Infusing Olive oil with different herbs and flowers is simple but yet rewarding activity. The oil can be used for all sorts of things from cooking to natural homemade beauty treatment. I use them heavily for soap making and salve making (mixing them with melted beeswax).
The Rosemary bushes at the front garden have been thriving and needed a bit of a prune. I took this opportunity to take a few sprigs for propagation, drying for cooking and a few for the oil infusion.
Rosemary infusing in Olive oil.
Lavender is another beneficial floral infusion that I use for soap and salve. I gathered this from the front garden, but still leaving a large amount for the bees to indulge in.
Lavender flowers infusing in Olive oil.
There is no fresh roses at the moment in the garden, but I use dried rose petals that I kept from last spring and picked a few fresh Calendula flowers for this infusion. All parts of the Calendula flowers are used in this.
Dried Rose Petals and Calendula Flowers infusing in Olive oil.
Lastly, the Violet plants have been growing like weeds in the back garden. I found one way to control this is to keep picking the fresh flowers before they had the opportunity to seed. The leaves of this plant is also beneficial. I use this mainly for eczema salve and it works like a charm.
Violet Flowers and Leaves infusing in Olive oil.
This is a fun and simple activity with so much benefit. And remember to always try to grow your own plants without the use of chemical. This will minimise your chance of getting any allergic reaction from the infused oil application on your skin.
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