Black Salve
2 Tablespoons Bee's Wax
3 Tablespoons Cocoa Butter
3 Tablespoons Shea Butter
2 Tablespoons Olive Oil
1 Tablespoon Vitamin E
1 Tablespoon Honey Powder (optional)
2 Tablespoons Activated Charcoal Powder
3 Tablespoons Rhassoul Clay
Optional: Herbal Extracts, Essential Oils - depending on what you're using the salve for
8 1/2 ounce clear jars
Black Salve is touted to do everything these days, including curing cancer. I will be staying off the cancer topic, but this is the old fashioned salve everyone used to have in the house. What it does best is absorb toxins. The common use for it is to put a glob of it on a bee sting, slivers or a cut. It sucks out the poisons! No home should be without it.
First Step:
Put Bees wax, cocoa butter and shea butter in a small pot and heat. You want to keep it at 180 degree for at least 15 minutes. This is easier than it sounds. Just heat it on medium high until it is melted. Turn off the burner and let it sit. It should still be over 180 in 15 minutes. :)
Second Step:
Add the rest of the ingredients and stir until well blended. The easy place to buy Activated Charcoal is in your local health food store or herbal medicine store. You'll probably have to open a lot of capsules, but it is the stuff you need for this.
Third Step:
Feel free to add any relevant herbal extracts to the formula just before you spoon it in. You want to make sure it is very cooled off before adding any extracts, essential oils, or fragrance.
Fourth Step:
Once it is smooth, spoon into 1/2 ounce jars. Give a jar to everyone you know. They will thank you for it!
Hi Kelly, Yeah, I would think
Hi Kelly,
Yeah, I would think you'd want a salve a little gooey to put on cuts and things. The harder version might be convenient for camping trips and mosquito bites maybe? But, then again, you might want it gooey for that too. lol
Update on Black Salve in Tubes
Hi everyone,
I said I would update on how adding the extra beeswax worked for making the salve thicker for deodorant tubes. Well, the good news is, yes, the salve was thicker. The bad news is, salves in tubes do not work (as I'm sure most of you seasoned posters already knew):-)
The salve was too hard to put on regular skin, let alone a compromised skin condition that the salve would be used for.
Live and learn, trial and error!!
Kelly
Fuller's Earth Sub for Rhassoul
Sounds like it would work then. This is what MRH (Mountain Rose Herbs) says:
Fuller's Earth is a naturally occurring sedimentary clay composed mainly of alumina, silica, iron oxides, lime, magnesia, and water, in extremely variable proportions.
It has the incredible ability to remove oils and impurities from the skin and produces a lightening effect on the outer epidermal layer. This is why we have seen several products marketed as "facial bleach" or "skin bleaching" clay .
It comes highly recommended to those with acne problems, blemishes, spotting, and people prone to oily skin. It is also a useful base ingredient for facial clay recipes and adds a nice finishing touch to clay products promising to aid its user with their battle against oily skin.
I'm not really familiar with
I'm not really familiar with fuller's earth. Is it actually a clay? Any clay will work in the recipe because the clay pulls out toxins out of the skin. That is its purpose in the recipe.
rhassoul clay sub
could fuller's earth clay be substituted or does the rhassoul have properties that attribute to the effectiveness of this recipe.
Thanks for the tip!
Thanks for the tip!
finding activated carbon
Fish stores will all carry activated carbon. Usually it'll be in pellet or granulate form, but you can find it in powdered form as well occasionally. I have powdered it myself in a grinder for use in several different applications. Just wear a mask if doing this, as no-one needs to be breathing in carbon dust.
It is completely safe to be used topically, equally effective to the stuff you pay a small fortune for at a health food store, readily available, and chemically identical to the others (since it's just activated carbon with no extra ingredients, etc).
If you add a little extra
Thank you very much! I'm going to make a smaller, test batch with extra beeswax and see how it goes. I'll post the results for anyone who may be interested.
Thanks,
Kelly
If you add a little extra
If you add a little extra bee's wax it would work in a tube. It is probably a little too soft as it is written.
How about in twist-up tubes?
Would this black salve recipe work in twist-up "deodorant" tubes like a lotion bar? Does anyone have any ideas how to best tweak the recipe so that it would work effectively?
Thank you all in advance,
Kelly
honey powder
You can buy honey powder at a Korean grocery store or online. Try http://www.stakich.com/hfolder/honeypowder24oz.htm I've purchased their beeswax and it's wonderful, so I'm sure their honey powder is great -- and is 100% honey.
If you want a smaller quantity, try http://www.thesoapdish.com/honeypowder.htm or http://www.southernsoapers.com/cart/index.php?main_page=product_info&pro...
You can find the activated charcoal powder at a GNC store. If you don't have one near you, try online: http://www.healingherbs.biz/products/charcoal.html or http://www.pickle-publishing.com/charcoal/activated-charcoal-powder.htm or http://www.betterthangreens.com/Product.asp?intProdID=289&source=googleps
Activated charcoal should be
Activated charcoal should be sold in a store that sells vitamins. Honey powder might be more difficult, you can substitute real honey if you want.
black salve
Hi everybody, im out here in the uk. I am wanting to make the black salve, I am unable to find any honey powder or activated charcoal.Help please.
I'm interested in making
I'm interested in making this, but can't seem to find the activated charcoal powder. My Mom used to tell me about black salve and how it worked for everything from a pimple to a boil. So, I'm really eager to make it.
Thanks,
Ellen
This is the best stuff ever.
This is the best stuff ever. I keep little jars of it all over. 1 in my purse, 1 in the car, 1 at dh office, and several around the house.
Debbie - Kansas