9d (edited) • Build your Apothecary A-Z
Build your family apothecary with me A - Z
What begins with B? Borage! This plant is an interesting one because it is lovely for helping with skin issues. But if you were to try to harvest this plant fresh without protection its hairy little leaves will make you SO ITCHY! Here’s why I love having this plant in my garden as well as my apothecary.
👍 Pros : It grows like crazy in home gardens.
Low maintenance plant.
Loved by pollinators.
Wide range of medicinal uses.
👎Cons : Can’t think of any.
How I use it safely for my family;
This is a lovely herb for adding to salves or poultices for skin issues like bug bites, rashes, and sunburns. As a bath and body product formulator, I also use it in a beef tallow lotion recipe; it’s one of my favorites. While the plant itself holds a higher medicinal value, the flowers are edible and I find them a perfect dainty little addition to a sleepy time tea mix. As I mentioned before, I think of herbal care in terms of numbers. This is level 1. Super gentle, easy to prepare, abundant herbs with a wide range of uses. This is what makes Borage one of my favorite additions to my home apothecary.
I’ll be sharing the sleepy time tea recipe. And a three part video lesson for making borage infused oil and turning that into salve and a beef tallow lotion 😊
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