If it's a bad burn that you need to beat, stay away from the tips spouted on TikTok. Here because.
Don't store avocado like this: it's dangerousSome refreshing packs and some rejuvenating cream from the good INCI, but never - never - vinegar or anything like that spread all over your body: if it's a bad sunburn that you have to beat, stay away from the tips on TikTok.
Once again, in fact, the popular social network becomes the self-styled spokesperson for recommendations that leave the time they find. In this round it is the turn of "how to do if your skin is burned in the sun?".
First of all, let's remember one fundamental thing: you don't even have to get there to burn. And, in order not to get there, it is absolutely necessary to take all the necessary precautions, first of all exposing yourself to the sun with a sunscreen with a protection factor appropriate to the needs of your skin.
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Also keep in mind that sunburn can also be extremely painful and cause soreness, blistering, swelling and even headaches, nausea and fatigue. And in the long run they cause serious damage to the skin itself.
And let's go back to TikTok. In these parts it seems that many influencers have legitimized themselves in the propose unusual ways to prevent or soothe sunburn. For this experts and dermatologists have risen: none of this is good.
From sour cream to mouthwash, passing through vinegar: burns should not be faced like this!
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Never use vinegar
Vinegar is good for much else, in the kitchen as in some types of cleaning, but it can never help you after a terrible burn. However, some TikTok users have resorted to using white vinegar on sunburn, claiming that a vinegar bath can help.
Absolutely not! Vinegar has an acidity extremely high and PH levels of around 2 or 3. Putting undiluted vinegar on the skin can damage the already fragile skin barrier and cause more pain and inflammation, as well as potential chemical burns if placed on the skin for too long.
Never use mouthwash
Mouthwash is usually used to prevent gum disease and leave the mouth peppermint, but not for sunburn. Still, some tiktokers have seen fit to fill a spray bottle with mouthwash and spray it directly on their sunburn to calm the discomfort.
A decidedly bizarre and extreme way to relieve the pain of sunburn and is by no means a safe method. While menthol or eucalyptol in mint flavors may have cooling properties, it is the alcohol content, as well as ingredients such as benzoic acid, that are problematic. All this is to say that such a method can cause dryness or cracking of the skin, redness and itching.
Never use sour cream
The stars of TikTok have been sifting through the contents of their refrigerators looking for objects to apply on sunburn, we understand. Everything is fine, according to them. One user instructs others to sprinkle sour cream all over the sunburn and leave it for up to an hour to get rid of all traces of sunburn.
Stay away - it might feel more hydrated to the skin, but in the long run you will only have thrown away an ingredient that would have been good in some recipe (if anything sour cream were part of your shopping).
Do you know what the only secret is? Use, and use a lot, one Sun protection suitable to protect your skin at its best.
HERE trovate rather all natural remedies that are good for sunburn.
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