how can you get rid of really bad sunburn redness overnight?

You can take some aspirin or advil or ibuprfen to relieve some of the pain, but you are stuck with the red for a few days...

There are numerous topical skin products that can relieve the pain of a sunburn and speed up the healing process. However, it is best never to cover a sunburn that is blistered or open with any sort of cream, gel, or ointment as it may cause the wound to become infected.

The symptoms of milder sunburn can be treated with an antipruritic such as Calamine Lotion.

The thick mucilaginous gel on an Aloe vera plant or aloe-based products are popular treatments that heal the burn and relieve pain.

Regular white vinegar and apple cider vinegar have often been touted for their usefulness in treating sunburns and preventing blistering and peeling.

Other common folk remedies involve the application of lavender oil, tea (cooled), yogurt, St. John's wort, or cucumbers to the burnt skin.

Skin treatments aside, the pain from a sunburn is often best treated with an analgesic such as acetaminophen or ibuprofen. Additional relief may be found by putting a cool, wet towel over the affected area.

Using tomato on the skin is a more painful way of treating the burn, but is mostly effective.

Ice provides immediate relief; however, once removed, discomfort may follow. Also of note is the common use of almond milk which is particularly soothing to children. Avocado-based moisturing lotions have proven as effective as standard pharmaceutical aftersun treatments in cooling the burn, reducing the edema and restoring elasticity to the burnt skin if applied within 24 hours of the burn.

A hot shower may also take the sting and the heat out of mild sunburn however there is significant risk with severe sunburn that a hot shower will increase the damage perhaps leading to blistering of skin which has not yet blistered.

It's probably just a really bad sunburn. It will take a week or two to go away. You're doing the right thing right now to put aloe vera on it. Try smothering the area with plain yogurt for 10-15 minutes to help soothe it and help it heal. Don't rub it, touch it, or bother it because doing so will only make it worse. You can cover it up with makeup if it is not healed in time, but use a good makeup like a BB cream (you can find BB creams on ebay). Take care!

Careful there. As a 47 year old I can tell you I am paying for my sunburns now. No malignancy yet but a few precancers beetlejuiced off.

Anyway as stinky and oooooooooooooooooooey as it sounds, apple cider vinegar dabbed on definate helps as thats what mom used. Also, Noxema Cold Creme had an ewwwwwwwwwwwwwww ahhhhhhhhhhhh relief factor as well.

Good luck

Here are somethings that will help ease Sting & Redness ..White Vinegar ..deluted with abit of warm water ..just apply it to your skin ...Also Believe it or not MUSTARD helps too ..You know Hot dog /Hamburger type , regular type .Just spread it on & let it set for a few mins Just don't let it dry ..Then Shower. Bactine ( you know the stuff for Boo Boos' & Scrapes e.t.c ) it helps too ..& so Does Solarcane . you can also go on lie & Type in SUNBURN or SUNBURN RELIEF You might find something there ..Hope the Red turns to a sunkissed glow for you & Hey Keep your Skin moisturized too so you don't peel ~

aloe vera gel, nothing better! Either chop up a branch or get some from the health food store. Also, cucumber does the same thing. Mix it up after you peel the skin off and apply like a paste. They both have a great cooling effect!!

dont take a hot shower and dont put alot of soap on your sunburn. the soap drys yu oout. when you get out of the shower put some aloe vera gel on . it is great.

aloe vera jel. it will help the burn anyway, not much you can do about the red,but maybe try vitamin e oil

pure aloe vera gel will definitly help alot

you cant. all you can do it put lots of aloe and really good moisutrizing lotion. make sure you wear strong sunscreen untill it goes awy