Herbs for Healthy Skin

Tea

To make an herb tea, put one to two teaspoons of dried or fresh herb in a tea bag, tea ball or strainer. Pour very hot water — just less than boiling — over the herbs and steep for about five minutes. Washing with herb tea a very good way to treat skin infections or to treat broken skin to prevent infection from occurring.

First make a decoction or an infusion as directed above. Soak a washcloth in this solution and apply the washcloth to the affected

Compress

A compress is a way of applying an herb directly to the skin.

skin. Compresses can be hot or cold.

In fact, bathing in herbs works especially well because the skin is the largest organ and is very good at absorbing the benefits of herbs

Many of the beneficial components of herbs can be directly absorbed through the skin in the bathtub.

A warm bath can also be very relaxing. Use ½ cup or more of herbs in a muslin bag and let the warm bath water run over the bag dispersing the herbal compounds into the bath.

The muslin bag can then be used to wash the skin.

Try drinking sage tea or inhaling steam with sage to relieve nasal or bronchial congestion

n. A sage bath can be a soothing escape during a bout of the cold or flu.