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Muddy Itch Away

Ingredients

  • 10 tbs shea butter
  • 10 tbs coconut oil
  • 5 tbs dried calendula
  • 5 tbs chamomile
  • 5 tbs honey
  • 7.5 tbs baking soda
  • 12.5 tbs bentonite clay
  • 5 tsp witch hazel
  • 5 tbs apple cider vinegar
  • 50 drops peppermint essential oil
  • 25 drops tea tree oil

Instructions

  • Melt the coconut oil and shea butter over low heat. Use a double boiler or a quart mason jar sitting in a few inches of water in a pot.
  • Add the dried calendula and chamomile to the oils. Place a lid on the mixture and keep the pot over low heat for 20 minutes to an hour, depending on how desperate you are for itch relief.  
  • Put cheesecloth in a sieve and filter the herbs from the oil into a bowl that you can set the sieve on to drain. You can discard the herbs and the cheese cloth.
  • Wipe down the double boiler or the quart jar, so that bits of herb are removed and pour the filtered oil back in.
  • Return the heat to low and add the honey and stir.
  • Remove the mixture from the heat and add the baking soda, bentonite clay, witch hazel and apple cider vinegar. Continue to stir.
  • Now add the peppermint and tea tree oil and stir. 
  • Allow it to cool, then transfer the cream into a jar with a tight-fitting lid or just let the mason jar cool if that is the method that you used.
  • As  soon as the mixture is cool enough to touch, use it!