Organic Lip Balm and Salve Making

Homemade medicinal salves and lip balms are easy and fulfilling to make and the creative possibilities are nearly endless. What gives balms and salves their structure is beeswax. Beeswax is inherently medicinal and, when paired with herbs and quality carrier and essential oils, becomes alchemically healing. In this hands-on class we will create an herbal salve and a honey infused lip balm. We will discuss types of oils, methods of extracting herbs in oils, where to source products for your creations, necessary equipment and methods for creating your own balms and salves. Each participant will go home with recipes, an herbal salve and three yummy lip balms.

Carrie Redfern can almost always be found using her hands in some crafty way. Some of her practical passions are candle making and herbalism. She has made and enjoyed all manner of beeswax candles for many years. Carrie is primarily a self-taught crafter, but has also been guided by a few wonderful teachers, and was educated in Western Herbalism at the Southwest Institute of Healing Arts, and Clinical Herbalism at the California School of Herbal Studies. Her herbal explorations revolve primarily around herb cultivation and medicine making with a focus on body care products. You will find some of Carrie's creations at Her Majesty's Secret Beekeeper.