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10 Free Herbal Projects for DiY Gifts

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Glad you made it over here.  I wanted to give you a few herbal projects you can make this week to get started on your winter gift list.  These will help you create gifts that your loved ones will love and they will double your joy.  You’ll get the joy of making it with your own hands and the joy of giving.  That’s a double win.

I believe in quick wins.  Most of these gifts can be made in an hour or two with very little investment.  You can easily double or triple the recipes for multiple gifts from one crafting session.

Don’t just make these for your gift list though. Make some for yourself as well.  You’re worth your time.  Too often we make stuff for others and then give it all away, without taking the time to make gifts for ourselves.  But today, I give you permission to love yourself.  Make something special because you are worth it.

10 Free Herbal Projects for DiY Gifts

 

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14 Homegrown Healing Salves from Local Plants ebook

Herbal projects for gift giving

Now let’s get started on these herbal projects for gift giving!

Cayenne Pepper -- Ginger -- St. Johns Wort Salve for aches, pains, inflammation, -- Joybilee Farm

 

 

Warming Cayenne – Ginger Salve

 

 

This soothing headache salve can be made from fresh lavender blossoms and peppermint leaves from your garden. If you don’t have any in your garden you can use dried leaves and dried blossoms to make this. The fragrance will be barely noticable in the finished salve but the herbs will contribute their herbal actions when in contact with the skin. The aromatic essential oils give the fragrance to this salve rather than the herbs.

DiY Headache Salve from your Garden

 

 

Make an easy food safe wood conditioner for you wooden cutting boards and wooden kitchenware.

 

Food Safe Wood Conditioner for Cutting Boards

 

 

try my personal anti-aging serum recipe. I find this soothes the tiredness and takes away the dryness. It also reduces the appearance of fine lines. When I formulated the recipe I picked oils, herbs, and essential oils that were known to fight the signs of aging, protect from free radical damage, and repair and rejuvenate the skin, as well as moisturize.

 

Elderflower Anti-Aging Serum

 

 

Learning how to make lip balm is the entry “drug” to making our own cosmetics, deodorants, tooth powder, hand lotion, eye serum, face moisturizer, bath salts, Foot balm, and massage bars. The techniques used in making lip balm are similar to making most other cosmetic products, except soap.

 

DiY Lip Balm

 

 

Every August parents of preschoolers and elementary students buy a box of crayons. Last year's crayons are half used and broken, lying in the kitchen drawer or a box, neglected, but not useless. Don't throw them out. Crayons are made with parafin wax and lab created pigments. They are petroleum products. They never break down in the landfill. They aren't biodegradable.

 

Fun Multicoloured Crayons for Creative Play

 

Not herbal enough?  Add a few drops of essential oil that matches the colours of each crayon — mint for green, lavender for purple, cinnamon for red, for instance.

You’ll have a little aromatherapy while you colour, too.

 

Pine salve is a traditional drawing salve, that draws infections, slivers, and inflammation out of the body. It reduces pain and swelling, helping the body heal itself. One way it works is by increasing peripheral circulation by counter irritation. While you could make pure pine salve with just pine oleoresin, beeswax, and oil, this recipe uses infused oils to work synergistically reducing pain and inflammation.

 

Pine Pitch Salve that Really Works

 

 

Make a bluebird house from a single board.

DiY Bluebird Houses 

You don’t think this fits with herbal projects? Sure, this one is herbal.  It’s made with pine boards!

 

Plant the entire seed bomb on bare ground by digging a shallow hole and covering the seed bomb with 1/8th inch of soil. Keep moist at all times, while you are waiting for the seeds to germinate.

DiY Seed Bombs

 

 

Learn how to make a sock lamb using just hand sewing stitches with this tutorial.

 

DiY Sock Lambs

Not herbal enough?  Stuff the lamb with lavender blossoms, hop flowers, or linden flowers, next to the poly stuffing,  and you’ll make a lamb dream pillow!

 

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