Dandelion Salve
- Sarah
- Jul 3, 2023
- 2 min read
Updated: Mar 27
This moisturizing salve is perfect for soothing dry cracked skin, helping sore and painful muscles, and makes a great lip balm!
This post may contain affiliate links. Read our disclaimer
The first step in making dandelion salve is to make dandelion infused oil. You can learn how to do that here! https://thesproutinghomestead.com/dandelion-infused-oil/
Dandelion Salve Recipe
Shelf life of salves is at least 9 months to a year.
Making this dandelion salve incredibly easy once your dandelion infused oil ready.
First you will need to warm the oil in a double boiler. You can create a double boiler by putting a small heat safe bowl or a glass Pyrex measuring cup over a pot with about an inch of simmering water. Just make sure the water isn’t directly touching the bowl.
Put the dandelion oil, beeswax and shea butter into the small bowl or glass measuring cup, and heat until everything completely dissolves stirring occasionally.
Add 10-15 drops of essential oils if you’d like, lavender, orange, and eucalyptus are my favourite.
Carefully pour the warm mixture into small jars or tins, working quickly as it cools fast. Let sit until the salve sets up completely.
This recipe makes about 12 ounces of salve, or six 2 ounce tins. I used these metal 2 ounce tins.
How to use Dandelion Salve:
Dandelions have pain-relieving properties. The salve can simply be rubbed into sore and tense muscles or joints.
Helpful for cuts, scrapes, minor burns, sunburns, bug bites, or skin irritation, apply salve to the injury. It will help the wound heal and also nourish and moisturize the skin.
Use it as an under eye cream, lip balm, cuticle oil, for dry cracked skin.
These also make great gifts!