Making Homemade Healing Salve
We have homemade salves a few times over the past five years. We have made healing salve, balm of Gilead, and St. Michael's oil. Each of these are wonderful salves with slightly different beneficial properties. We have given away several jars from each batch (these make lovely gifts!) and they have all been well received by the recipients. Of the three kinds we have made so far, our all-purpose, go-to salve has been the Herbal Healing Salve . Each batch is slightly different based on what infused oils we make and use each year, but the basic recipe we follow is this one we put on our website. We have used this for rashes, cuts, bruises, dry skin, swollen tissues, and insect bites. We were nearly out of the healing salve we made a couple of years ago, so it was time to make more. We started this year's batch by solar infusing a mix of olive oil, coconut oil, and avocado oil with calendula, plantain, and a small amount of comfrey. Once that was done infusing (see DIY Infused Oil...