Learning how to heal your injuries with herbs is a fundamental skill for any homesteader. Here's what you need to know about healing salves.

This all-purpose salve is good for so many things. The coconut oil and olive oil bring nourishment, while the beeswax is known to lock in moisture, foster cells, and protect skin from damaging environmental factors.

Comfrey salve is easy to make at home, using homegrown herbs or by purchasing dried comfrey. Studies show that comfrey is an effective herbal pain reliever when applied topically.

Learn how to make organic sunscreen at home to protect your skin against UVA and UVB rays without using harmful ingredients. This homemade waterproof sunscreen recipe is simple to make and easy to use.

Many of us suffer from hemorrhoids, and somehow the subject is taboo. I can’t understand why. After all, we all have a backside, and sometimes it needs medical care, like any other parts of our bod…

There are so many natural health benefits from plants you can grow. These holistic home remedies are the best items for your herbal medicine cabinet.

Thyme cough syrup made with honey and lemon is a useful homemade cough remedy to have on hand for cold and flu season for dry or wet coughs.This recipe makes about 2 cups.

Yarrow salve offers many medicinal and healing benefits, and it couldn't be easier to make at home. Yarrow is used topically to treat wounds and skin irritation, and it's been used since antiquity to help

NOTE: This article is about how to make an easy decongestant that really works! It’s a super simple recipe that uses common kitchen spices to fight congestion, stuffy noses, post nasal drip, and may ease difficult breathing by supporting the lungs. You can get rid of a stuffy nose and congestion nat

Make this simple & effective natural bug repellent with essential oils and other natural ingredients to keep mosquitos and insects away.

Learn how to make homemade cough syrup that's proven to provide cough relief. Plus, this DIY remedy is all-natural and super kid-friendly.

Making your own drawing salve is easier than you might think! This is the perfect recipe to have on hand for when you really need it.

A healing and soothing salve using the powerful herb Lemon Balm!

There are many natural remedies to speed up the healing process. Lets take a look at some natural ways to help wounds heal faster.

Try these simple, homemade cough drops the next time you find yourself with a cough or cold.

Homemade gum contains no artificial flavors, colors, or sweeteners whilst being deliciously chewable. We'll show you how to make it in five simple steps.

Have you tried sipping herbal teas for fibroids? Certain teas made out of herbs are medicinal and have healing properties that actually help shrink fibroids naturally.

How to Make Homemade Pain Relief Salve with Essential Oils! This homemade pain relief salve works great for all kinds of pains and aches, including sore muscles! It seems that more and more people suffer

Ever wondered "What in the world is a salve?" It's an oinment that's used to heal skin. Learn how to make and use an herbal salve in this simple guide.

Making your own homemade electrolyte drink is quick, naturally refreshing and much healthier – without all of the store-bought additives.

Herbal salve recipes are easy to make for a variety of uses. These salves incorporate herbs and can help to soothe, calm, and ease the skin.

In the early 90’s we listened to Bertha Reppert, founder of The Rosemary House talking about some simple home remedies, and within a few days, several of the actors at the Renaissance Festival where we had an herb shop showed up covered with poison ivy. Bertha had talked about steeping sage in apple cider vinegar, and we’d gone home and started a batch. It was very effective for the poor sweaty, suffering actors, and we were impressed. This couldn’t be simpler, and is just wonderful as is. Just fill a jar with sage from the garden (or grocery store) and cover with vinegar. If you’re in a hurry, heat the vinegar and steep the sage in it as you would an herbal tea. The following year we added plantain and jewelweed to the original brew, to add even more healing properties to the vinegar. We’ve used it ever since. I just made a quart up today. The ingredients are shown below. If you don’t have or know how to identify jewelweed, her cousin – garden impatiens is a good stand-in. We like to harvest jewelweed in the spring while the stems are succulent and full of juice. After it flowers, the stems get woody and aren’t worth much. Some people like to harvest the leaves and flowers after it blooms, but this is how we do it. The sage we grow here is Bergarten, which has a very high essential oil content. That’s really what we want to come through in the vinegar, so any garden sage is fine, but we like this one. In a pinch, you can even use the dried stuff in the spice aisle at the grocery store, but fresh will have more punch. Even city dwellers most likely have plantain in their midst. Plantain is exceptional for skin irritations, bug bites and stings, and all kinds of rashes. We have both types here, the long strappy lanceolata, and the large major, and use them interchangeably. All of the plants are chopped up and placed into the jar. Cutting them up (or even placing them into a blender with a little vinegar to get it going) helps release their properties into the vinegar. After all the plant matter is chopped and placed into the jar, it is covered with vinegar. I reserved some large plantain leaves and some jewelweed stems. The plant matter is carefully covered with the leaves, and then the stems are inserted in such a way as to hold everything below the surface. Be careful not to enclose air pockets under the leaves, though. All ready to sit and age for a couple of weeks. It is perfectly fine to leave everything as it is until needed. Then, just strain it out and apply to any area that has been exposed to poison ivy (preferably before a rash appears!). It stings slightly when applied, but will really help dry up a rash in a hurry. The other best remedy is to learn how to identify poison ivy and avoid it. We make a soap with jewelweed, plantain, and the essential oils of lavender and tea tree that works well after exposure = Happy Camper Soap and also have the vinegar spray on our website, but we’re very happy to encourage you to make it yourself. Or go all out and get the Outdoor Trio

Learn how to make homemade healing salve and you won't need to buy ointment for chapped lips, dry skin, cuts, scrapes, bruises or burns.

Are you looking for a natural, homemade cough syrup that really works? Here are a few old-fashioned recipes that are super simple to make!

This the best of both worlds - effective and tastes great! Try this super simple recipe for a healthier mouth.

Learn how to make calendula salve, and treat yourself and others to this nourishing herbal moisturizer made with calendula infused oil.

This homemade and healthy electrolyte drink keeps you hydrated while out in the sun or exercising. Plus, it's so easy to make and tastes great!

These homemade honey lemon cough drops are an easy recipe using real food ingredients. They're quick to make and help to soothe scratchy throats and niggling coughs with all-natural ingredients.

Learn how to make organic sunscreen at home to protect your skin against UVA and UVB rays without using harmful ingredients. This homemade waterproof sunscreen recipe is simple to make and easy to use.

Love aromatherapy? Make a DIY Reed Diffuser. This homemade diffuser is a great way to make your room smell great with a blend of your favorite essential oils.

This homemade cough syrup is a miracle drink that combines the healing benefits of apple cider vinegar, honey and various spices.

Body aches, headache, fatigue, redness, swelling, and painful breasts. The dreaded symptoms of mastitis that no breastfeeding mom has time for.

Making your own healing, nourishing, anxiety-soothing lavender oil is easy to do! It is also a very affordable option compared to so many other natural skincare products available. Use lavender oil to soothe rashes, sunburn, swelling, eczema, acne, stings, wounds, burns, scrapes, chicken pox, razor burn, and more. It can be used straight on its own as a face or body moisturizer, as an ingredient in other homemade skincare products like salves or creams, or even as a marinade - as long as an edible carrier oil is used!

Learn how to make your own DIY Calendula Comfrey Salve for minor scrapes and sore muscles. It's the perfect all-purpose healing herbal salve to have on...

Freshen up your mattress with a homemade, natural DIY mattress spray and perfect for bedding. Deter dust mites and keep your mattress smelling fresh with essential oils.

This red clover salve recipe is an easy salve to make from the red clover in your yard! Plus red clover is known to provide many benefits to the skin including anti-aging benefits.

Diverticulosis happens when pouches, or diverticula, form in the wall of the colon. If these pouches become infected or inflamed, it is called diverticulitis and it can be very painful. Most of us have diverticulosis, the small pouches that form, but they usually cause no problems for most people. A

Orange oil is great for cleaning all kinds of things -- and it smells fantastic. Better yet, it cuts grease and has antibacterial properties. But did you know you can actually make your own all-natural DIY orange oil? Here's how you can do it yourself without much hassle, and what you can do with it when it's done.

Learn how to make a DIY Belly Butter in order to redcue and prevent stretch marks naturally with ingredients like neroli oil and shea butter.

soothes and calms inflamed skin, quickly stopping the itching from bug bites, stings, rashes, and other skin irritations.

Make a quick easy homemade kitchen cough syrup from basic pantry ingredients in just a few minutes.

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