The harassment of various mosquitoes in summer is very annoying, especially the bites from time to time at night make it difficult to sleep peacefully and affect sleep. The craft editor will introduce to you how to make a mosquito repellent ointment. Although you cannot use it now, you can save it and it will come in handy when summer comes. This mosquito repellent ointment has a cooling and detoxifying effect. It is refreshing and cooling when applied on the body. Applying lithospermum ointment to the bag bitten by mosquitoes can also relieve itching. It is more effective than the recognized Liushen toilet water. Let’s take a look at how to make this pure natural mosquito repellent comfrey ointment:
Ingredients for making mosquito repellent Lithospermum ointment:
Olive oil, comfrey, Chinese medicinal materials, beeswax, disinfectant alcohol, small iron can, glass bowl, casserole. Both comfrey and Chinese medicinal materials can be purchased in traditional Chinese medicine stores. The ingredients of traditional Chinese medicine can be changed as appropriate.
One thing to note: Lithospermum has strong dyeing ability. When applying ointment, be careful not to contaminate it on your clothes.
ps: It is best not to use it on small friends. It is said that comfrey ointment is banned in France~
How to make mosquito repellent Lithospermum ointment:
1. Soak 50g of comfrey in olive oil for 24 hours (a week or a month is better), and the amount of olive oil is about 500ml.
2. Equipped with the following Chinese medicinal materials: 10g of Angelica sinensis, 10g of Astragalus membranaceus, 10g of Angelica dahuricae, and 5 pieces of myrrh.g, raw Diyu 5g, raw Rehmannia glutinosa 5g, mint 5g.
3. Soak the above Chinese medicinal materials in 250ml olive oil for one hour. During this period, use disinfectant alcohol to disinfect the small tin can and clean it.
4. Mix lithospermum oil and Chinese medicine, put it into a casserole, and simmer over low heat for 40 minutes. Be careful to stir occasionally to prevent scorching.
5. Pour the oil into a glass bowl, let it sit, cool, and filter through fine-meshed gauze. Meanwhile cut the beeswax into thin slices.
6. Add beeswax flakes to the filtrate, place the glass bowl in a pot and steam to melt the beeswax.
7. After the beeswax melts, take out the glass bowl and pour the oil into a sterilized small iron can while it is hot.
8. After cooling, the oil turns into paste. Store in refrigerator.