Skin Problems? Try this DIY Natural Antibacterial Cream
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Healthy Living
Posted On April 5, 2015
Need a do-it-yourself alternative to antibacterial creams that don’t have any weird chemicals in it that you can’t pronounce? You can use this natural alternative for skin rashes, athlete’s foot, and even as a diaper rash ointment. Try this easy recipe:
What you’ll need:
- 4 tablespoons beeswax
- 1/2 cup coconut oil
- Small metal bowl
- Small saucepan
- Kitchen hand towel
- 15 drops tea tree oil
- 10 drops lavender oil
- 1 tablespoon witch hazel
- Hand mixer
- Sealable glass container
How to Make Your Own ‘Neosporin’
For this, you’ll need a double broiler. If you don’t have one, you can use this tutorial for this DIY without having to purchase one. This is a key part of the process because it will help to make sure all your ingredients get mixed and heated without disintegrating their healing properties.
- Now, melt the beeswax and coconut oil together in the double boiler, making sure not to overheat. You want the beeswax to simply combine with the coconut oil, keeping all the antimicrobial and antibacterial qualities intact.
- Remove from heat and set aside on a heat-safe surface.
- Slowly stir in the tea tree and lavender oils. It will smell amazing! Both tea tree (a powerful antiseptic) and lavender oils have their own healing properties, and you can always add other essential oils to your liking. I suggest bergamot or clary sage. You can heal yourself while inducing relaxation – what’s not to like about that?
- Finally, add in the witch hazel, swirl around with a hand blender for a moment, and allow to cool almost completely before you transfer your DIY balm into sealable glass jars or leftover make-up containers. Witch hazel helps to naturally heal wounds, swelling, and bruising. Before transferring the solution, you can blend on high for a few seconds to help with consistency.
Enjoy whenever you need some extra TLC, and natural healing.
 | Christina Sarich is a humanitarian and freelance writer helping you to Wake up Your Sleepy Little Head, and See the Big Picture. Her blog is Yoga for the New World. Her latest book is Pharma Sutra: Healing the Body And Mind Through the Art of Yoga. |
here goes moron troll DB (you figure that out); go away your the idiot here!!!! Obvious plant or just plain regular brainwashed douche!
Great DIY!
chemicals in it that you can’t pronounce
Deciding whether something is potentially dangerous or not based on whether you can pronounce it or not is utterly moronic. Just really, really stupid.
“Dihydrogen monoxide” sounds kinda scary. But hey, on the other hand I can pronounce “ricin” pretty easily!
Seriously, if you have inflamed skin or an infection, mixing up uncertified ingredients in a non-sterile environment is almost certainly more dangerous for you than anything in a tube of antibiotic ointment.
But don’t take my word for it. If you really believe in yourself, go for that Darwin Award! I’m sure taking medical advice from a person with zero medical training has never turned out bad before.
“Uncertified ingredients”? ROLFMAO at that one. Yeah, coconut oil and beeswax are *extremely* scary–not to mention that ridiculously dangerous witch hazel. Nobody should *ever* attempt making a personal care product. Nope–leave it to the corporations who obviously have their customer’s best interest in mind…They would *never* hurt people with any of those thousands of untested chemicals, would they?
“Uncertified” as in they may contain microbial contaminants. Yes, I don’t recommend anyone attempt to make their own homemade antibiotic ointment. It would be very easy to expose one’s self to additional infectious agents.
I’ve been making my own wound salve for a decade and not only has it never harmed me, it works better than the pharmaceutical stuff. 😉
Good for you. Glad you’ve never been harme.
The chances of anyone else being harmed by making their own wound salves are very small, presuming people use common sense and cleanliness. The likelihood that a lazy, sloppy idiot would even bother making such a salve is also small–they would be more apt to buy a tube of Neosporine or whatever. I don’t think you need to worry about them–or the people who are quite capable of making salves.
I make balms and lotions of all sorts, and they are safe and work better than the “normal” stuff which contains questionable and untested ingredients–though I do use a lot more ingredients than the recipe above which adds to the anti-microbial aspect. There’s no need to try scaring people away from taking care of their own needs as long as they’re doing so responsibly.