Thanks for yours and others useful tips.

As it turns out I had some lip lotion onboard with Aloe Vera and that was
what I started using as soon as I realized that my lips were getting burned.

I well curtainly restock my medical cabinet with some of these things that
have been mentioned (less the 'chicken ****')..

I guess I'm in denial, my GP doctor keeps reminding me that my skin is
getting thinner at my age (66) and I bruse and sun burn more easily.

I have never used much sun screen and when I was growing up on the farm and
as a teenager, we intentionally exposed as much bare skin to the sun, while
it was summer. No body wanted to look pail and pasty.. Hense my skin is
very weathered from early exposure to the sun (and 35 years of smoking).

Thanks again for all the constructive comments.

Steve
s/v Good Intentions

Keith wrote:

The only thing I've ever known to work on sunburns is pure aloe vera gel.
I keep a bottle in the refrigerator. I don't know how that would taste in
your mouth though...


I don't know about the 'gel' but I used to own an aloe vera plant and used
it on burns. It is pretty tasteless, just a bit sweet.

For anyone who cares to know, you cut off a leaf of plant, split it in half
and apply the juice/meat/whatever you call it from the inside of the leaf
directly to the burn. I found that it helped ease the pain a little and did
reduce the healing time of bad sunburns a it.

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