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This homemade healing salve is helpful on cuts, bruises, stings, poison ivy and skin irritations. It also helps diaper rash and baby skin irritations- just don’t use with cloth diapers ...
This homemade healing salve is helpful on cuts, bruises, stings, poison ivy and skin irritations. It also helps diaper rash and baby skin irritations- just don’t use with cloth diapers ...
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It’s easy to make and some of the ingredients even grow in your front yard during the summer. The picture is Plantain, which grows in most parts of the country and is great for the skin. Most people just know it as a common garden weed.
This salve is naturally antibiotic, anti-inflammatory, anti-fungal and astringent. It also doesn’t contain petroleum! I never goes bad, so I make it in big batches, but you can reduce the size if needed. I always keep this on hand while gardening for skin irritations and bug bites.
You Will Need:
2 cups of olive or almond oil
1 tsp echinacea root (optional)
2 tablespoons comfrey leaf
2 tablespoons of plantain leaf (herb-not banana!)
1 tablespoon of calendula flowers (optional)
1 teaspoon yarrow flowers (optional)
1 teaspoon of rosemary leaf (optional)
1/4 cup beeswax pastilles
1/2 tsp grapefruit seed extract or vitamin E oil to preserve
How To Make Healing Salve:
Infuse the herbs into the olive oil. There are two ways to do this. You can either combine the herbs and the olive oil in a jar with an airtight lid and leave 3-4 weeks, shaking daily OR heat the herbs and olive oil over low/low heat in a double boiler for 3 hours (low heat!) until the oil is very green.
Strain her herbs out of the oil by pouring through a cheesecloth. Let all the oil drip out and then squeeze the herbs to get the remaining oil out.
Discard the herbs.
Heat the infused oil in a double boiler with the beeswax until melted and mixed.
Pour into small tins, glass jars or lip chap tubes and use on bites, stings, cuts, poison ivy, diaper rash or other wounds as needed.
~ By Wellness Mama
It’s easy to make and some of the ingredients even grow in your front yard during the summer. The picture is Plantain, which grows in most parts of the country and is great for the skin. Most people just know it as a common garden weed.
This salve is naturally antibiotic, anti-inflammatory, anti-fungal and astringent. It also doesn’t contain petroleum! I never goes bad, so I make it in big batches, but you can reduce the size if needed. I always keep this on hand while gardening for skin irritations and bug bites.
You Will Need:
2 cups of olive or almond oil
1 tsp echinacea root (optional)
2 tablespoons comfrey leaf
2 tablespoons of plantain leaf (herb-not banana!)
1 tablespoon of calendula flowers (optional)
1 teaspoon yarrow flowers (optional)
1 teaspoon of rosemary leaf (optional)
1/4 cup beeswax pastilles
1/2 tsp grapefruit seed extract or vitamin E oil to preserve
How To Make Healing Salve:
Infuse the herbs into the olive oil. There are two ways to do this. You can either combine the herbs and the olive oil in a jar with an airtight lid and leave 3-4 weeks, shaking daily OR heat the herbs and olive oil over low/low heat in a double boiler for 3 hours (low heat!) until the oil is very green.
Strain her herbs out of the oil by pouring through a cheesecloth. Let all the oil drip out and then squeeze the herbs to get the remaining oil out.
Discard the herbs.
Heat the infused oil in a double boiler with the beeswax until melted and mixed.
Pour into small tins, glass jars or lip chap tubes and use on bites, stings, cuts, poison ivy, diaper rash or other wounds as needed.
~ By Wellness Mama
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