Dry Skin Salve
Dry Skin Salve
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Deb's been hand-making her dry skin salve since 1985:
She starts with vibrant green organic olive oil and combines it with a unique bouquet of organic and regenerative herbs from her garden.
She gentle-infuses her herbs into the oil for 14 days, resulting in a deeply rich botanical oil. She then melts in enough local beeswax to add firmness.
The result is one of the highest quality dry skin salves available.
Deeply moisturizing and nourishing to the skin, it provides exquisite after-care to a busy day in the garden or any activity that dries out the skin.
It is appropriate and effective on trouble spots anywhere on the body. Deb uses it on her face, hands, fingers, feet and lips.
Size: 2oz glass jar
When to reach for it: After a busy day in the garden. When the air is cold or the wind is rough. When frequently washing your hands or any time you'd reach for hand cream. After a shower, bath, or a foot soak. When your muscles or tissues need some extra love.
Ingredients:
- Organic Cold Pressed Olive Oil infused with Biodynamic Comfrey (Symphytum officinale) root and leaf
- Biodynamic Calendula flower (Calendula officinalis)
- Biodynamic St. John's Wort flowering top (Hypericum perforatum)
- Organic Alfalfa leaf (Medicago sativa)
- Biodynamic Sweet Basil leaf (Ocimum basilicum)
- Biodynamic Borage leaf (Borago officinalis)
- Biodynamic Red Clover blossom (Trifolium pratense)
- Biodynamic Plantain leaf (Plantago major)
- local Beeswax
This product is free of essential oil concentrates.
Plant Profiles:
Calendula (Calendula officinalis) - These sunny flowers are as generous in healing benefits and gifts as they are joyfully and abundantly growing in our gardens. We hand-gather over 100 pounds of fresh flowers each summer and carefully lay them out to dry for our salves, crèmes, and oils. When used topically on skin and mucous membranes, Calendula supports healthy tissues. The highly resinous flowers have soothing qualities.
Comfrey (Symphytum officinale) - We gather and dry both the leaf and root from our Biodynamic gardens for more of the Comfrey magic. Comfrey has an uncanny ability to support healthy skin. Massaging our Heal-All Salve into tired hands and feet offers deep comfort, with this giving and wonderful plant as an ingredient.
Plantain (Plantago major) - The leaves of Plantain are wide and soft. We gather them from our garden pathways and gently dry them. This plant favors high traffic areas, and is a good one to know when enjoying the outdoors. Plantain contains both astringent and moistening qualities that are important for healthy skin growth.
St. John's Wort (Hypericum perforatum) - Known for "letting in the light", St. John's Wort flowers add a special energy to our Heal-All Salve. Their qualities support the physical tissues of the nervous system, ease occasional irritation of fingers, toes, and perineum tissue, and offer warmth and light to the heart. Beloved through time, this plant has an ability to soothe and support vitality both topically and internally.
Alfalfa (Medicago sativa) - The deep green of alfalfa, packed full of a variety of minerals and vitamins, offer soothing, moisturizing, and vitalizing benefits to the skin.
Basil, Sweet (Ocimum basilicum) - A surprise ingredient in our Heal-All Salve for soothing and vitalizing the skin. Besides drying this herb for our salve, we also enjoy eating lots of fresh Basil in salads, pesto, and in fresh green juices alongside Dandelion, Sorrel, and Parsley.
Borage (Borago officinalis) - Beautifully blue Borage flowers attract hundreds of bees in our garden. We gather and dry the leaves for our salve, as they soothe the skin.
Red Clover (Trifolium pratense) - Red Clover's soft mauve-colored flowers have a gentle effect on the skin. We encourage Red Clover to grow along the edges of our garden, as their flowers are beloved by bees.
Suggested Use: Apply to dry areas of skin including hands, lips, face, and feet. Store in a cool place out of direct sunlight.
Deb's Dry Skin Salve Is Part Of Our Avena Collection
The Avena Collection is perhaps the purest skin and body care blends American soil has to offer.
They're based on botanicals regeneratively grown & wild-harvested on Maine's first certified Biodynamic farm.
From seed to harvest to infusion to jar, everything is done by hand.
In the Spring, our farmer-partner plants her seeds following biodynamic, regenerative and mixed polyculture principles (which go way beyond "organic").
She keeps the plants tightly spaced, applying minimal (organic) fertilizer and irrigation. This makes it harder and slower for the plants to grow. And that's the point. They become more potent, which your nose & skin will verify as soon as you open your jar, inhale the glory, and apply.
Meanwhile, the humming birds, butterflies and bees fill the garden with all sorts of color, sounds and personalities. Her farming efforts are regenerating not just the land, but all the critical pollinators as well.
Throughout the growing season, she hand-harvests only the best parts of the plants and only at peak potency. Then she immediately infuses them at low temperatures into organic oils to preserve their botanical benefits.
Finally, the infusions are blended and packed on-site, ready to deliver the most potent & pure skin care American soil can offer.
The first time you open & apply your product -- when you see & smell how whole-plant blends were meant to be -- is always a special moment.
And as you put it on, you'll feel that difference, too.
Enjoy!
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