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Metal tin of homemade calendula salve made using beeswax image.

Calendula Salve Recipe

Charlotte Anderson @ Carolina Honeybees, LLC
Make your own healing salve with that contains calendula oil and beeswax. Healthy skin begins with healthy products. It's easy to make your own homemade salves.
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  • Infusing Calendula Oil: Let's begin by making our own infused calendula oil. If you buy some ready-made, you can skip this part.
    Place enough dried calendula flowers in the bottom of a crockpot to cover the bottom in a single layer. Add enough olive oil to just cover the flowers.
    Let steep on low for 24 hour. Now use a strainer or equivalent to strain the leaves out of the oil mixture.
    Putting dried calendula flowers in crockpot with oil.
  • Making the salve:
    Melt your beeswax in a double boiler or similar set up. This is the safest way to melt beeswax. 
    Beeswax has a low melting temp but the process can be a bit slow.  Give it time to melt.
    Bar of beeswax melting in a pot image.
  • Adding oil:
    It is time to add the infused calendula oil that we made earlier.  Lower the heat setting to simmer because you do not want your infused oil to be subjected to higher temperatures than are necessary.
    You will need 1 oz (net wt) infused calendula oil for this recipe.  Slowly add the infused oil to the beeswax mixture. Because the oil is cooler than the wax, you will notice the wax beginning to harden. 
    That’s okay, just keep stirring and everything will reliquefy.
    Pouring infused calendula oil into melted beeswax image.
  • Pour into containers:
    Once all ingredients are combined and melted, remove from heat.  Pour into small containers of your choice.  You can use tins or glass jars. 
    If you are using glass, temper them first (heat with hot water from the faucet.)  This prevents glass breakage due to pouring the hot mixture into a cold glass.
    Pour melted wax and oil into a container image.
  • Add flowers and cool:
    Once the surface of the calendula salve has started to set, you can sprinkle a few dried flower petals on top for looks.
    Set your containers aside in a safe location and allow them to cool overnight or at least 6 hours.  Then your homemade herbal calendula salve will be set and ready to use.
    Jar of fresh calendula salve with flower petals on top image.
  • Label:
    Don’t forget to label the container.  Otherwise, you may be like me and find yourself thinking… now what was this?
    Bright label for tin of homemade calendula salve image.

Notes

Notes:
Use caution when melting beeswax - using a double boiler (even a small one dedicated to crafting) is best.
Keep your temperatures as low as possible don't overheat the wax or oil.
This recipe makes one small tin but you can increase the recipe easily.
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