How To Make Calendula Salve For Your Skin

Calendula salve is a must-have in any household because it can be applied to scrapes, skinned knees, burns, rashes, etc. to promote rapid healing. I don’t leave home without it!

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Calendula salve is a great diaper bag essential, gift, or generally stocked in your medicine cabinet for healing the skin! Once you have a jar of salve, you won’t be able to live with out it!

Let me show you how to make a simple calendula salve!

Calendula Benefits

Calendula is a versatile herb that should be in every mother’s medicine cabinet. Calendula is commonly used to heal the skin, but it can also be made into a tea or tincture to detoxify the body. 

Calendula is also an antiseptic which means it kills germs that may cause an infection.

How I Use Calendula Salve

As a mom, I have little jars of calendula salve all over my house and in my diaper bag. I never leave home without it!

I use salve in a variety of ways for myself and for my children. I use it for . . . 

• Rashes
• Cuts
• Scrapes
• Diaper rash
• Eczema
• Sunburn

If there is some sort of skin condition, you name it, I am putting calendula salve on it!

How to Make Calendula Salve

For a quality salve, you will want to use organic, unrefined coconut oil, organic dried calendula, and organic beeswax.

Start by filling a glass quart jar with 2 cups of dried calendula flowers.

Then, add 2 cups of organic, unrefined coconut oil.

Place the mason jar in a pot and fill the pot with water.

Turn the heat to medium until the water begins to boil. Then turn the heat down to a simmer. Keep an eye on the pot and continually add water as needed. Simmer for 2 hours.

After the coconut oil and dried calendula flowers have simmered for 2-3 hours, strain out the flowers and drain the oil into a clean jar. I like to use a funnel with a sieve attachment.

Allow the oil to sit and strain for 10 minutes before making your salve.

Next, pour the calendula oil back into a pot on the stove and add 3/4 cup of organic beeswax. 

Cook the calendula oil and beeswax on low and stir constantly until the beeswax is completely melted.

Once the beeswax has melted, pour the hot salve into amber glass salve jars. Work quickly before the salve begins to cool and harden.

Allow the salves to completely cool and harden before putting a lid on the jars. Store the jars in a cool, dark place.

Once you begin using calendula salve and you see amazing and quick healing, you won’t go back to over-the-counter creams! Make a batch today!