Great for hands during the winter time.  Can be used during the gardening season when the dirt dries out your hands. Helps to moisturize skin and also heals bad cracks and splits.

Made with organic sunflower oil, local beeswax, organic shea butter, organic cocoa butter, vitamin E oil, organic calendula, organic chickweed, essential oils of organic geranium and helichrysum oil. 

Calendula is considered a vulnerary, anti-inflammatory, and astringent herb which makes it great to use for wound healing. It helps to speed up the healing process, helps with stagnation of fluid and inflammation, helps prevent infection and bacterial growth. Matthew Wood talks about how it heals from the inside out. Calendula has long been used to mend cuts, burns, bites, sprains, rashes, and sunburn. It is good for cooling and soothing the skin. It has Antibacterial, antiviral, and antifungal properties. Sajah Popham talks about using calendula for lacerations and puncture wounds. It not only helps heal and prevent infections, but it starts the healing process from beneath and helps to supply the tissue with the lymphatic fluid that it needs. Other herbs that blend well with calendula for wound healing are St. johns’ wort and yarrow.

I personally love chickweed for use on the skin. When you break it open it is very juicy and lubricates dry skin well - you can apply it directly to the skin. It has demulcent and emollient properties. It is great for skin disorders and irritation or inflammation. I like it for things like eczema, psoriasis and itchy dry skin. I like to blend it with other herbs like calendula for skin disorders because of the great benefits to the skin – and this is why I like to make an oil out of it using the fresh herb. I can mix it with other herbs and use that as the oil base for a salve. You can apply it directly to the skin for use on burns, sunburns, rashes, bites, and cuts.

Please Note that all salves and creams will melt on sunny days if left in direct sunlight, in a car, near a heat source, and sometimes during shipping. If this happens you can mix them up and place them in refrigerator for a little while so they will harden back up.