Lavender / Rose Salve Recipe

Two of my favorite scents, there’s something delicate about both of these fragrances and both make a girl feel girlie.

To see the how to infuse your oil and the amount of each the lavender and the rose that was used, click Here. This will open in a new tab, so you can go back and forth between articles.

Lavender

I think lavender is one of the most recognizable herbs and essential oils you hear and read about; it’s incredibly popular by just about everyone. It smells wonderful, lavender is calming and comforting, its antibacterial, can help get rid of a headache, lavender is soothing, it can help relieve tension and so much more.

Rose

Roses are beautiful and the scents are heavenly. I love this soothing, relaxing oil. The smell is intoxicating. Rose can promote healing, rose is calming and helps bring about balance and harmony, it is hydrating and moisturizing.

Making Your Homemade Lavender / Rose Salve

After you have infused and strained the herbs from the oil, the best part starts, making your salve. The recipe is pretty simple.

You will find a link at the top of this article that will open a new tab with the herbs used for the lavender/rose infused oil.

Directions

  1. In a bowl large enough to melt your ingredients, add the infused oil, beeswax, shea butter, and coconut oil.
  2. Fill a larger pot a little less than half way full of water and place the bowl with your ingredients inside. Kind of like a double boiler.
  3. Heat slowly over a medium-low to medium heat, stir occasionally until all ingredients are melted.
  4. While this is melting, get your containers ready to fill. I put an old towel down (to protect the surface from any spills) then put the containers on that.
  5. When the ingredients have been completely melted, turn the burner off and carefully remove the bowl from the hot water. Be so careful not to spill, this is hot! Use pot holders and set the bowl on a towel.
  6. I let the mixture cool just a teeny bit before adding the essential oils. Don’t know if you really have to do this or not but I do, I think I am getting a better sense of what my mix of essential oils will smell like.
  7. Add the essential oils and stir well then pour in the containers and wait and wait and wait for it to harden.

It doesn’t take too long for it to harden. I’d let it sit a couple of hours before trying it – for sure overnight.

How much beeswax you use will depend on how hard you want your salve. I always start with the least and when all ingredients are combined, I'll test a small amount by placing some on wax paper and let it cool and harden a bit see what it's like and add more if I want.

Homemade Recipe Tips

  • Make sure your work space and hands are clean.
  • Make sure the containers you are using are clean.
  • Make sure salves and creams have cooled enough before pouring in glass containers so they don't break.
  • Keep the batch size small so the homemade products you use are fresh unless you're making gifts.

Infusing Herbal Oils

  • Before you decide on which plant material you are going to use, I recommend you do your research on the plants or herbs you want to use.
  • The infused oils I make are for topical use, I recommend you do a little test on your skin prior to using your infusion, just to make sure you don’t have a reaction, chances are pretty low that it would bother you, but you just never know especially if you have sensitive skin.
  • All my infused oils have turned out great for the salves I’ve made or using them as they are or mixing with other oils and essential oils.