long story short, i had surgery. i need as many different homemade herbal/natural remedies or creams or oils or whatever to help in the healing of the incisions and scarring.
if you know of any, please list them
thank you so much
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long story short, i had surgery. i need as many different homemade herbal/natural remedies or creams or oils or whatever to help in the healing of the incisions and scarring.
if you know of any, please list them
thank you so much
I used Vitamin E, with the blessing of my plastic surgeon, when I had surgery on my face. It healed up very nicely in short order and you can barely see the scar now. I applied it liberally once a day right before bed and rubbed it in, the plastic surgeon told me that massaging the area would help the scar to break down and sure enough he was right. Just once a day don't get carried away, is what he told me. Have you talked to your doc about this yet? (time on massaging the area was less than five minutes, btw this was my tear duct down onto my nose so it was oober sensitive)
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yah. the suggestion was to use the scar creams over the counter. i don't like using them because so many times i am either allergic to one of the ingredients, or my skin is so sensitive that i get a rash. thus the desire for the recipes to make my own.
the vitamin e is a good one. my doctor did caution me to be sure about the vitamin e though as many companies are also putting selenium (i think that was the one) in with the vitamin e and that causes skin discoloration (which obviously i want to avoid LOL). they said to make sure i knew the source and double checked it
Pure Vitamin E oil is probably the best. If you have access to comfrey, blending some up with a bit of water and applying it like a poultice to the scar area will help a lot... it contains allantoin, which is a skin cell rebuilder. It works! (hubby uses a comfrey salve I make up for cows who have sliced or otherwise damaged teats badly- he says he wouldn't farm without it)
Basically, tincture of time will solve most of it...
Summerthyme
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also, what about coconut oil? i have cold pressed, raw, unfiltered coconut oil. i also have all natural red palm oil as well. would these be helpful?
When I had surgery on my elbow I ended up with a 12" scar. The physical therepist gave me cocoa butter to rub on the scar. I still have a really visible scar but the cocoa butter made my skin around the scar heal well and I never went through that itchy phase when wounds are healing. And by rubbing lotion/cream/whatever on the scar it helps desensitize the area so it won't hurt so much as it's healing.
You can easily make some comfrey oil, which will work well and probably is a lot easier than putting a messy poultice of raw leaves on...
And yes, coconut oil is a nice emollient oil.
So, if you want to combine them, heat some comfrey leaves in the coconut oil (I use a big roasting pan in the oven for this- you can do it on the stove top if you're watching it carefully and don't let it get too hot... you do NOT need a kitchen fire. Amounts? Enough oil to cover the leaves, basically.
Cook until the leaves get crispy. Then strain (a wire strainer works well... you can sort of moosh on the leaves with your hands, and if some leaf gets into the oil, it's no big deal)
You can add your vitamin E oil to this. And then, if you want to get fancy or make it a lot easier on yourself to apply it (lots less messy), add some wax (beeswax if you can get it is really nice, but if not, paraffin will work. I use "candle sand" for the cows salves... I don't waste expensive beeswax on them! LOL).
About 1 ounce of wax to 1 cup of oil seems to work if you're using coconut oil. I can't tell you exactly because it varies so much, depending on the type of oils and the temperatures. I have to use about half as much wax in the winter months as summer... or we can't get the salve out of the tin in the barn! A few drops of lavender essential oil would be a really nice addition- don't use citrus essential oils, as they can also cause skin sensitivity to light, and discoloration. Lavender is very healing...
If you do make this salve up, it can be used on all sorts of minor problems, like kid's scrapes and hurts, or sunburn.
Summerthyme