Iodine Salve Recipe

Iodine has super healing abilities. It's antifungal, antiparasitic, antibacterial and anitseptic. Use the iodine salve for any kind of skin condition including infections, boils, ringworm, cuts, scrapes, whatever!

Ingredients:
1 oz. extra virgin coconut oil
1 oz. shea butter
1 oz. jojoba oil
1/2 oz. sesame oil
1/2 oz. castor oil
1 oz. beeswax
44 drops Lugol's solution of iodine

Fill a pot with water 4-5" high, place on stove over medium heat. Pour liquid oils (jojoba, sesame & castor) into glass measuring cup with oz. measures (total volume - 2 oz). Add solid oils next- add coconut to bring total volume to 3 oz. Add shea butter to bring total volume to 4 oz. Stir mixture (I use a chopstick) as solid oils melt into the liquid. Add beeswax next...a good way to do that is to heat a knife over an open flame and cut off small chunks. A gas range is perfect for this, or use a candle. Add chunks of beeswax to bring total volume to 5 oz. Stir to melt the beeswax into the mixture. Remove from heat, add Lugol's and stir like mad to disperse into the oil mixture. This salve begins to solidify quite quickly, if that happens while stirring in the Lugol's it's ok to place the mixture back into the hot water bath to reliquify. Decant into container of choice - a wide-mouth glass jar is perfect for this. You can place in fridge to hasten solidification, but that's not necessary as this salve is solid at room temperature.