On Thanksgiving day I pulled the classic kitchen error. While scrambling to get everything on the table, I put a pan that had just come out of the oven into the sink. Then, without thought, turned around to wash said pan and picked it straight up with my bare hand.
Thanksgiving dinner consisted of a wrapped hand with ice, soaking it in tea (tea is suppose to take the sting out). It wasn't until post-dinner when I was contemplating an ER visit that I remembered a product class I took in my past life as a Salon GM. Nioxin's hair system consisting of a conditioner called Scalp Therapy was also toted as a burn remedy and we used it often in the salon when stylists burned themselves with curling irons.
DANGER! DANGER!!!
This might be ok - if old-wives-tale-ish - on the lightest of 1st degree burns, but NOTHING other than cold water should be put on a more serious burn without medical direction.
Every hear of doctor's scraping toothpaste off a fools burns? It's real, and it's excruciating!
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This going to sound a little funny, but hemorroid cream helps with minor burns. Back when my husband worked at Starbucks, that's what they always used if they got burned from the drinks. And it totally works.
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No ice ever that burns more!
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Aloe is my remedy...I have a plant in my kitchen.
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It's "touted". I'm not sure why, but AT LA seems to have the worst problem with typos and spelling errors in their posts.
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Soy sauce also works for minor burns. Handy, since when I do burn myself, I'm usually in the kitchen.
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My husband talked me into putting vinegar on a burn once. It was really, really painful for a few minutes then the pain was totally gone.
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