Showing posts with label salve. Show all posts
Showing posts with label salve. Show all posts

8.6.10

Muscle Mend

Back, again.

I have found recently that I can't live without Burt's Bees Muscle Mend. It helps with little scrapes and bruises and cuts down on some of the surface soreness in my knee. But it's really expensive and I'm really broke and can't work because of my knee and we're going to Croatia in July; so even if I could get a job now, I'd be taking off for a month about a month after I started. I looked up the ingredients and using my limited knowledge of creams and salves I came up with a fairly simple recipe for my own beeswax based muscle mend. The main focus is clove powder, for the antiseptic and numbing properties. So more bulletin board play and I have a pretty picture for you, sorry again if you can't read it on here, but if you click it you can see the full sized pic.

Still too poor to try to get the stuff to make this, but I'm getting there. Until next time, happy reading.

All pics and price quotes are from Mountain Rose Herbs no copyright infringement is intended.

7.6.10

Bruise Salve

First legitimate post!! So, I've been playing with the bulletin board app on the new Toshiba I got for graduation and decided to see what I could do. This is a blend of recipes that I found and have yet to try. If anyone wants to try it and tell me how it goes or has experience and can give me pointers that would be great!


sorry about the bad quality you can click it to see the full sized image, but here's what it says:

Ingredients
  • 3oz Kokum Butter
  • 1/2oz Calendula Flowers
  • 1/4oz Fenugreek Seed
  • 1/4oz Thyme Leaf
  • 1oz St. John's Wort
  • 2.5oz Kukui Nut Oil



Directions
  1. Gently crush seeds with mortar and pestil (do not powder)
  2. Put herbs and seed in medium wide-mouth jar
  3. Cover with 2.5oz boiling oil
  4. Let steep until cool
  5. Melt butter in double boiler or microwave
  6. Strain oil into butter and stir until smooth
  7. Pour into tins or tubes and let set
Until next time, happy reading.




all pictures and price quotes(if you can read them) are from Mountain Rose Herbs, not copyright infringement is intended.