Healing Salve Lotion :: Recipe

I see people in Perfect Blog World, and Pinterest, who hand-craft their lotions and potions with such fervour that each particular handmade beauty lotion comes either in a vintage sweet tin, with printed labels (self designed, naturally, for you to download! free! for your use!) or a speciality bought proper tinted glass potion pot that probably cost ten times more than the ingredients for the actual handmade potion. And there isn't a spill or bit of slopped beeswax in sight!

Well, you'll have to forgive me and my rustic, penny-pinching, redneck ways. I use old jam (and coffee) jars (me so sexy). And I cellotape labels on. If I can find labels and a pen to write with. Some might be written in crayon. But pretty much all come with spills and splodges and designer-label free. I know. I should know better this far into the blogging gig...

Anyway, the Handmade Healing Salve is still responding to the morse code SOS that my eczema flare ups spell out... Saving Our Skin on a daily basis (it's amazing, truly), and the emails I've been getting (thankyou) seem to suggest you seem to like it too.

It really is going down a treat with the boys, especially the midget who now self-medicates his cuts and dry hands by reaching for the jar whenever he sees the need. But even though it borders on being a miracle, it's still quite hard to apply to large areas of the body say, after a bath. I needed a lotion, a healing lotion with a thinner consistency to allow larger surface area use. This pretty much meant beeswax had to leave the building - it does harden any potion up quite a bit, and so I dabbled around in the kitchen and eventually came up with this :: the Healing Salve LOTION.

So, again, the recipe here for you all to benefit from.


Handmade Healing Eczema Lotion

Ingredients

1 Cup Distilled water
1/2 Cup Olive Oil
1/2 Cup (Vegetable Based) Emulsifying Wax
1 (heaped) Tablespoon coconut solid oil
16 drops Lavender Essential Oil
16 drops Tea Tree Essential Oil

Make

Using a double boiler mix all the ingredients and stir until melted. Pour into a jar, label with date.



If you would like to use this as a facial moisturizer then leave the tea tree oil out (the smell might not be what you want on your face) or use as a night cream.

And there you have it. Simple but amazing.

Back tomorrow with a couple more handmade beauty lotion recipes to add to your collection! Enjoy!



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Homemade Healing Salve

You know, in my ideal world, the one where I have the Farm Of My Dreams (with the room of my own in that Farm), I would also have a huge cupboard, pantry even, full to the brim of mama-made things. Jars and jars would gleem, twinkle and wink whenever we opened the door, and I would have space to use both my arms at the same time as I reach for one or other of my many apparatus that I needed in some homemade concoction...













Yeah, so BACK AT REALITY, I in fact DO have a rather large-ish cupboard where I keep all my homesteading paraphernalia... where I place glass jars, soap making ingredients, cheese press, cheese clothe, yoghurt cultures and tucked away in there a teeny tiny apothecary case. See? Teeny tiny.

In that small case I keep a few bits and pieces; some essential oils that we use most often, beeswax, some lip salve tubs and tubes, and emulsifying wax, droppers blah blah blah. You get the idea. Stuff.

Things usually rolling off the production line include lip salves, toothpaste, deodrants, hand rubs and, this past week a healing salve cream.












I suffer from eczema. I've always had very dry skin anyway, but years of being the human buttwiper and unpaid skivvy has rapidly pushed that into a skin condition needing medical aid. The midget also has very dry skin and it's not unusual for one or both of us to sport cracks over our hands on cold days, knuckles split open and for me, contact dermatitis verging on leprosy! (Hyperbole utilised for literary expression, please don't email me lepers anonymous helplines or anything).

I had given up on ever being 'cured', and certainly nothing I've tried has ever given relief (apart from Nettle Tea to some degree), but after some advice from a sister I added just one extra ingredient to my recent batch of hand salve, and, oh my goodness, WHAT a difference it has made.

It soothes, eases pain, reduces scarring and heals the skin so quickly. It's almost a miracle and I am thankful for the sisterly advice which has meant me and my boy no longer suffer as much and in the hope that this will benefit others I offer the recipe here with the amazing TEA TREE OIL as the miracle ingredient.

So here is our recipe that we have found so so helpful. Make some why don't you? Even those of you who have perfect skin will still love this added healthy boost to your mitts....






Healing Salve Cream Recipe

Ingredients

4 Tablespoons beeswax (grated or pellets)
2 Tablespoons coconut solid oil
12 Tablespoons olive oil
8-12 Drops lavender essential oil
8-12 Drops tea tree essential oil

Method

In a double boiler (old baked bean tin will do, or a milk pan) place all the ingredients together and place in a pan of boiling water until all the wax and oils have melted together. Stir with a fork to mix together. Once mixed, pour the liquid into a jar and leave to set.

Add a label and the date it was made.


And there you have it. A homemade soothing hand cream without the nasties found in shop-bought equivalents. And it works!





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