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Home Remedy for Burn

Make this simple lavender burn home remedy... a herbal salve for burns, bites and bruises (and cuts!)




This easy to make home remedy for burn, bites, bruises and cuts relieves pain, speeds up the healing process and reduces scarring. Plus, it smells wonderful!


A simple lavender salve, this recipe uses shea butter and other healing oils, herbs and essential oils to make a gentle yet powerful healer for damaged skin.


A salve is simply a healing ointment for the skin, usually a base of beeswax and oil. Herbal medicine has been used for thousands of years to heal injuries. Herbal salve recipes have been in existence about that long too - because they work!


Lavender Home Remedy for Burn

Ingredients

  • 1/4 cup Shea Butter
  • 1 tablespoon Beeswax, grated
  • 1 tablespoon Virgin Coconut oil, Sweet Almond oil or Rosehip oil
  • 1/4 teaspoon (or 1 capsule) Vitamin E
  • 10 drops Lavender essential oil

Directions

  1. Place the shea butter, beeswax and oil in the top part of a double boiler, warming slowly over a VERY low heat until they're melted
  2. Remove from heat and add the lavender essential oil and vitamin E.
  3. Pour into a dark glass or PET plastic jar. Store in a cool, dark place.

Note: Increasing the beeswax will make the salve more solid, while increasing the oil will make it softer.


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Powering Up Your Home Remedy Burn Treatment

You can strengthen the healing powers of your home remedy for burn salve by making a herb infused oil. Each of the herbs listed below is partcularly effective for healing burns, wounds and such.


  • Mix 1 part dried herbs (such as calendula, comfrey, lavender or St. John's wort) with 2 parts oil (such as sweet almond or olive) in a container. Leave the mixture in a warm place for two or three weeks.
  • Strain out the herbs and store the oil in a cool, dark place. The longer the herbs are left in the oil, the stronger it will be.

Click to buy calendula, comfrey, lavender, St. John's wort or sweet almond oil.

Other good carrier oils for burns are kukui nut oil, macadamia nut oil and olive oil.


Where to Buy Burn Home Remedy Ingredients

My favorite American supplier is Mountain Rose Herbs. Their prices are excellent, their staff are friendly and helpful, and the quality of their products is good. Here's some quick links to the ingredients you'll need for this home remedy burn treatment...


Rosehip oil

Vitamin E oil

Lavender essential oil

Glass jars



Where to Buy Natural Burn Remedies

Mountain Rose also carries some very effective natural burn remedies. Check these out...


St. John's Wort Herbal Oil
Replace the coconut, sweet almond or rosehip oil in the salve recipe above to strengthen your home remedy burn treatment. Or just apply it all by itself. St. John's Wort is a strong healer!

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Comfrey Salve
An excellent "super salve" for healing skin, including superficial burns, minor nerve damage, inflammation and other minor injuries. Includes comfrey, St. John's Wort flowers and calendula.


Aloe vera gel
A famous home remedy for burns, wounds and skin conditions, aloe vera is soothing, cooling and healing. Just rub directly onto burned skin (gently!)


What Next?

To make a home remedy for burn that's a little easier to use for all-over skin application, try this Lavender Lotion recipe. It's good for soothing sunburned, itchy skin - and your cranky, yucky mood!


Peppermint Lotion is also good for cooling and soothing hot, thirsty skin.

And, of course, making your own Sunscreen is a good way to prevent sunburn in the first place.


If you want to find more recipes with lavender in them, use the search box below.

Simply type in "lavender" (without the quotes) and hit Search. Every page on this website that includes the word Lavender will pop up. Poke through them and decide what recipe to try next.


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Buying Recipe Ingredients

Mountain Rose Herbs is my favorite supplier.

Here's some quick links for buying this recipe's ingredients.

Lavender essential oil

Calendula

Comfrey

Lavender flowers

St. John's wort

Shea butter

Beeswax

Coconut oil

Kukui nut oil

Macadamia nut oil

Olive oil

Rosehip oil

St. John's Wort oil

Sweet almond oil

Vitamin E oil

Glass jars

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Mountain Rose Herbs also carries some very effective natural burn remedies. Check these out...

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