Herbal Salve making Basics

Herbal Salve Recipe Basics

Did you ever wonder why salves are so good for everyday use for example how about a bee pollen salve is so powerful for the skin,  where bee pollen is cold infused into the oils used in your salve recipe. Bee pollen is a powerful skin care aid in cell regeneration because of the flavanoids,antioxidants, vitamins, minerals and amino acids but particularly because of its pure form of b complex vitamins . Domestic Bee pollen due to the bees cross pollination process(s) allow this. providing a new and powerful source of cell regeneration of the skin.

Herbal healing salves are great for everyday use and are very powerful in healing Wounds, Cuts, Sores, Bug Bites with little or no scaring They are also used for sore muscles and actually extracting infections and  poisons from a wound. and a good black salve can over time pull a small splinter out of a wound or hard to get area.

Follow this category to get the recipes for many salves

Below is a simple recipe for a general healing salve to help you understand how salves are made and to be used as a base recipe for other salves you desire.

There are many different types of salve used for different purposes. E.G.  

• To draw out a poison or infection of some sort one can use a black salve. 
• For Burns of all degrees one can use a good burn salve.
• For. Cuts and bruised one can use a general healing salve
• For Injuries one can use a  sprain salve
• For poor Circulation, reumatory arthritis, and or joint pain or even to help stimulate blood circulation in specific ares of the body through a topical process one can use a circulation Salve
• For inflammation one may use an powerful anti-inflammatory salve.
• For Eczema use a lavender tea tree, oregano,plantain salve
• and these are just a few salves 

Making The Salve:

What You Will Need:

• 1 ounce of pure Beeswax
• 8 ounces of herbal infused oil
• Lavender essential oil
• tea tree essential oil
• vitamin e liquid capsules ( to use as a preserver to get more of a shelf life of the salve)
• stainless or enamel pot
• potato ricer or cheese cloth for pressing the oil soaked herb(s)
• Glass jar for storage ( Small baby food jars work great)
• 2 cup pyrex measure cup (for transferring liquid salve into containers or tins)

Here is a video on a simple healing Salve that can be used everyday everywhere for cuts, bruises, bug bites, dry skin, burns, and sore muscles as well as vascular veins.

I.  First you will need to make an infused oil:

Cold infused oils: ( better quality salves and longer shelf life)

Take 6 ounces of your herb or her combination (in total) and place in a quart size mason or glass jar.

Add a Good quality olive oil and stir very well.

Let sit for a min. of 4 weeks to achieve a good quality infusion. Some say 2 weeks (I go 4 weeks and try to make extra so I always have some ready to make a batch of salves

after the 4 weeks strain and press herbs back into the stained oil.

Warm infused oils: ( Quicker good for quick needs but has a shorter shelf life)

 In a  stainless steel or enamel pot add 1 1/2 cups of good quality olive oil  and bring to a very low simmer once you reach the simmer point back off the heat

Add  6 ounces of your herb or her combination (in total) .

stay on low or warm for 1 hour.

After one hour take off stove and let oil cool. Once cool stain and press

II. Making the salve liquid to pour into your containers:

1. Add once ounce of pure beeswax and slowly melt it completely
2. Once completely melted, add infused oil to the melted beeswax.
3. You will notice it will solidify at this point just let it all remelt together as one liquid.
4. Once completely a warm liquid add to pyrex measure cup and quickly pour into your containers.
5.  While still in liquid form break and add vitamin E liquid of one capsule and then add essential oils 2-3 drops of each per container. 
6. Let harden and use as needed