Homemade Healing Salve: Boo Boo Balm

This homemade healing salve is great to put on cuts, scrapes, and rashes to help reduce inflammation and fight germs. With just a few natural ingredients like coconut oil, beeswax, olive oil, vitamin E, and essential oils, you can make this natural boo boo balm in just a few minutes.

My two-year-old is obsessed with this healing salve and band-aids. I hear it constantly… “Momma, I need boo boo cream and ‘and-aids for my owie!”

At least three times a day. Every. single. day.

Now, every time she watches an episode of one of her favorite shows and the character gets hurt, amazingly, that same body part starts to hurt on her, as well.

It truly is amazing how Daniel Tiger and my two-year-old hurt their ankles at the exact same time. A remarkable coincidence.

On occasion, when she really does get hurt, this stuff is great.

Perfect For Kids

My daughter kept complaining her belly was hurting and itching the other day. A few days earlier, we had placed a band-aid on it for funsies, and I thought she just wanted to put a new band-aid on it.

Well, come to find out, she must have had an allergic reaction to that band-aid and had a rash in the exact outline of the band-aid. Poor girl.

So, I put some of this boo boo balm on it at night, and the next morning, it was looking way better.

Or, a few weeks back, we were at the beach and August was wearing a pair of sandals that are a size too big.

That girl played and played and played some more out on the sandy shoreline. Never complained one bit.

When we finally got back to the car, we took her shoes off and her poor ankles were “ate up” (that’s a country term meaning either scraped up or lots of bug bites).

They were covered with cuts and were bleeding. After washing and cleaning her up, I spread this boo boo balm on the cuts and covered them with band-aids.

In no time, they were feeling better and healing, and August was one happy girl to be covered in band-aids.

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Why You Will Love This Healing Salve Recipe

It includes just a few natural ingredients like coconut oil (anti-bacterial and anti-fungal), beeswax, olive oil, vitamin E (to promote skin healing), and essential oils (soothing and anti-bacterial properties), meaning you can make this natural boo boo cream in just a few minutes.

It is all natural. No funky ingredients. Just things you can feel good about putting on your body.

It’s kid safe. Make sure you are using kid-safe essential oils as well.

This healing salve is nourishing and soothing to the skin with anti-inflammatory properties.

Tips For Making This Recipe

• You can easily make a double boiler by placing a glass bowl (that is slightly larger than your pot) over a pot with a few inches of water.
• If you are planning on using this on your kids, make sure to use kid safe oils.
• If you are totally new to essential oils, make sure to check out Beginners Guide To Essential Oils here.

Ingredients you will need:

• 1/4 cup coconut oil (like this one)
• 1 tbs beeswax (like this one)
• 2 tbs olive oil
• 1/4 tsp vitamin E oil (like this one)
• 30 drops essential oils – I used 20 drops kids-safe Germ Destroyer or tea tree (for anti-bacterial properties), and 10 drops lavender (for soothing properties).
  • You could use a thieves blend (Germ Fighter) if you are not planning on using it with children.

How To Make Homemade Healing Salve:

1. In a double boiler, add coconut oil, beeswax and olive oil.
2. Heat over medium low heat until completely melted.
3. Once melted, take it off the heat and mix in vitamin E and essential oils.
4. Pour into container and allow to cool completely. This takes anywhere from 30 minutes to an hour.
   • Stick it in the fridge to speed up the cooling time.

To Use:

Clean cuts or scrapes well.

Using clean hands, apply a small amount of healing salve to the cut and cover with a band-aid.

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• DIY Lotion Bars
• Homemade Deodorant For Sensitive Skin
• DIY Postpartum Spray
• Homemade Foot Soak
• How To Make Bath Salts

Do your kids get hurt a lot? My little girl is pretty cautious. Let’s see how baby boy turns out. Update: Baby boy, who’s 2.5 now, is not cautious at all. He prefers throwing himself off of things.