WHY WE NEED TO SELF-OIL OUR BODY?
Self-oiling is very important at the end of summer as you have accumulated the season’s heat — especially if you are around a lot of fire. Where we live, there is fire, there is smoke and smog with PM2.5 during the months of March-April.
But even if you’re not around fires, but you live in a warm climate, by late summer you have an accumulation of heat.
It’s all adding up and things are getting hotter.
Fortunately, here in Chiangmai, we also have the cooling autumn weather coming in.
Have you noticed the change in the light during the cooler season?
Did you watch the leaves fall?
There will be some breezes — they are not summer breezes, they’re autumn breezes.
Let’s say you go to bed at night and it’s warm.
You don’t put any covers on. Then, you wake up in the morning and your feet are cold.
You have this fluctuating temperature of “hot, cold, hot, cold” between the accumulated heat and the autumn breezes coming in.
That is a lot of change.
That heat and dryness starts to irritate.
If you already tend to be irritated, anxious, or tense, it can increase in this late summer-autumn season because of the increased heat, wind, and dryness. It all meets inside the body.
During this transitional season, it’s important to stay moisturized.
It’s easy for the skin to dry out because of weather changes, the wind, and the heat.
YOUR NERVES LIVE RIGHT UNDER YOUR SKIN.
So if your skin is dry, your nerves are drying.
The nerve synapses communicate better in a moist environment, so oiling your skin is verrrrry important.
During the past 50 years, I have been in love with Calendula Tinctures and Oils (macerates).
Calendula oil has many benefits that make it ideal for this time of year. Here are some great calendula oil uses…
Calendula Oil: Uses and Benefits, Herbal Remedies
Calendula (C.officinalis) oil has countless benefits and is so anti-inflammatory and nourishing that it can be a cornerstone of your skin care.
Calendula moisturizes and reduces inflammation.
It’s also vulnerary and helps to regenerate the skin faster.
Calendula is a great herbal oil to use for self-oiling practices, which are especially important for self-care.
If you grow Calendula flowers in the garden, you can pick them every day and make your own oils. I can send you the details how to make this easily and potently.
Calendula Oil Benefits for Skin
Calendula oil increases the rate in which skin cells regenerates and rejuvenates.
Calendula oil benefits include reducing itchiness and irritated, red, inflamed skin as well as healing cuts, scrapes, and scratches.
I will first use the Calendula Tincture to disinfect and then I apply the Calendula oil or lotion.
Calendula uses for the skin include:
1. Wounds: Calendula can be used for slow-healing wounds.
If you have a cut or a scrape that’s starting to scar or heal over, calendula will increase the rate at which it will regenerate and heal.
It also helps to reduce redness of old sores.
And if seen it heal Herpes lesions incredibly fast….
2. Bites: put a little calendula on a spider or other insect bite to help heal the bites quickly.
3. Circulation: Calendula oil increases circulation and gets your blood and lymph moving. If you have any congested lymph or stagnation, calendula oil is really good for moving it.
4. Boils : It’s also good for boils; use calendula compresses and rub the oil in the area. That will help to increase the circulation.
5. Feet: I love to soak my feet in calendula oil especially when they are scrapy and scratchy from walking barefoot in the garden. Soaking your feet in calendula oil can reduce inflammation and heal up cracks and scrapes.
6. Dry Skin: Calendula is also incredible for dry patches like your elbows or any skin inflammations. Breastfeeding moms can use calendula oil on chapped and sore nipples.
7. Pain Relief : Calendula is one of the herbs to use in trauma oil.
Combine calendula with St. John’s wort. Plaai or Moxa oils.
This blend helps to relax muscles, tension, and stress.
It’s great for whiplash, neck pain, and a sore neck.
This combination of calendula takes care of so much muscle pain, strain, tension, and muscle trauma. It’s an amazing oil.
8. Antifungal Benefits : Another benefit of calendula is that it’s antifungal. Wonderful for athlete’s foot.
Soaking your feet in calendula and cedar oil (made with dried cedar leaf), together these are amazing for fungus and athlete’s foot.
How to Use Calendula Oil
Again, calendula is incredible for any kind of acute or chronic skin inflammation.
Calendula oil is a powerful tool for cuts, scrapes, scratches, and skin that’s dry, cracked, chapped, or sore.
Calendula also helps to increase circulation in congested, stagnant lymph or any part of your body where there is stagnation.
It’s one of the main oils we use in trauma oil for muscle pain.
There are really no contraindications that I know of.
Calendula is one of those herbs used on babies and elders.
Anybody can use it.
However, always do a patch test as some people have sensitive skin. Take a little bit of oil, put it on inside the elbow, wait 30 minutes, just to make sure you don’t have any allergic reaction.
Calendula oil belongs in every home apothecary. It’s super easy to grow and in many places.
You can grow calendula all year round.
This is a very abundant, sustainable plant.
You can also use calendula oil to make a salve or add some in your body lotions.
The oil lasts 1-2 years if made and stored correctly.
We use organic virgin Coconut and Ricebran oils which are easily available here… These oils contain natural vitamin E, which help to preserve your formulas.
If you want to learn more about how to make body oils, and you live in the USA, Kami McBride has a course where she can guide you: https://healingherbaloils.com/sign-up
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