This 4-oz plantain salve is a deliberately simple skin moisturizer and topical balm. Just three ingredients: plantain (the common backyard medicinal herb, not the banana relative), olive oil, and beeswax. That’s it. No fragrances, no preservatives, no dyes, no synthetic emulsifiers — the kind of pre-industrial skin treatment that worked before pharmaceutical companies got involved with skin care.
Plantain (Plantago major) has been used in American and European folk medicine for centuries for its soothing properties on skin irritation, bug bites, minor cuts, dry patches, and general moisturizing. Olive oil carries the plantain into the skin and provides a base moisturizing layer; beeswax gives the salve enough body to stay on the skin rather than running off or evaporating quickly.
Apply directly to affected areas as a spot treatment, or use nightly as a general moisturizer for hands, elbows, knees, and dry-skin patches. The 4-oz tub lasts most users 3-6 months of regular use. For households moving toward simpler, single-ingredient personal care products, or anyone with sensitive skin that reacts to commercial moisturizer ingredients, this is the right starter purchase. Lehman’s catalog selection for natural personal care.
