GARDENER’S SALVE: 7 Plants for Healthy Hands
IT’S GARDENING SEASON, and your hands are chapped and sore from exposure to soil and sun. Contact with the soil is inevitable, no matter how careful you are about wearing gloves, but washing the soil from your hands (and washing all your garden produce) rinses away your skin’s natural protective oils, causing it to dry out.
Salves are thickened ointments that are very easy to make at home and can be used to soothe various skin problems. They can treat chapped hands, wounds, mild burns, bites, stings, rashes, boils, acne, and inflammation. To make a basic salve, all you need is an
