel great.

A lot of people love to ten but a little bit too much can cause a sunburn and we know that the sun -- not a good thing.

When you get burned.

What he -- -- to start with aloe Vera.

This is the inside -- of a very popular -- -- plant that also makes a great beautiful plan to have around your home because it's so decorative.

The gel of aloe Vera is cooling and soothing.

It helps to heal sunburn.

Especially the cooling helps to relieve that intense heat that you get from a burn.

So aloe Vera I would describe this remedy number one for his sunburned.

Number two.

-- -- new oil I've mentioned this before for other things this is an all around great first stayed remedy for skin.

-- -- -- oil comes from the not of a tropical tree that grows in the Pacific.

You can -- to Vermont new oil and natural foods supermarkets and other places.

You put to -- on a burned my experience is that it takes away the -- comfort of a burned.

Pretty much right away.

And it also turns that burn into a ten and about a day so to -- oil is a friend of mine I keep it on hand in the summer.

The last thing I like to use is witch hazel.

This is an extract that you can get in any drugstore it's clear it almost looks like water in the bottle witch hazel is an extract of a tree.

Interestingly enough this tree grows mostly in Connecticut so that's sort of the epicenter of the witch hazel industry.

Witch hazel is a cooling splash you put it on a burned.

And it helps to relieve that hot sensation and discomfort it tighten skin helps to keep your skin from peeling.

It's the hot season people are out in the sun.

Protect yourself use sun screen be cautious and if you get burned try these natural remedies for Fox News health.

I'm Chris --