Start making nettle ointment yourself

... OR ANOTHER OALF OF FRESH HERBS ...

You can make ointment in many ways. Below I describe a simple recipe, as I make it myself. The base ointment is made of beeswax and oil in a ratio of 1: 9. For example: 90 grams of organic Sunflower oil and 10 grams of Beeswax together make up about 115 ml of ointment.

Then of course you need Nettle. Only use the fresh buds of the Stinging Nettle. Pick them (carefully) on a dry day in a clean place and don't pick more than you need. For a small jar of ointment, that's really no more than a few nice buds.

Heat the beeswax in a bain-marie and when it has melted, slowly add the oil. Stir this well. Then cut the Nettle into small pieces (about 1 cm). Make sure the herb is completely covered with oil and that the oil is saturated. Heat this now for a total of about 10 to 15 hours. Stir it regularly and let it solidify again and again. You can heat it for an hour every day or a few hours a day, it doesn't matter much. Then sieve it as hot (and therefore liquid) as possible with a (cheese) cloth. Squeeze it a little more, but not too hard because then moisture will come with it. If you sieve it in a metal jug or container, you can keep it liquid a little longer because the metal stays warm for a long time. It is easier to donate. Finally, pour it into a (brown) glass jars or tubes. Stick a label on it with the content and date of creation.

Other herbs to make ointment with are:

• Smelly Celandine | for dry eczema, dirty skin and warts

• Marigold | purifying and healing for all kinds of skin conditions

• Comfrey | for bruises, sprains, bumps and bruises

• Chamomile | soothing and healing for the skin

• Violet Tricolor | soothing and healing for the skin | wet and dry eczema

• Plantain (narrow) | for cuts, stab wounds and insect bites

• etc.

Have fun creating and if you have any questions about it please let me know! Cindy

First aid for puncture-scrape itching

Nettle ointment helps very well with itching or sting from a mosquito or the nettle itself! And also with abrasions. Especially dirty wounds. And wet eczema.

Well ... you can actually use it for a lot!

In our home there is always a lick of nettle ointment on the (washed and possibly disinfected with colloidal silver) abrasion before the plaster is applied. When the wound is clean, you can also use Calendula ointment to heal the skin.