Herbal healing salve

April 27, 2013

Today’s project: homemade salve with around a dozen herbs, olive oil, lanolin and beeswax. Miraculously the final mixture was exactly the right amount for the containers I had… not too much, not too little. Perfect.

I take that as a good omen.

Herbs used:
Comfrey
Echinacea
Plantain
Grindelia
Rosemary
Yarrow
Calendula
Chaparral
Chickweed
Agarita
Myrrh

All of these herbs were chosen for their skin healing, anti-microbial, or anti-itch/soothing qualities. I did not add essential oils for fragrance as I prefer it to smell “green.” 🙂

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Herbs and Herbal medicine, Making stuff

herbs, homemade

6 responses to “Herbal healing salve”

Lynn Rose Demartini

April 27, 2013

Expand on what you put in them!

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1. Jackie
  
  April 27, 2013
  
  I updated the post.
  
  I don’t have proportions written down, but the largest component other than the base ingredients was comfrey. In my experience that’s the key ingredient here.
  
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Rejoice For The Day

April 28, 2013

They look great! I am in desperate need to make some for myself. You really can’t go wrong with a good herbal salve. 🙂

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1. Jackie
  
  April 28, 2013
  
  A good video on how to make a salve can be found here, courtesy of Mountain Rose Herbs:
  
  They also have videos on how to make tinctures and infused oils. For my salve, I infused the oil with tincture and fresh material and let it simmer on very low heat in a crockpot this afternoon, until all the alcohol was evaporated away.
  
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jillbinder

April 20, 2014

Awesome! I just started into diy products myself. If you’re ever in Vancouver again, I’ll take you to the cool shops we have for the ingredients, fun jars, etc. 🙂

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1. Jackie Dana
  
  April 20, 2014
  
  You’re on! 🙂
  
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