Sunburn Remedies via Food

Potatos

- Potato's starchy compounds will help take the sting out of sunburn
- Cut a raw potato into slices and rub a piece on your most painful sunburned spots. For a more intensive treatment, grate a cold raw potato and apply it as a poultice.

Oatmeal
- Grind up a cup of oatmeal in a food processor, add it to cool bathwater and soak. You can also wrap dry oatmeal in cheesecloth or gauze, run cool water through it and then toss the oatmeal and soak compressess in the liquid, applying every 2 to 4 hours.

Pomegranate
- Pomegranates are a rich source of ellagic acid, which can help protect your skin from UVA- and UVB-induced cell damage

Strawberries
- The berries' tannin content helps reduce the sting of a sunburn.
- Mash a few ripened strawberries and slather on sunburns for natural relief. Rinse off after a few minutes. Or make a paste out of cornstarch and water and slather it over sunburned skin for relief

Cucumbers
- Cucumbers offer sunburn relief on par with store-bought sunburn-relief products, without added with chemical preservatives and harmful fragrances
- Mash a cucumber and apply it to your skin
- Grab an organic cucumber, peel and chop, and then squeeze the juice. Mix it with glycerin and rosewater for protection from the sun.

Guava
- An antioxidant-rich diet could help prep your skin for more potent sun protection before you even step foot outside. One guava contains about five times the amount of vitamin C, a skin-healing antioxidant, as a medium-sized orange.

White Vinegar
- White vinegar's acetic acid acts like a topical nonsterioidal anti-inflammatory drug
- If you're red (just not blistered), dab a bit of distilled white vinegar onto your sunburn. It will kill the pain for about 20 minutes

Tomatoes
- 25 percent more natural protection against sunburn.

Calendula
- This easy-to-grow plant is packed with anti-inflammatory properties that ease burns, including sunburn.
- Make a poultice of calendula blossoms and apply to sunburn to help accelerate healing.

Aloe
- Break off a leaf and apply the juice to your sunburned skin.

Lettuce
- Lettuce's natural pain-killing properties can help wipe away sunburn pain
- Boil lettuce leaves in water. Strain, then let the liquid cool for several hours in the refrigerator. Once chilled, dip cotton balls into the lettuce water and gently wipe over irritated skin.
Fat Free Milk
- The milk creates a protein film on your skin that will help ease the discomfort of fresh sunburn.
- Apply cool, not cold, milk to your skin using a clean cloth or gauze. Apply compresses for 15 to 20 minutes, and repeat every 2 to 4 hours.

Source : Prevention