Calendula is one of my pet flowering herbs to grow , it ’s super easy and the more you pick , the more it flowers . This cheerful flower will even flower in the fall after Robert Lee Frost , make it a long - hold up garden herb .

Every summer we harvest , dry calendula petals for calendula oilto make salves and lotions . Calendula makes an first-class addition to a herbal remedies garden .

Calendula cream from the stock often comes with unwanted preservatives . I know because I was using calendula pick for our baby and diaper skin rash and read the element . That ’s why I favor to make our own organic calendula lotion .

Beautiful Calendula Flower

I adapted this calendula cream recipe from the basic lotion recipe in the Homesteaders Herbal Companion’ book. This is a slight variation to make a calendula cream lotion. You’ll want to infuse calendula oil for this recipe. but you can also buy calendula oil.

This calendula software recipe is exhort from Amy Fewell ’s new book‘The Homesteaders Herbal Companion’which I was tender to look back .

How to Make Calendula Lotion

I adapted this calendula lotion recipe from the basic lotion formula inthe Homesteaders Herbal Companionbook . This is a slight variation to make a calendula emollient lotion . You ’ll want to infusecalendula oilfor this recipe . but you could alsobuy calendula crude .

The first time I made this recipe I had a lot of calendula oil and make 3 slew . I hold open it in the fridge for many months but we really did n’t need so much !   The pick will change body in the fridge and become hard .

Handmade lotion recipe using calendula oil for calendula cream

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I adapted this calendula cream recipe from the basic lotion recipe in the Homesteaders Herbal Companion’ book. This is a slight variation to make a calendula cream lotion. You’ll want to infuse calendula oil for this recipe. but you can also buy calendula oil.

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