Home remedies · Skin, wounds & stings
No home remedy here replaces treatment, and none is talked down. What has done good for generations does good — even if no one ever measured it. Where something is well studied, it says so. Where it is only experience, it says that too.
Apply the gel thinly to the reddened skin, several times a day, as long as it feels good.
The gel is almost entirely water and cools as it evaporates; the skin feels less tight.
It does not demonstrably speed the healing of sunburn — the damage has already happened.
Not on blisters or broken skin. Extensive sunburn with fever, shivering or nausea needs medical assessment, especially in children.
See a doctor: wounds that gape, bleed heavily or are deep, bite wounds, burns larger than your own palm or with blisters on the face and joints. Likewise redness spreading quickly, especially with fever. And any mole that changes.