4 Natural Herbal Mother’s Day Gifts

I love making herbal gifts. They are unique and may be something that most people these days would not make on their own. Whether it’s for Mother’s Day gifts or a Teacher’s gift, herbal gifts feel special, distinguished, classy, and show that you made a special effort because you care.

The 4 Natural Herbal Mother’s Day Gifts I chose are comfrey salve, peppermint and calendula lip balm, lavender bath salts, and rose and orange sugar scrub. I’ll explain below what ingredients you need and how to make each special gift for mom.

These are easy gifts that anyone can make. No big learning curve here. And best of all, they can be last minute! They don’t take weeks to cure or half a day to make. As long as you have a few key ingredients, you can make special gifts that show you took time to show you care.

Herbs I Use in These Recipes:

There are herbs that moms will recognize and love, like lavender and rose, shea butter, or other luxurious oils. There are so many more herbs and scents that can be used and that add beauty as well as medicinal values to your creations.

I’ve added some great herbs like calendula and comfrey for wonderful skin healing benefits and orange peels and peppermint leaves for their scent and other benefits like increasing circulation and cleansing.

So, enjoy the following recipes for Natural Herbal Mother’s Day Gifts, teacher’s gifts, birthdays, wedding favors and showers, creative Valentine’s gifts…you name it!

How to Infuse Oil with Herbs

A quick and easy way to infuse an oil with herbs, whether flower petals or leaves, is to:

1. Measure the oil you are using in your recipe into a saucepan.
2. Add a handful of fresh herbs or a Tablespoon or two or dried herbs. I know that’s not specific, but amounts will vary depending on the type of herb. It’s a good rule just to add amounts as suggested above or follow the recipe amounts.
3. Heat the oil over very low heat (you do not want to scald the herbs) for 5 minutes. Turn off the heat and allow to cool.

The heat will help the oils within the herb to release. When the oil is cool, go ahead and strain the herbs out of the oil and discard them. Use the oil in your recipe.

4 Natural Herbal Mother’s Day Gifts

I’ve chosen 4 simple and wonderful herbal DIY’s:

• Comfrey salve
• Peppermint and calendula lip balm
• Lavender bath salts
• Rose and orange sugar scrub

Comfrey Salve

A good comfrey salve is great to have on hand and makes a great gift. Make sure to let the person you’re giving it to know that comfrey is fabulous for healing any skin conditions and wounds.

Ingredients:

• 1/2 cup coconut oil
• 1/2 cup dried comfrey
• 1 tablespoon bees wax
• 1 tablespoon shea butter
• 2 drops rosemary essential oil
• 2 drops tea tree essential oil

Instructions:

1. Add Coconut, beeswax, and shea butter in a double boiler (or use a glass measuring dish in a saucepan of water).
2. Gently heat on low until all ingredients are melted.
3. Add comfrey while it is still over very low heat and allow to heat for 10 minutes. Remove from heat and allow to cool.
4. Strain comfrey from oils.
5. Pour oil into wide mouth, 2oz containers. Makes 4

Peppermint and Calendula Lip Balm

This lip balm is great for multiple reasons. First, peppermint increases blood flow, making it great for lips. Calendula is wonderful for skin, meaning those chapped lips will heal even faster.

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Ingredients:

• 2 tablespoons beeswax
• 1 tablespoon cocoa butter
• 1 tablespoon shea butter
• 1 tablespoon coconut oil
• 1 tablespoon calendula flower infused oil (See instructions above.)
• 10 drops peppermint essential oil or oil of choice

Instructions:

1. In a double boiler (or I like to use a large glass measuring cup in a saucepan with water), add beeswax and cocoa butter, stirring until melted.
2. Add shea and coconut oil and stir until melted.
3. Remove from heat and add herb infused oil and essential oil.
4. Pour into lip balm tubes and allow to cool – to avoid the hole in your lip balm, try to almost overfill containers.

Lavender Bath Salts

Magnesium is a mineral that our bodies need to have properly working nervous systems. Your body can absorb magnesium through epsom salts used in your bath. This recipe for bath salts uses epsom salts, lavender flower petals, and lavender essential oil.

Ingredients:

• 2 cups Epsom salts
• 1/2 cup lavender petals
• 15 drops lavender essential oil

Instructions:

1. Combine all ingredients in a 16oz mason jar and seal.
2. Label and wrap with a bow and you’re ready to go.

Rose and Orange Sugar Scrub

A rose and orange sugar scrub is SO luxurious! It’s great to use a sugar scrub in the shower where you can scrub down and rinse off. Just make sure you don’t slip!

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Ingredients:

• 3/4 cup organic sugar
• 1/3 cup sweet almond oil (you can substitute olive, apricot, grape seed or other oils you have on hand)
• 2 Tablespoons crushed rose petals
• 1 Tablespoon ground dried orange peels
• 2 drops diluted rose essential oil
• 3 drops sweet orange essential oil

Instructions:

1. Combine all ingredients in an 8 oz jar.
2. Seal and label.

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