Welcome, Sister! I’d love to support you along your journey in making natural, clean, healthy, herbal living a simple art that YOU can do too, no matter where you live. I'll help you to: 🌿 Use herbs and essential oils confidently and correctly for amazing wellness 🌹Make your own natural skincare and body care products 🍅 Grow your own herbs and vegetables for medicine and food 🌿Forage wild medicinal plants without fear 🌶 Cook and preserve real food from scratch 🥰 Clean your home with natural homemade products that work!
You NEED this in your home medicine chest🌼
Good Monday morning, my friend!!
Last month for the Arnica masterclass in the Confident Herbalist Tribe group one of the recipes was a formulation for Arnica-Comfrey salve with yarrow and other EO's that is seriously A-Mazing. This is the BEST salve I've made for bruising, sore muscles from overwork, and general pain caused by inflammation.
The secret is in the herbs and essential oils I used in the salve. Arnica has been used for jillions of years for topical pains. Plastic surgeons even suggest it as a precursor to surgery and also for after-care. Comfrey is another herb that herbalists use very sparingly internally, but for topical use, it has powerful skin healing, anti-inflammatory, and moisturizing benefits. I love comfrey!
For the essential oils...yes, I do love using my herbs and essential oils together in many ways. The essential oils provide a potent synergistic effect (working with the herbal actions) to make this salve a significantly powerful addition to your home apothecary.
I used yarrow, helichrysum, and frankincense. All are excellent for topical inflammation. The yarrow happens to be a blue oil, containing chamazulene, and this makes it an all-out winner in the BEST category for inflammation. (Any of the other blue oils will work, as they contain the same compound, but yarrow is specified for the skin.)
On top of the benefits....this is truly the most beautiful color of salve I've ever formulated. It's a deep turquoise blue-green. It's gorgeous. I think it would make a GREAT Father's Day gift! You can use the fast method to infuse the herbal oils if you don't have them at the ready.
Here's the recipe for you:
The BEST Arnica-Comfrey Salve EVER
This is on my YouTube channel, and I do mean to write up an article for this special plant gift from our Creator. Stay tuned for that. I hope you'll check out the video, and like and subscribe to my channel!
Thanks for being so special to me and for being here,
Hugs, Health, and Self-Reliance,
Heidi
P.S. If this recipe sounds like something a friend of yours might enjoy, please do forward this note along and/or share the video!
Hi! I'm Heidi Villegas
Welcome, Sister! I’d love to support you along your journey in making natural, clean, healthy, herbal living a simple art that YOU can do too, no matter where you live. I'll help you to: 🌿 Use herbs and essential oils confidently and correctly for amazing wellness 🌹Make your own natural skincare and body care products 🍅 Grow your own herbs and vegetables for medicine and food 🌿Forage wild medicinal plants without fear 🌶 Cook and preserve real food from scratch 🥰 Clean your home with natural homemade products that work!
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