Nettle helps to ease skin or joint pain, osteoarthritis, and inflammatory skin conditions such as psoriasis and eczema, and hemorrhoids. It is also useful for swelling and nettle stings.   So nettle provides the sting and the antidote!

Bee Balm (also called Bergamot) has anti-fungal and anti-microbial properties making it useful for infections, scrapes, stings, and rashes. Bee balm can also help to slow bleeding and is a natural anti-septic.

Calendula has anti-viral, anti-inflammatory, and anti-fungal properties.  This salve helps with wounds, burns, cuts, bruises, varicose veins, scarring, dry skin, athlete’s foot or can be used as lip balm.

Comfrey is useful in bone healing, muscle/tendon/ligament re-building, and wounds, burns, sprains, and swelling.  St. John's Wort is helpful with pain relief, varicose veins, and skin cancer. This salve is a good one to have on hand for injuries.

Chickweed helps to cool skin inflammation and speeds healing for external flare-ups of itchy rashes, skin eruptions, eczema, arthritis and gout.  It is also gentle enough to use for diaper rash or irritated, itchy eyes.

Lemon Balm has strong anti-viral and anti-bacterial properties. It is especially useful for treating cold sores, herpes and shingles. This salve helps to soothe insect bites and wounds and is also an insect repellant.

Plantain is helpful for drawing out splinters, toxicity, and skin infections.   This salve helps to stop bleeding and soothe inflammatory skin conditions such as eczema, boils, and bee stings, hemorrhoids. 

Yarrow has antiseptic, anti-bacterial, and anti-inflammatory properties.  This salve helps with poison ivy, sunburn, stops minor bleeding, is a mosquito repellant, varicose veins and helps prevent infection.  It also eases hemorhoids and soothes bug bites. Another good one to have on hand!

Rosemary has anti-inflammatory, anti-viral, and anti-bacterial properties for skin infections.  This salve is helpful to ease soreness, loosen muscles, improve circulation in limbs, and warms cold hands and feet.  It also smells delightful!

Cleavers is helpful with acne, sunburn, psoriasis, eczema and other inflammatory skin conditions, such as poison ivy.  Lavender is also antiseptic and calming to the skin.