Make a plantain leaf salve - PEP BB medicine.sand.salve.plantain

The oil used was olive. I am saddened by the loss of that vibrant color, but I'm far lore likely to use a salve than an oil. The blend ratio I used was 4 parts oil to one part bee wax.

I turned my plantain oil into salve by adding beeswax. I wanted a soft salve, so I used a ratio of approximately 6:1, oil to wax.

For the oil, I harvested plantain, chickweed, and a little purple dead nettle and let them wilt for a few hours. Then I infused them in coconut oil over gentle heat for 24 hours.

Kevin Harbin wrote:This is a Badge Bit (BB) that is part of the PEP Curriculum. Completing this BB is part of getting the sand badge in Natural Medicine.

For this BB you will create a salve out of Plantain leaf.

- Make the Plantain leaf salve, and take a picture of it being made, and of it being finished.

Website pages on how to make Plantain leaf salve and the benefits of it:
https://mommypotamus.com/plantain-salve-recipe/

https://practicalselfreliance.com/plantain-salve/


To show you've completed this Badge Bit, you must post:
- a picture of your Plantain leaf, freshly harvested
- a picture of the Plantain leaf in the oil with a description of what oil and other ingredients you used
- a picture of your completed salve in its permanent, labeled container/jar

I made plantain salve using the recipe from Practical Self-Reliance (1 1/2 to 2 cups fresh plantain herb
1 1/4 to 1 1/2 cups Olive oil (or other neutral oil)
1 ounce Bees Wax)

I gathered plantain leaves at a friend’s house on April 13th, and refrigerated them covered with paper towels until I was at liberty to process them. On April 15th, I washed, surface-dried, chopped, and steeped them in jars of extra-virgin olive oil over a double-boiler on the stove for a 48-hour hot infusion. The next morning, I filtered out the leaves, poured the oil into a saucepan, and melted in a little over an ounce of beeswax, stirring well. I poured the liquid salve into clean jars and labeled them for storage.

Note: some of the leaves were wilted and darkened after refrigeration for two days, so I sorted them out and added some more I had picked later from my Mom’s yard

I made some plantain salve from plants in my yard and saved beeswax.



I gave it a lite dehydrate


crushed the plantain


3 hours on warm with olive oil


1ozish of beeswax


strained the mixture into the beeswax


All melty


finished salve

Plantain leaf salve was made from plantain leaf olive oil and adding bees wax

Kevin Harbin wrote:
For this BB you will create a salve out of Plantain leaf.

To show you've completed this Badge Bit, you must post:
- a picture of your Plantain leaf, freshly harvested
- a picture of the Plantain leaf in the oil with a description of what oil and other ingredients you used
- a picture of your completed salve in its permanent, labeled container/jar

I harvested and air dried plantain over the summer. Then I crushed the dried leaves, submerged it in 100g of EVOO, and baked at 180degF for 12 hours. I then strained the oil, heated it in a double broiled, and added 15g of beeswax until homogenous. Then I poured some of it into a mold, cooled it and put it in a labeled container.