How to make Calendula Salve - Our Permaculture Life

To get this section started, here’s my film about how to make calendula salve. This video is from the Our Permaculture Life Youtube channel.

In week 2 of each month, new recipes (culinary and other) will be added in this section of the Our Permaculture Life membership community.

Use Calendula Salve to:

soothe insect bites
heal cuts and bruises
smooth rough elbows and knees
soften chapped lips
soothe rashes, including nappy rash
heal minor burns, including sunburn
ease eczema and psoriasis

This recipe is safe for the whole family. Every ingredient recommended is natural and edible. What you put on your skin, should be good enough to eat!

This is part 3 of my series about Calendula. The first 2 parts are:

Part 1: Calendula: How to Grow and Use

Part 2: Make Calendula Oil: for skin, healing and eating

Do you make salves at home? What plants and recipes have you successfully used?

Morag Gamble

My name is Morag Gamble and I am living and working a permaculture life. I live an ‘Off-the-Grid’ lifestyle in a permaculture village near Maleny in the subtropical part of southeast Queensland, Australia with my husband and 3 young children.

We designed and built our modular eco-home – with much appreciated help from my family. We are mortgage-free and live simply. Our income is derived from permaculture-related activities. We grow a lot of vegetables, herbs and fruit in the polycultural garden-playground surrounding our home. We collect our water, deal with our wastewater on-site and produce most of our own power.

I love this way of living and I love bringing my children up in this environment. They are Nature Kids and they are learning vital skills for resilience, compassion and future problem solving through our ecological unschooling approach.

I am also passionate about how this way of life can make a positive contribution to society and support ecological regeneration.