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I created a natural DIY healing balm and with bee propolis extract, beeswax and tamanu oil that is a powerful skin healing agent! My Propolis salve recipe can help heal cuts, small wounds, eczema, scrapes, psoriasis, bug bites, and burns. It’s an all in one miracle homemade healing balm!
What is a Propolis Salve?
Just to hint you how amazing this homemade healing balm and salve is, it contains bee Propolis, a golden elixir produced by bees. You must be even more excited by now if you are a fan of bee products as much as I am!
Propolis Salve Recipe Ingredients
It is a resinous mixture that is produced by honey bees after they combine their beeswax and own saliva with exuded substances that are collected from sap flows, tree buds and other botanical sources.
Skin Benefits: Bee propolis helps clear acne and nourishes the skin. Traces of its ancient use also highlight its role in improving complexion and skin texture by improving cell growth and nourishment, and also decongesting pores.
Healing Properties: It is antimicrobial, offering anti-septic and restorative skin benefits that help heal cold sores.
Beeswax is a natural wax produced by honey bees of the genus Apis.
Skin Benefits: It helps moisturize the skin, clear acne, reduce pigmentation and stretch marks, heal dry and cracked lips, and is beneficial for other skin conditions.
Healing Properties: Beeswax has anti-inflammatory properties help soothe irritated skin, healing severe conditions like eczema and rosacea.
I discovered tamanu oil while on a trip to French Polynesia years ago, while browsing for exotic products in a local market. Since then, tamanu oil has always been part of my medicine cabinet. Of course, you can easily buy it online here.
Scientifically known as Calophyllum Tacamahaca Seed Oil or Calophyllum Inophyllum Seed Oil, it originates from the Tamanu Tree, indigenous to Hawaii, Vanuatu and tropical countries like Thailand and Vietnam.
Skin Benefits: With only a slight chance of Tamanu oil clogging your pores, it works amazingly for acne prone skin. In addition to its anti-aging properties, it is used in a majority of skin products that cater to oily skin.
Healing Properties: It helps treat a wide range of skin ailments such as acne scars, eczema, toenail fungus, age spots, skin rashes, general scarring, psoriasis, dermatitis, etc.
Known by the scientific name of Lavandula angustifolia, it is produced from the perennial evergreen plant that can be found in Europe, Middle East, India, Africa, Canary Islands and the Mediterranean region.
Skin Benefits: Widely used in aromatherapy, it helps in improving the texture of your skin, making it glow from within.
Healing Properties: Lavender essential oil antiseptic, anti-inflammatory, soothing and a decongestant. It helps reduce acne marks, blotchy patches, and redness. It also cleans wounds, skin injuries and treats burns.
Extracted from the leaves of a small tree (Melaleuca alternifolia), it is commonly found in New South Wales and Queensland regions of Australia.
Skin Benefits: Tea tree essential oil particularly used for treating acne, while its beautifying properties help in making the skin clear, smooth, and radiant.
Healing Properties: The antimicrobial and anti-inflammatory properties help reduce swelling, inflammation and redness. It also helps clean nail fungus, and heal minor scrapes and cuts.
Ingredients
- 20 drops propolis extract
- 1.5 tsp beeswax pellets
- 8 tsp tamanu oil
- 10 drops lavender essential oil
- 10 drops tea tree essential oil
Instructions
- Melt beeswax and tamanu oil in a double boiler on medium heat.
- Once melted, take it off the heat and add the propolis and essential oils.
- Pour immediately in a container. Let cool down until it solidifies.
- Applies with a clean cue tip to small cuts, skin irritation or first or second-degree burns.
- This makes about 50 ml. The shelf life lasts up to a year in a colored glass jar. Avoid using plastic jars.
Why You Should Avoid the Use of Neosporin or Polysporin?
Neosporin is one of the most popular OTC medications, used for topical antibacterial events. Although it greatly helps with healing scabs and wounds, it is not ideal to use them after every accident since repeated use promotes the development of contact dermatitis. It is just like a poison ivy reaction and your bodily bacteria may also develop antibiotic resistance.
On the other hand, the use of polysporin might be too harsh for your sensitive skin. There may be no serious allergic reactions, but you may develop unusual skin symptoms like swelling and scaling.
There may be more than one Propolis balm recipe or Propolis Salve Recipe out there, but the ingredients to every one of them will differ. While the world moves towards advancements and commercial products, don’t underestimate the healing power of natural ingredients!
I hope you have enjoyed my recipe, please share the love and rate ***** in the comments below!
I’m Eve, a DIY organic skincare recipe creator since 2010 that loves to make a big mess in the kitchen!
I’ve embarked on a journey to empower women to ditch all the chemical-filled commercial beauty products and to share how to make your own organic beauty recipes at home towards a healthier lifestyle.
Homemade face & body creams, body butter, lips balms, face masks, shampoos, and all-natural perfume will have no more secret for you!
I am self-taught, read many books, and spend many hours in the kitchen creating brand new homemade beauty recipes. All my recipes are unique and are tested on humans!
In 2016, I studied Aromatherapy and became certified by the School of Natural Health Sciences.
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Is the bee propolis alcohol free version or with the alcohol?Thank you!
Just an FYI, bees carry nectar and pollen back to their hive for food. They collect tree resin to make propolis to seal up the hive. Their little bodies make beeswax, they don’t collect it.
Hello Eve,
This is a fabulous salve and works really well. I have one question though, the picture of your salve shows it to have a greenish colour, yet when I made it, the salve is totally black! I know this is due to the Tamamu oil, but does your personal recipe have some other ingredient (maybe Avocado?) which lightens the colour somewhat…the black colour tends to put some people off it! Please advise. Thank you very much
Hi Eve,
I love your web sight so much! I tried the body bars and they are fantastic! Thank you. I only make for myself and a few deserving friends and family!!
Do you have a recipie for a face gel for old dry skin? I have a friend who has a problem centre panel with a bit of psoriasis – any advice would be welcome (over 50 and a slightly greasy rest of face).
Many thanks
Regards
Dee
Author
Hi Dee, thank you for the kind words 🙂
Aloe vera gel is healing for the skin and to clean your face, 100% natural option!