Hard to dream up a tougher test for a sunburn soother than taking a young lad of thin-skinned Irish persuasion, plopping him on a sun-baked Wisconsin lake and having him spend the better part of a summer’s weekend bobbing on an inner tube that’s being yanked around by a speed boat. Oh, and how about putting the 8-year-old in charge of his own sunscreen patrol?
No surprise young Colin Gorney went to bed at the end of that two-day sunfest with a screamin’ case of sunburn pain. Poor guy could barely fall asleep. Felt like his face was on fire.
But then his mama, Sheila, oozed him up with a new sunburn soother called SunBurnt, a homeopathic gel with aloe vera that, according to the folks who make it at Welmedix, promises to “cool overheated skin” and keep it from peeling.
“It went from a hot burn to a cool dip in the water,” says his mother, who goes on to report that half an hour later young Colin took time out from his darting about the backyard to report “that sunburn stuff really is amazing.”
That’s endorsement enough for us. And we’re adding it to our summer swim bag, and the ever-ready medicine chest, to boot.
The active ingredients in SunBurnt come from the plant and animal kingdoms — cantharis (from a type of beetle), calendula and echinacea (both from the garden, marigolds and coneflowers, respectively), all known to be especially curative for skin that’s disrupted. As in all homeopathic remedies, the natural ingredients work to trigger the body’s innate healing mechanisms.
SunBurnt Therapeutic After Sun Relief comes in two sizes, 2.5-ounce, $4.99, and 6-ounce, $9.99. For more information or to buy online, go to sunburntgel.com.
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