Yarrow Balm

This recipe is one you’ll find very useful for dry lips or other dry skin areas. It features yarrow (Achillea millefolium), which is antibacterial, anti-inflammatory, astringent, and analgesic, making it perfect for coating, soothing, and protecting chapped lips or other dry skin.

Ingredients

4 teaspoons shea butter
2 teaspoons beeswax or soy wax
3 teaspoons dried Yarrow (Achillea millefolium) leaf and flower-infused avocado oil or oil of choice (see HERE to learn how to infuse herbs)

1 teaspoon coconut oil
5 drops vitamin E oil
4 drops peppermint (Mentha x piperita) essential oil

Directions

Melt beeswax and shea butter until it becomes liquid. A pan on the very lowest heat can be used with a jar inside a pot of water. The wax and butter will melt very quickly!
Add in yarrow oil and allow it to mix together.
Stir in coconut oil until melted.

Turn off the heat, add in vitamin E oil and peppermint essential oil, and mix together.
Pour liquid carefully into lip balm tubes, pots, or glass jar.

Allow your lip balm to cool and solidify. The process takes about an hour.

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A gardener and herbalist on a journey through life, growing and wildcrafting her own food and medicine. Trusting in the Lord, through health issues, overload of stress, and busy life, shares ideas and recipes that can help you pare down and heal too.

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