Daisy Salve

Hello everyone,

“back then“—before Corona—I bought a small
jar of daisy salve at a medieval market (horrendously expensive, of course *laugh*).
This salve has been very useful here ever since, was always guarded like a treasure (because it’s such a tiny amount 😉), and is now finally running low…
So yesterday, Child 4 and I picked a little bag of daisy heads and started a daisy oil infusion with the coconut oil we still had here (I’ll make the next one with olive oil).
Now the jar will sit until tomorrow or the day after (depending on when my lanolin and beeswax are delivered), and then I’ll continue…
I’m excited 😊

What do you use the daisy ointment for?

Best regards, Ina

Hi Ina,

basically for everything.
Right now, Lotti has sore skin in her groin area and on her inner thighs. That’s where I apply it—then it takes just under two days for the sore spots to heal. Or when Quentin has a diaper rash, I use it for that, too.
Then for minor burns (I’m just saying: hot glue 😂), cuts, scrapes, nasty inflamed pimples…and sometimes even as a placebo 😉…
We keep it in the fridge.

It’s also great for treating chapped lips or inflammation under a runny nose.

(I’m more of a “conventional medicine” person 😉 and don’t really get into homeopathic remedies and such, but daisy ointment is awesome 😁)

Great tip! This natural ointment really belongs in every household and fridge. I have daisies growing in my meadow, too :-) I’ll have to Google the recipe in more detail. It’s still pretty cold in my garden, so the daisies can enjoy their lives for a little while longer. But at least I’ve got the idea now.

Hugs, Ina

I’d make it with olive oil.
Lanolin feels very uncomfortable to me.

Collecting chamomile flowers ---> noted.

By the way, you can also make jelly from chamomile flowers (or rather, the infusion made from them).

I’m only adding a very small amount of lanolin to the ointment to make everything nice and smooth. Otherwise, the wax would make it too hard.
Chamomile ointment works too.

I’m also a fan of nature’s healing powers. Unfortunately, it’s hard to convince young people of that these days. They tend to trust a package insert listing side effects more. Maybe that understanding only comes with life experience.

I make calendula ointment every year. But that’s mostly for me; see above.

The daisy ointment sounds interesting, but I LOVE daisies and can’t bring myself to pick them.
My grandpa used to make calendula ointment all the time—I still have a book of his with recipes.
I generally rely on nature’s healing power, too, but the daisy thing just isn’t for me :-)

We have a meadow by the house,  no daisies are blooming yet.  And when it comes to chamomile, I only ever find scentless mayweed 

Best, Gabi 

That’s really interesting, the daisy ointment. I’ll keep that in mind. I’m also a fan of natural remedies and have had great results with them so far. I once beat my hay fever with homeopathic pellets—and it’s been gone for 34 years now, after I’d tried everything else.

We always put daisies in our salads (daisy guardians, please don’t scold me). :)
Now I’m sure they’ll serve as an ointment too.

Thanks for the helpful tip.

Monika, I’ve actually never eaten flowers before. But I think it’s interesting. I’ll have to try it sometime. Just not daisies ;-). The grass around mine is always neatly mowed, and I’m careful not to step on any of them. I remember that when we were kids, we used to pick and eat sorrel.



So, now all that’s missing is the lanolin, then I can finish mixing the ointment and fill it into the little screw-top jars 😊

Great! I’m sure a few of us would love to have one of your little jars right now. But you have plenty of needs in your family. And the rest of us just have to put in a little effort if we want something this good. Thank you so much for the suggestion, dear Nina.

By the way, I once went to a restaurant where the menu consisted mostly of edible plants and flowers. They had a large greenhouse where everything grew. A daylily blossom floated in the wine, and the salad was packed with all kinds of lettuce leaves, fresh herbs, and flower petals. It was absolutely delicious. Yes, it takes some effort at first, but it’s all in your head. Although I do think it’s a shame to eat such beautiful flowers.

Well then, I hope you have few occasions where you’ll need to use your daisy ointment.

Best wishes, Ina

Imelda, we do that too—we mow around the little flowers. It always looks really nice with all those little islands of flowers. And of course, we keep the picking to a minimum. We don’t step on them either. Before picking each flower, I thank it for letting me eat it. I also used to pick and eat sorrel as a kid. :)

By the way, pansies also look decorative on a salad. But I only do that rarely and sparingly. What I love most is nasturtium. I eat it with the flower, leaves, and stem.

I was able to fill 19 little jars today 😊
Five of them have already found new homes.
One went to our young lawyer on staff, whose wife is due on April 2; one to a dear neighbor with two small children; two to an acquaintance who runs a restaurant; and the fifth I just gave to a homeless man in town who has a nasty wound on his leg (which, after checking, has already been treated by a doctor but is still far from healed). He was absolutely thrilled ❤️

It’s great that you’re not keeping all your treasures to yourself. Do you put a label on it so people will know later what’s in the jar and what it’s for?

I still want to do that. But my printer isn’t working anymore *sigh*

People used to write their labels by hand—there’s something special about that: handmade ointment with a handwritten label.