So you work your butt off getting your body beach ready and in total Fit After Thirty shape. You lift weights and train your butt off and get flat abs and a tight rear until you successfully achieve a body you can be proud of. But in all your enthusiasm to strut your stuff in your hot bikini, you forget to use enough sunscreen and so you become a burned lobster. Sound familiar? (After this weekend, it sounds familiar to the lower quarter of each of my left and right butt cheeks and it also sounds familiar to the two inches of lower back above my bikini bottoms.) Yes, my sunscreen application needs improvement!!

You want a hot bod, yes - but not the sunburned kind of hot bod! So what do you do if the sun ends up adoring your sexy, fit bod more than you want it to? Here are my top ten sunburn home remedies to soothe, ease pain, prevent peeling, and heal skin!

1. Oatmeal bath or oatmeal applied as a paste - soothes and helps ease pain

2. Apple Cider Vinegar applied from a spray bottle or with soaked towels - soothes and removes heat.

3. Aloe Vera gel - Cools and soothes and helps heal

4. Vitamin E oil - hastens the healing, and helps prevent peeling

5. Calendula ointment - soothes and helps heal

6. Black tea spritzed or soaked in clothes

7. Hemorrhoid cream - contains cortisone to soothe inflammation

8. Emu oil - a wonder oil for many types of skin irritations and inflamations

9. Tomato puree or tomato juice soaked in washcloths - the lycopene helps diminish sun damage. You might try lycopene pills as well, taken internally.

10. Ibuprofin taken internally - anti-inflammatory and pain reliever - though I always recommend using in conjunction with some of the above topicals.

And in order to prevent this again, here are sun protection options I recommend:

Anthelios sunscreen - it contains Mexoryl XL and SX which means you won’t have to reapply as often. It also blocks both UV A and UV B rays. 

Big Sun Hat 

Beach Umbrella - perfect for sitting under on the beach