Make daisy ointment yourself: You only need 3 ingredients!

You want to make a daisy ointment yourself and wonder how you can best start this project? We'll tell you how to quickly make a cream from the white flowers and why it's so good for bruises.

Everyone knows daisies. Very early in the year they cover meadows with their small white flowers. In years with little snow, you can harvest them even in winter.

Although everyone knows the little flower, hardly anyone knows how much is hidden behind the white petals. The flowers are packed with valuable ingredients that are very good for our health.

The healing ointment is known to treat bruises and small wounds. And do not even need a lot of ingredients. In addition to the daisies that grow for free in the meadow, come only oil and Beeswax* for use.

Today I want to show you how quickly you can make a daisy ointment yourself and what is important!

Why make a daisy ointment yourself?

Short times carelessly and it is already happened: A bruise or a contusion and of course on the legs or arms, where everyone can see it. Wonderful.

If you have very fair skin like me, then you see the bruises even more intensely. My grandma always had a home remedy for this: her homemade daisy ointment.

It is said to work wonders for

• Bruises and bruises
• Sprains
• Strains
• Insect bites
• small wounds
• rough skin

Daisies are a wonderful painkiller and wound healer. As an ointment or cream, their active ingredients help with bruises, abrasions and sprains of all kinds. So all blunt injuries after minor accidents without open wounds.

You can treat bruises and hematomas well with a daisy ointment. Provided that it is used immediately after the accident.

First, cool the affected area and then apply the cream. Apply it again and again to prevent the bruise from forming in the first place.

Mixed as an ointment, the daisies have no side effects. The ointment with daisies is a purely natural product. Especially for children, the white flowers are regularly used. They are particularly gentle to the skin.

And now the best part of the story: making daisy ointment yourself is not complicated at all. You only need a few ingredients. And you'll always be ready for the next bruise or insect bite.

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What ingredients do I need for a DIY cream from daisies?

Let's take a look at the ingredients before we get right into the instructions. I'll explain which vegetable oils work well in the DIY salve and why you need wax.

Daisies

The main ingredient is already in the name: Daisies. This hardy wild plant is a composite that reliably begins to bloom every year.

The main ingredients include:

• Saponins
• Tannins
• Bitters
• Flavonoids
• Mucilage

By the way, they do not only look good in the cream. You can Eat wildflowers like daisies! Try it with a wild herb soup or a delicious wild herb salad!

When collecting flowers, make sure you don't pick them up right next to the road. It is also worth collecting away from typical walking routes (dog urine). Pick the flowers, not right after or during a downpour. The flowers have the most ingredients in the morning, when they are just opening their blossoms.

Cut them with scissors and collect only enough to leave enough for insects.

Vegetable oil

Choose a high-quality, vegetable oil if you want to do something good for your skin. This oil is also called carrier oil, it transports the active ingredients of daisies to the skin.

At the same time it moisturizes and softens the skin.

With vegetable oil you can choose from this base oil:

• Olive oil
• Almond oil*
• Jojoba oil*
• Argan oil*
• Grape seed oil*

You can also Coconut oil* can be used. However, you must then keep it warm so that it does not become too solid during the infusion time. Otherwise, the daisies will not be able to release their ingredients properly.

Do you want Cocoa butter* or Shea butter* for the daisy ointment, soak them in a liquid oil first and only add the solid oils in the very last step - when you melt the wax.

Beeswax

Only with the help of wax the ointment becomes solid. We melt the wax, it combines with the oil and the active ingredients contained in the daisies. If you let the cream cool down, the wax becomes solid.

You can vary with the amounts to get a firmer or less firm cream.

Who is not Beeswax* If you would like to use a vegan alternative, such as berry wax, sunflower wax, candelilla wax or carnauba wax.

And when you have all the ingredients, you're ready to go. We now prepare an oil extract.

Important: Before you start, you should sterilize your work utensils. This will prevent the formation of mold. You can find instructions here: "How to sterilize jars and bottles correctly!“

In two steps: make daisy ointment yourself

The basis for the ointment is a daisy oil. To make it, collect fresh daisies and soak them in oil. During this time they release their valuable ingredients. This takes a little time, give the flowers this time and do not be hasty - good things take time.

Expressed as a formula, the manufacturing process could be described as follows

(daisy + oil) + wax = daisy ointment

So now we first prepare an oil extract, which will later be turned into ointment.

If you regularly make ointments and creams, you will find a short version of the instructions at the end of the article. Now follows a very detailed step-by-step guide for those who have no experience in this field.

Prepare daisy oil

Ingredients:

• 1 handful daisies
• 200 ml olive oil

Also: 1 jar with screw cap

Preparation

Pick the daisies very fresh. You can leave part of the stem on. Absolutely pure should be petals and, of course, the yellow center.

Wash the flowers not! Sort out already when collecting the flowers with soil and impurities. Take another look to make sure that there are no insects on the flowers. Tip: Simply place them on a white sheet of paper.

Put the flowers in a jar, there should be at least 2 to 3 cm of space to the lid.

Pour with the vegetable oil. And gently shake the jar until all the flowers are in the oil. Most of them will sink into the oil in the next few days.

Place the jar in the kitchen for four weeks. It should not get direct sun - but otherwise it is quite insensitive to the location. Ideal is 20-23 degrees and a dark corner.

Shake the jar every day so that the flowers are well covered with the oil and the ingredients can dissolve.

Make daisy ointment

In no time at all you can prepare a daisy ointment from the oil. It's really quite simple and quick.

Ingredients:

• 100 ml daisy oil
• 10 g Beeswax*

Also: pot, jar with screw cap, large jar, sieve, spoon or wooden spade.

Preparation

Pour tap water into a pot and bring it to a boil.

Grab a large jar and a strainer. Pour the oil through a strainer into the large jar. If you like, you can put the flowers in a tea bag while you're making the oil and save yourself the trouble of straining.

Place the jar in the saucepan and add the Beeswax* in addition.

Stir with a spoon or wooden spade until the wax dissolves.

Pour the liquid cream into the prepared Cream jar* and leave to cool with the lid open.

The cream smells unpleasant, what can I do?

Daisies have a very unique smell. For some people they smell slightly like sweat. You can already recognize the smell of the cream by your prepared oil - if it smells unpleasant to you, then you can help with a few drops of essential oils.

With the fragrance oils you can enhance the effect of the cream strengthen and at the same time mask the smell. Activating have orange, rosemary, lemon, thyme. A calming property has lavender.

If after finishing the cream you decide you still want to add a bit of fragrance, that's no problem. You can simply melt it in a water bath, add the essential oil and fill it again.

And you already have the perfect homemade gift for a dear friend!

This lavender scrub helps against dry skin

Do I need to dry the flowers for the daisy ointment?

You can let the flowers air dry for 2 to 3 days before you process them. However, do not place them in the blazing sun all the time. Lay them flat on a tray and make sure that there are not too many on top of each other.

In the time insects can escape and you can preserve the flowers for the winter. If you want to make daisy ointment yourself in the cold season, you can start at any time.

10 grams dried daisies = 20 g fresh daisies

Some swear by dried flowers for the preparation of creams and ointments. The main concern here is mold, which can form if the flowers contain too much water. Similar to a chili oil or herb oil. I have never had this problem and therefore take fresh flowers.

And here, as promised, the short version of the instructions for all those who regularly make natural cosmetics themselves:

Our conclusion

Make daisy ointment yourself is really no witchcraft. You only need three ingredients and you have a wonderful and effective home remedy against bruises :)

The white flowers grow from March until late autumn. So the ointment from the daisies can be mixed all year round, even at short notice.

For bruises, always cool first and then apply homemade daisy ointment.

Have fun making it and good luck!

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