Bug Bite Salve

Bug Bite Salve

By Katie, Contributing Writer

Summer days are here at last! School is out and kids are enjoying every last bit of daylight spending as much time outside as possible. Gardens are in and starting to bear fruit. Warm summer nights are spent catching lighting bugs and visiting with friends in the late evening over glasses of iced mint tea.

Sounds perfect, right? Unfortunately, lighting bugs aren’t the only little critters out. Bugs are everywhere you go in these hot summer months. If it’s not mosquitoes then, it’s chiggers; if it’s not chiggers, then it’s….well, you get the picture.

When you are going to be outside then you might want to think about using Nina’s Homemade Insect Repellent. If you forget or, for some reason it doesn’t work, then keeping this bug bite salve on hand is a must. It is a simple blend of herbs, oil and bees wax that heals your bug bites in no time.

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• Plantain– This plant draws out poisons and soothes the skin.
• Echinacea– This king of herbs relieves itching from bug bite and promotes healing.
• Lavender– This fragrant flower repels insects and reduces swelling.
• Coconut oil– Has antifungal, antiviral and antibacterial properties.

Bug Bite Salve

Ingredients:

• 1/4 cup Dried Plantain Leaf
• 8oz (1/2 cup) bee’s wax

1. Add all your ingredients to a crock pot and turn it on to the lowest setting. Leave for two to three days. (Note: Because my crock pot tends to get rather hot, I periodically check on it and turn it off at night.)

2. After three days you will have an herb-infused oil. Strain out all the herbs. You can do this by using a stainless steel stainer or a cheese cloth. I use both. The cheese cloth allows you to squeeze out as much of the herb oil as possible.

3. Pour your herb infused oil back into the crock pot and turn it medium heat.

4. Slowly stir in about 4 TBS of beeswax pastilles. Once the beeswax pastilles are completely melted, pour into a container of your choice.

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Have you ever tried a bug bite salve? Did it help?

Original article and pictures take modernalternativehealth.com site