Bee Balm Salve
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.
Borage Salve
Borage helps to rejuvenate mature or damaged skin, or skin prone to breakouts due to hormonal fluctuations. This salve is anti-inflammatory and helps to improve skin elasticity and cell strength.
Calendula Salve
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.
Chickweed Salve
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.
Cleavers Salve
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.
Comfrey/ St. John’s Wort Salve
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.
Dandelion Salve
Anti-inflammatory to soothe skin irritations. Helps to relieve the pain of sore muscles and arthritis. Helpful with liver and kidney ailments.
Fir also helps to increase blood circulation and promote healing of sore muscles and joints.
Eucalyptus/Peppermint Salve
Anti-viral, anti-inflammatory, antiseptic, anti-bacterial, anti-fungal. Helps with respiratory ailments, sore muscles, fever reducer, help clear nasal passages, helps ease allergy symptoms.
Lemon Balm Salve
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.
Nettle Salve
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!
Plantain Salve
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.
Red Clover Salve
Anti-inflammatory for Eczema, Psoriasis, cuts, burns. High in isoflavonoids for anti- aging, increases collagen production, improves elasticity, reduces wrinkles, adds moisture, and improves skin thickness. Slows signs of aging.
Rosemary Salve
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!
Tulsi Salve
Anti-viral, anti-inflammatory, anti-fungal, anti-bacterial, helps with skin irritations /inflamed joints, stress/pain reliever, skin calming for rashes, wounds, burns, anti-oxidant rich, moisture retentive, rub on soles of feet for restful sleep
Yarrow Salve
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!
REMEDY KEY FOR HERBAL SALVES:
Acne – Cleavers
Anti-Bacterial (helps overcome bacterial infections, strengthens the immune system) – Lemon Balm, Rosemary, Yarrow
Anti-Fungal (helps destroy or prevents the growth of fungal infections) - Calendula
Anti-Inflammatory (helps reduce inflammation) – Yarrow, St John’s Wort, Plantain
Anti-Septic (helps combat and neutralize pathogenic bacteria, helps prevent infections) – Yarrow
Anti-Viral (helps to combat and neutralize pathogenic viruses) – Lemon Balm, Calendula
Arthritis – Chickweed
Athlete’s Foot – Calendula
Bleeding – Plantain, Yarrow, Bee Balm
Boils – Plantain
Bone Healing - Comfrey
Bruises – Comfrey
Bug Bites – Lemon Balm, Yarrow, Calendula
Burns – Calendula, Comfrey
Cold Sores – Lemon Balm
Cuts/Scrapes – Calendula, Yarrow, Plantain, Bee Balm
Diaper Rash – Chickweed
Eczema – Cleavers, Chickweed, Nettle, Plantain
Eye Irritations - Chickweed
Herpes – Lemon Balm
Hemorrhoids – Plantain, Yarrow
Insect Repellant – Lemon Balm, Yarrow
Infections – Bee Balm, Plantain, Rosemary, Yarrow
Osteoarthritis – Nettle
Pain – Nettle, St John’s Wort
Poison Ivy – Cleavers, Yarrow
Psoriasis – Cleavers, Nettle
Rashes – Chickweed, Bee Balm
Scarring – Calendula, Borage
Shingles – Lemon Balm
Splinters – Plantain
Sprains – Comfrey
Stings – Plantain, Nettle, Bee Balm
Sunburn – Cleavers, Yarrow
Swelling – Comfrey, Nettle
Varicose Veins – Calendula, St John’s Wort, Yarrow
Wounds – Calendula, Comfrey, Lemon Balm
Wrinkles - Borage
These herbs have not been evaluated by the US Food and Drug Administration. These products are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease. Always notify your physician of any herbal products/supplements you may be using internally.
In addition, because of the potential for side effects and interactions with medications it is crucial that you always speak to a knowledgeable healthcare provider before taking any dietary supplements. This advice is also recommended for anyone suffering from a health condition.
Pregnant and nursing women should only take these products after consulting your physician.