Rich hand balm with a Christmas scent

Dry, chapped, and rough hands are common in winter. We’ve created a winter hand balm that provides your skin with hydration and nourishing ingredients and also has a wonderful Christmas scent. It is done in a very short time and is completely natural.

Ingredients for hand balm

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The oil should be 100% essential fragrance oil. However, it is important to pay attention to organic certification. You can also make the recipe with fresh orange peel, as long as it is an organic orange. Then you should prepare an oily macerate (oily extract). The oil should be liquid. For example, almond oil. The simplest way is to pour 40 ml of almond oil onto the peel of two or three oranges, leave them to infuse in a warm place for two or three weeks and then strain the peels. With 40 ml of almond oil you can then replace 30 g of coconut oil and the teaspoon of almond oil in the hand balm recipe. Cocoa butter is added in the same quantity.

Lots of recipes in our wild herbs magazine

Nature gives us many fantastic medicinal plants. We would like to raise awareness of medicinal plants and inspire with simple and natural recipes. We will show you this in the current winter issue of Kräuterkeller magazine (available here) our favorite recipes. The magazine is available in both digital and printed versions in our small herbal medicine shop www.die-moderne-Kräuterhexe.de available.

Preparing hand balm

The ingredients are carefully dissolved one by one in a bain-marie, stirring continuously. We start with the cocoa butter, then the coconut oil, add the almond oil and finally add the fragrance oil. There is already a wonderful scent of orange in the kitchen. As you can see the preparation is quite quick. Filled into glass jars, the balm is then left to cool and only then is the lid screwed on. The cocoa butter ensures that the hand balm solidifies at room temperature, but this takes a few hours. If that’s too long for you, it’s pretty quick out now in the winter. We photographed the warm, cool balm directly outside for this article, and it solidified within an hour. However, close the lid only at the end. Any condensation could cause mold formation. That’s why you always close the lid only after it has cooled down.

Gift ideas for Christmas

In our herbalist’s shop we have put together several sets to give as gifts (or give away). With the Herbal witch set (available here) you will receive our seasonal calendar and our book “With wild herbs and medicinal plants all year round” including our set of “Herb witch” postcards at a discounted price. With the Discovery set for the whole family (available here) you will receive the book, the seasonal calendar and our discovery book for children «Ben and Mara discover the world of wild herbs“(available here). In this children’s book, Ben and Mara experience nature’s changes through the seasons. You’ll learn about local wild herbs and discover how to use them for amazing recipes, like this one Wild herb wafflescan use. After the hand-drawn story, there is a child-friendly wild herb encyclopedia where all the wild herbs that appear in the book are shown and explained. In the third chapter we have collected tips and recipes that are easy to follow for children. You can purchase the book and sets in our online witch’s herb shop www.die-moderne-Kräuterhexe.de

How can this balm take care of your hands?

Rich cocoa butter and moisturizing coconut oil can provide long-lasting care for your hands and protect them from dryness. The almond oil it contains is rich in linoleic acid, which can strengthen the skin’s resistance. Almond oil further hydrates the skin and can also counteract skin irritation. There are no chemical additives in this conditioner. It’s completely natural and really quick to prepare. If you use orange essential oil (Citrus Aurantium Dulcis), this delicate scent is said to have calming and mood-enhancing properties in aromatherapy. It can also provide inner peace. Orange essential oil also has skin healing properties.

Conservation and shelf life

Filled into small, dark jars and stored in a cool place, the hand balm can be used throughout autumn and winter. The hand balm is also a great gift for Christmas.

Preserving wild herbs

In our new book you will find many methods and curiosities about the conservation of wild herbs and medicinal plants «Preserving wild herbs: the best methods and recipes“(available here) can be found in our herbalist’s shop at www.die-moderne-Kräuterhexe.de is available. In the book you will also find many other recipes on this topic.

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