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Making an herbal heal-all salve

 
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Thanks everyone for all of this great information, I'm just getting started. Anyone making salves with rose petals or violet leaves? I'm starting out with plantain, calendula and lemon balm. Will the violet and or rose add anything these don't already provide?
 
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Jill, Violet has use as an antiseptic, Rose as an astringent.  Plus both will often make one smile!

My all around, go to for everything boo-boo salve was Arnica, Calndula and Thyme.  One ounce of bees wax per cup of infused oil.

Peace
 
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I forgot to tell you the amount of each dry herb, I used +/- one third cup of each, more or less.  I guess that I used more of the calendula than the other two, because when you buy calendula you recieve the whole dried flower head and I feel that the healing power was in the petals.

Place everything in a clean old half gallon mason jar and let it sit in a dark cabinet for a full cycle of the moon.

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@HeatherSharpe "I just made a new blend of plantain, goldenrod and mullein and am quite pleased with that."

Are you using mullein leaf, root, or flower infused oil here?
 
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