Did you know Rosemary, a culinary herb, can be used to treat headaches? Researching this herb brought to light that rosemary can help reduce insomnia and relax muscles. Upon finding this out, I dove into my books and started researching, hoping to find a missing link for my migraine salve.  Sure, my migraine roll-on worked very well, but I needed to find a new way to produce it. The roller balls I used, and from many different suppliers, all leaked and created a mess. I was losing product and customers were not happy with the packaging. So, I needed to find something new, a new way to present the original recipe, but in a solid form. A salve in its simplest form is made with oil and beeswax and add essential oils, if need be, to boost the effects. Seeing that I am not one to do anything simple, I needed to have an oil that worked for headaches, and my salve not be full of essential oils since I dislike the idea of doctoring my salves and hiding the purity of the ingredients.  

I love infused oils and in the wintertime it’s a bit more tedious to make since I must use the fast method, which is cooking the herb for hours in a carrier oil, Olive oil in this case and infusing the dried herb of Rosemary.  The lovely thing about this method is the aroma of the herb as it cooks slowly. The entire house smelled like Rosemary. Now I cannot for sure tell if the salve smells of Rosemary since I am so used to different aromas, but what I do know is that Rosemary gives the salve a unique boost for helping reduce the dilation of blood vessels that cause migraines. 

Rosemary is one of the herbs that has substantial anti-inflammatory properties that is used for joint pain like arthritis. To keep within the near same parameters of my original recipe, I then added Lavender and Peppermint essential oil to the mixture, which is the same essential oil combo I used in my migraine roll-on.  Price of these tins will run $5.00 starting in January. Now I just need to figure out labeling design which is the hard part.