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free skin care · Tue Mar 23, 2010 5:11 am

If any of you find your hair is falling out, like I did, the bathroom always full of hair and your brush chockers with it, try this recipe. I made it and the difference is unbelievable. It is a bit fiddly but worth it.

Dried Herbs. 1oz each of comfrey, nettle, black walnut, sage and rosemary. Mix each ounce of herb with 4 Oz's olive oil, and let it sit for about 3 weeks. Strain the oil, I throw the leftover herbs into the garden as a nice mulch. Then mix the oils together. Take out 3 Oz's of the oil mix, and put it on a saucepan over a low heat, together with 3oz coconut oil, 3 oz Shea butter, 2 oz beeswax (you might want to melt this in the microwave first, it has a very high melt point)and lastly,
3 oz jojoba. When it has melted pour into a jar and add 1 teaspoon each of rosemary, thyme and lavender essential oil. When it has become solid it is ready to use. Just comb it through your hair and leave on for at least 20 minutes, although I leave it overnight. You shouldn't use this if you are pregnant.

free skin care · Tue Mar 23, 2010 7:17 am

Thanks so much for posting this formula, Dreamskin.

I have some questions, though.

Are you using black walnut leaves (or hulls) and are you using comfrey leaves (or root)?

Also, why ae you seeping the herbs in seperate containers of oil for 3 weeks and then straining and mixing the oils together? Is there a reason you have found for not putting them all together inthe approbriae amount of olive oil needed and letting them sit that way for 3 weeks? I think I will do it that way unless you have tried it and it didn't work well. ...also..have you experimented with it w/o the beeswax...just curious as to why you are including it?

free skin care · Tue Mar 23, 2010 10:38 am

I'm cross-posting this from info i posted on the 'va-ja-ja' thread in the skincare forum:

i feel a need to say that there is a great deal of controversy in the herbal community about using comfrey (either internally or externally...and root or leaf)..

the medical 'establishment' so to speak, in it's orientation toward the safety of herbs would definetely say it's damaging to the liver because of certain of it's components....

but usually the professional grassroots herbalists, who imo, are the 'true' herbalists/herbwives/ wise woman healers.. would disagree...because in these 'establishment' type scientific studies specific isolated components are extracted from the herb in question and tested in outrageous amounts in baby mice (etc.) not therfore not giving a real picture of how the herb works in total, with all it's components, in normal dose, in humans....

but in the case of comfrey, like i say, even the grassroots professional herbwives, etal are in deep controversy about comfrey's damaging effect on the human liver..and whether or not it's also damaging to the liver when absorbed through the skin...

( in putting it on your head hair..one could avoid the scalp easily..(but I don't know if this cream would be effective if not applied directly to the scalp).

So here is part of an article by henriette kress... who has a herbal list serve populated by primarily professional well-known herbalists of the vitalist/herbwife/ prospective (some of who operate well-known herbal schools)

take note of the 3rd paragraph about the PA's in comfrey penetrating through the skin. (Again there is some controversy in thE GRASSROOTS community about this perspective..but none in the 'established' medical perspective regarding this herb:

Yes, the pyrrolizidine alkaloids (PAs) in comfrey do hurt your liver. Yes, you have to take lots of the herb in order to get veno-occlusive liver disease. No, you can't blame that disease on pharmaceuticals taken at the same time - they'd hurt the liver in _other_ ways. So don't take lots of comfrey every day for weeks at a time; if you do believe that you need it (and not, say, Calendula, which works much the same in wounds, or Plantago, which works much the same way both in wounds and in coughs; neither of these are problematic), take it in small amounts.

Know that if your liver is healthy it'll get hit worse than if it's already compromised. That is because the hepatotoxic PAs are catalysts, much like freons in the ozone layer - each cell tries its best to detoxify this molecule, can't do it, dies, and the next one tries, until the PA is passed out unchanged.

And know, too, that PAs are absorbed through the skin. That means that it's a really bad idea to use comfrey long-term for wounds.

Some comfreys are more toxic than others. Russian comfrey (Symphytum x uplandicum) is one of the worst. And there's more hepatotoxic PAs in comfreys that are grown without a real winter, eg. in California.

free skin care · Wed Mar 24, 2010 4:02 am

I took this from the herb gardens website.

While comfrey has finally gained some acceptance from the “official” medical community, there is also a quite a bit of fear surrounding the consumption of comfrey. Recently, the FDA banned comfrey from all commercially produced herbal supplements. Bear in mind that the FDA decided to ban the plant only after injecting unnaturally large amounts of the plant's inherent alkaloids into animal test subjects, which then died of liver failure, just as they would have had the alkaloids been extracted from a carrot, concentrated, and injected into their bloodstreams. If nothing else, know that under no circumstances should a pregnant or nursing woman ingest comfrey. That's a commandment that should be heeded and taken seriously for many herbs. Consider yourself fairly warned in the name of science.

Fortunately, it is not necessary to ingest comfrey to reap its greatest medicinal benefits. Used externally, comfrey is completely safe, even for babies, and it is in its use as a wound dressing that comfrey's magic shines through

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