Cayenne and Basil salve can help reduce the pain that's caused by nerve damage that's healing,
neuropathy which is muscle weakness and numbness which is something that I have from my shoulders
down, all the way down to my fingertips. It can also help with muscle spasms and inflammation.
Like with any natural remedy please check with your medical practitioner before you use it
and if you're pregnant or have epilepsy don't use the pure basil essential oil.
just leave that out. Let's get into it.....
Six weeks before we make the salve we need to cold Infuse the Cayenne oil
in a sterilized jar, add two tablespoons of dry cayenne powder,
three quarters of a cup of olive oil or grape seed oil, place the lid on
and give it a good shake, making sure all the Cayenne is mixed in properly.
Keep it out of sunlight, somewhere where you'll remember to shake it daily for a few weeks
and once a week for the last few weeks, all up for six weeks.
When it's time to make the salve, strain the cayenne powder out using a coffee filter and
a fine strainer. When you're making salves it's a good idea to have everything set
up before you start making it because it sets quite quickly once it's made.
The supplies you'll need are some beeswax, I have mine in a heavy based saucepan. A pouring jug,
a heavy based saucepan for mixing all the ingredients in, some coconut oil, I also have a
spoon and a tablespoon and that's for measuring my beeswax and this one is for my coconut oil,
the coconut oil, I'm using basil pure essential oil today, a measuring cup for the Cayenne oil
which I poured into a coffee filter that's sitting on a strainer over a mug to catch all that Cayenne
oil at the bottom and make sure I don't have any bits of fine residue of the cayenne powder
in there. I also have my clean storage containers with some lids and my heavy by saucepan is sitting
on a wooden board to protect the table because when it gets hot it will damage the table. When
you're working with the cayenne oil or using your cayenne itself, you do not want to get
it in your eyes, around your mouth or on any open wounds or cuts because it will hurt a lot.
I'm adding in half a cup of the Cayenne oil
15 drops of the basil oil, always use a Pure essential oil for your medicinal
properties and not a fragrant oil. Add four tablespoons of organic coconut oil
and four tablespoons of melted beeswax.
So I'm going to heat all these ingredients up on the stovetop.
Beeswax is highly flammable so always heat it on a low heat whether you're melting the beeswax or
whether you're making salves, keep an eye on it and keep it on a low heat until it's nearly melted
carefully pour it into a jug
and then into the storage containers
try and fill them up as even as possible, leaving about one to two millimeters of
head space, which is about quarter of an inch, now we just have to let them
set and not be tempted to touch them because it will leave a fingerprint
and also be contaminating the solutions It's so beautiful! How we use it, it's
quite a firm one so I just get my finger in there like that and I can rub it on
rub it right in, the good thing about the Cayenne is that you can grow it yourself
and then pick them and dehydrate them, blend them up and then they'll be ready to use. Try
and use fresh cayenne, as fresh as possible, but use it dehydrated before you make your oil
I find it quite comfortable, it doesn't burn my skin or hurt in any way
but it is gently warming my skin. I would apply this just before bed and put cotton gloves on so
that I wouldn't be accidentally touching my eyes, my nose, around my mouth because you definitely
don't want to be getting Cayenne on anything sensitive because it will sting and burn. When I'm
using the salve elsewhere, say on my feet or my back then I definitely make sure I wash my hands
thoroughly so that I don't get it accidentally anywhere that I don't want it and obviously I
wouldn't be using this on little children and babies but I would be using gloves if I was
applying it to myself if I had a baby because I would want to make sure that I wasn't having any
traces that I would accidentally get onto my baby or in my baby's eye or mouth or anywhere
else if I was doing a nappy change or whatever, I would definitely be taking precautions for that
once it has set, I place the lids on. I have these little plastic tops and then the lid screws on
label your salves and put the use by date on and the way you find out your use by date is by
looking at your oils that you've used in this product, so whether it's your essential oil,
your coconut oil and the olive oil or grapeseed oil, depending which oil you used
and whichever date is first will be the use by date that you are having for your salves.
Thanks for watching, I'll see you in the next video.