Honey & Almond Hand Salve

This nourishing hand salve can be easily made from your kitchen with pantry ingredients and simple tools. It will deeply sooth and heal sore or course hands and offer some much needed protection during these colder months. It’s a perfect caring antidote to a day of gardening in the frost or cleaning your home in preparation for the new year.

Apply a generous amount to your hands and rub in well or for some extra nourishment, put on some cotton gloves for a little while or even overnight.

The calendula tincture acts as a preservative to a certain extent but it is still advised to keep in the fridge and use within six weeks.

Ingredients:

2 handfuls of colloidal oats (you can put normal oats through blender to create)

50g of ground almonds (as fine as you can find)

1 egg yolk

1 tablespoon of clear honey

2 tablespoons of olive oil

20 drops of calendula tincture

Method:

Add all of the ingredients to your pestle and mortar and grind until smooth. Add to sterilised jar and keep in the fridge for around 6 weeks.