Healing Hand Cream

 

Ingredients:

• 2 tablespoons shea butter 
• 2 tablespoons coconut oil 
• 1 tablespoon aloe vera gel 
• 2 tablespoons sweet almond oil 
• 10 drops lavender essential oil 
• 1 teaspoon colloidal oatmeal (finely ground) 

Instructions

In the top of a double boiler, melt the Shea butter and coconut oil together. 

Remove from heat and stir in the Aloe Vera gel and sweet almond oil. 

Once the mixture is cooled slightly, add the lavender essential oil and mix well. 

Add the finely ground oatmeal and stir until combined. 

Store at room temperature. 

 *Not intended to be medical advice**

Soothing Oil Rub 

Could offer relief for arthritis pain: rub a small amount into your joints and muscles

1 small cayenne pepper, chopped with seeds

1/2 cup vegetable oil

2 tablespoons grated beeswax

• Combine pepper and oil and gently heat over a double boiler

• Let sit until cooled

• Strain and discard the pepper and seeds

• Add beeswax and heat until beeswax is melted

• Stir well, spoon into a container and let it cool

Cold Syrup

 

2 lemons, sliced

10-12 whole cloves

2 cinnamon sticks, broken or cinnamon chips

ginger, about an inch long, peeled and sliced. 

Place the lemons, cloves, cinnamon and ginger in a jar.  Cover with local, raw homey and makes sure it covers all the other ingredients.  I covered it with fresh, raw local honey & worked it down into the jar with a chopstick. Continue to add honey as it settles.  Set in a cool, dark place for 3 days, or longer, stir occasionally.  

Strain, store in refrigerator and use, as needed. 

You can dehydrate the solids and use them in teas or crush them in a blender and add that way (dehydrate before trying to put in the blender.)