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Calendula, also known in the herbal world as “Mother of The Skin” is a flowering herb that seems to do well in just about all soil conditions. This wonderful plant not only adds beauty to the garden but offers medicinal and culinary benefits as well, and is most recognized for its effectiveness in treating skin problems such as wounds, burns, insect bites, shingles, eczema, and skin ulcers to name a few.
We grow and harvest Calendula every year, making infused oils and use the actual pedals of the plant in our goat milk soap bars. Calendula is very healthy for the skin and very mild. We recommend our Unscented or Calendula Oranges soaps bars for those who have extremely sensitive skin.
Harvesting Calendula is simple and can be a lot of fun, especially when the entire family gets involved. After picking the flowers we set them in drying racks out of direct sun light and moisture until they are completely dried. After they have dried we hand pick each pedal to use in our soaps, and store the rest in glass jars to use as needed.
Goat’s milk in general is extremely healthy for the skin, and when adding natural ingredients such as pure essential oils and actual pedals of the plant straight from the garden you couldn’t ask for a more healthier and natural soap bar.
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Physicians have been writing about Calendula and its amazing benefits for the skin for a very long time. The dried flowers of the plant were traditionally used in soups and stews to fight off illness, which is where it got the name Pot Marigold. The name Calendula comes from the Latin word Calendae, meaning the first day of the month, as this plant can bloom every month of the year in its native climate. Calendula is known for many health benefits but is most recognized for its effectiveness in healing skin problems, such as wounds, burns, insect bites, eczema, shingles and skin ulcers, to name a few.
Calendula can be taken internally as well as externally. For internal use, Calendula can be used in salads, and to spice up meats and fish; it also can be made in to a tea. Externally, Calendula is used in lotion salves, creams, soaps and refined oil. I use the Calendula that I grow in my garden in some of our goat’s milk soap, and have refined some Calendula oil which we use in our lip balms and also keep it handy for medicinal purposes as well.
Some of the amazing benefits Calendula oil has on the skin are;
1. Helps in healing wounds, cuts, bruises, scrapes, and inflamed skin.
2. Nourishes and softens dry chapped skin.
3. Is know to have antiseptic, anti fungal, and anti bacterial properties.
4. Very effective for treating sun burn, minor burns, acne, eczema, inflamed skin, and rashes.
5. Is very helpful in treating athletes foot.
6. Is used for relieving diaper rash.
7. Is know to relieve bug bites and stings.
These are just seven reason why this wonderful plant as earned the name among herbalist, “Mother of the Skin”. This is a must have plant in the garden, not only will it aid you and your household with wonderful medicinal and culinary values but will bring beauty to the garden all season long.