6 Herbs for Summer Skin Care

It’s mid-August and summer is awesome, but our skin is toast! Sunburns, bug bites, cuts, scrapes, bruises; all signs of the season. In today’s episode, we’ll learn about 6 of our favorite foliage friends that can help us heal our summer skin! 

Calendula, my Friendula, is a magical wonder when it comes to skin issues. This beautiful plant can be used for any skin condition inflammation and is also antifungal. Great first aid for minor burns. Make yourself a Calendula flower oil infusion to keep with you all year long. 

Comfrey is a superhero of wound healing! It’s rich in allantoin,helping grow new skin cells. If you break off the stem of a comfrey plant, the moist allantoin-rich sliminess inside works wonders to cool and soothe your crispy skin.

Aloe is also rich in allantoin, magical slime-like no other! Aloe helps cool inflammation, heal wounds, and as an antifungal.There's a huge list of the things aloe can do for you, both inside and out.

Plantain is one of my absolute favorite plants. It’s an herb that l every human should know because it helps with so many different things!  I wrote in great detail about plantain over here. But we’ll just talk about summer skin issues. Plantain has this amazing ability to draw things out of the skin like splinters or thorns. It’s especially great for drawing out venom or infection, ideal for spider bites, bug bites, or even snake bites. And you can wrap it around ouchies on fingers and make super cool nature bandaids!

Yarrow can be a true lifesaver when out in the wilderness because it can help stop bleeding.. If you get a serious wound that is bleeding profusely, Yarrow can be an incredibly valuable plant friend.  Just take some of the flower, and/or it’s many feathered leaflets, mash it up, and put it in/on the wound. (Of course, if your wound is bleeding in a major way, you’re going to want to head to the hospital once you reach your car or another safe place.)

Marshmallow is a super mucilaginous plant, particularly when using the roots. You can create a cold infusion of the roots that will produce this super slimy mucilaginous stuff and it’s exactly what you want. It’s an amazing emollient and a fantastic way to soothe a sunburn, or any other burn for that matter. It’s also great to speed wound healing and reduce inflammation.

There are a lot of plants that can help your skin thrive through a summer of fun and sun, and it’s so easy to get to know them! For more information, check out Melissa’s blog here.

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*The information shared on this podcast is for educational purposes only and is not intended to be a substitute for medical treatment. Please consult your medical care provider before using herbs.