Herbal Salve

Herbal salves are so easy to make and healthy to use.  This herbal salve is one of my MUST have crunchy items.  I make several tins at a time to have on hand for personal use and give to friends. This herbal salve recipe contains comfrey, an amazing skin healer and garlic, a great, readily available herb with reported antibiotic properties. With this herbal  salve you can treat about any rash, itch or bump that comes your way.

Herbal Skin Salve 1 : Comfrey Wound Salve:

This herbal salve recipe is my take on an antibiotic ointment. It is easily made and works wonderfully for minor wounds, scrapes, burns, and irritation.  I call it “Wound Warrior Salve”

While this recipe is for a soothing and healing salve, the recipe can be tweaked easily, ingredients taken out or added to make your very own salve. The steps and base ingredients (carrier oil, bee’s wax, vitamin C powder, and emulsifying wax) remain the same, only the herbs and essential oils change.

Herbal Salve Disclosure 

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What’s the purpose of each of the herbs contained in this herbal salve?

• Comfrey: is a MIRACULOUS wound healer. Traditionally known as a contact healer, relieving pain and immediately helping to grow new flesh. The Latin name itself translates “knitting together.” Comfrey should NOT be used on deep cuts or puncture woulds because it can heal the skin too quickly over the wound. 
• Garlic: is anti-fungal, antibacterial, and antiviral. Garlic is called nature’s antibiotic. It contains allicin, a natural antibiotic. One milligram of allicin has a potency of 15 standard units of penicillin. It is effective against toxic bacteria, viruses, and fungi and also active against staphylococcus and E. coli bacteria
• Burdock Root: One of the best herbs for chronic skin problems. Used in a salve or tea (wash) it is often used to treat acne, burns, and sores. Traditionally used for eczema, hives, skin cancers, viral skin infections, etc.
• Mullein: is a natural painkiller and helps to reduce swelling
• Chamomile :reduces inflammation
• Echinacea: is a contact healer. It can be used for a variety of inflammatory conditions externally
• Honey: Packed full of enzymes, vitamins, minerals and antioxidants, healing agents. Honey, like garlic, has so many good properties that you will have to conduct your own research.
  Olive Oil & Coconut Oil:are both extremely soothing and healing to the skin. You can also add vitamin E oil, almond oil or any other carrier oil you like to your salve.

Herbal skin salves

This video tutorial will give you a closer look at how this herbal salve is made. The salve I am making in the video may use different herbs but the steps are the same.

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Herbal Salve

Course

Herbal Remedy

Servings

Ingredients

• 4 parts Comfrey Leaf
• 1 part Burdock Root
• 1 part Echinacea Tops & Leaves
• 1 part Mullien Leaf
• 1 part Chamomile Flowers
• 1-3 cloves garlic
• 4-6 Tablespoons Raw Honey Manuka honey is the absolute best for skin and wounds
• olive oil
• Coconut Oil
• Bee's Wax
• Emulsifying Wax makes water and oil mix
• teaspoon Vitamin C Powder as a preservative

Course Herbal Remedy Servings Ingredients 4 parts Comfrey Leaf 1 part Burdock Root 1 part Echinacea Tops & Leaves 1 part Mullien Leaf 1 part Chamomile Flowers 1-3 cloves garlic 4-6 Tablespoons Raw Honey Manuka honey is the absolute best for skin and wounds olive oil Coconut Oil Bee's Wax Emulsifying Wax makes water and oil mix teaspoon Vitamin C Powder as a preservative

Instructions

1. Add all herbs to pot, cover with oil(just an inch or so above the herbs, warm just a little.
2. Place the entire mix in the blender. Puree, blend, mince, chop, all the settings, just grind the herbs as much as possible to extract as much as possible into the oil.
3. Pour the mix back into the pot or crock pot.
4. Heat the herb mixture over very, very, low heat. You do not want to scorch, burn, or over-heat the herbs. Just get them warm and then let them stay warm for many hours.
5. Strain the herb mixture.
6. Add the bees wax and emulsifying wax.
7. Test the consistency.
8. Add the wax a little at a time, let it melt, stir the mix well, then drop a few drops out onto a plate. The salve should harden at room temp, and stay ointment like when rubbed on the skin. If it turns back to oil and runs off the skin then it is probably too thin and needs more wax. If it stays stiff and does not melt at all on the skin (body temp) then it is probably too firm, add more oil. 🙂
9. Add the honey immediately after you get the consistency right and the heat turned off. Do not heat the honey if you can avoid it. Raw honey contains beneficial bacteria that helps fight infection.
10. You can store the salve in glass jars, plastic containers, or tins.

Recipe Notes

All the herbs are equal parts, except the comfrey. Enough coconut and olive oil to cover the herbs (equal parts of each). Beeswax is added at the end to make the salve solidify, the amount will vary depending on the consistency you want in your salve. Emulsifying Wax makes oil and water bond together, keeping your salve from separating. I do not add any water but sometimes the herbs will contain water. Vitamin C is added as a preservative, too much will make your salve burn when applied to wounds. If you do not have vitamin C powder on hand, you can empty vitamin C capsules or crush tablets, just make sure they have no other added ingredients. Honey should not be heated.

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