Marigold Calendula Officinalis
Calendula is Marigold
Calendula is a flower in the marigold family, also known as Calendula Officinalis.
Common names include, but are not limited to, Calendule (Italian), Scotch Marigold, English Garden Marigold, Fleur de Calendule (French), Pot Marigold.
Calendula is a member of the rather large Asteraceae family, which includes aster, daisy, and sunflower, among the 32,000 other known plants.
When a plant is used for medicinal purposes, it is in the "traditional herbal medicine" category. When it is used in personal care, such as in creams, lotions, and soaps for skin care, it is in the "botanical skincare" category.
How is Calendula different from Marigold?
Pleasant Aroma
Calendula is a marigold, with it’s yellow, orange, cream and deep orange/red flowers.
It is different than most marigolds, in that is has a very pleasant fruity orange-ish aroma.
Most marigolds have a strong unpleasant oder, which is why they are beloved by gardeners for keeping garden pests away.
Calendula is a healing herb, that is great for burns, bug bites, rashes, cuts, bruises and a whole host of skin ailments. Calendula contains a medicinal resin milk, that is extracted from the flowers.
Andy manually extracts this medicinal plant resin, slowly and carefully. The manual process leaves the most nutrition intact, making the resin able to pass on it's healing properties through the Calendula Stik. He then makes Ithaca Soap's healing Calendula Stik in small batches with our premium beeswax.
Not all calendula cream is equal
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Many homeopathic Calendula Creams are actually not that good for you. The company may originally have had good intentions, but the other ingredients in the cream may be harmful.
Some calendula creams are in poly vinyl gels (PVA). Click this laundry sheets link to read about microplastics, which are in some of these homeopathic creams.
These microplastics are carriers for other toxic ingredients can be absorbed through cuts, bruises, and abrasions on your skin. In their tiny mico format, after these microplastics enter your blood stream, can cross the blood brain barrier.
These ultra small nano particles, can also enter through heir follicles and sweat glands. Some are full of skin irritating acids and toxic petrochemicals
Many calendula creams are in bio engineered and or genetically modified carrier oils, such as Canola, corn or soy oils.
There are even calendula creams and lotions that are made with petroleum oil.
LiX Calendula Stik ingredients: Organic Calendula flowers, high quality beeswax, organic coconut oil, organic sunflower oil, lavender and peppermint essential oils
This simple flower is full of magic
Skin Benefits
There are a whole host of benefits of Calendula for skin, such as Winter skin cracks. Click the link below for more information.
Many years ago, a young mother came into my Ithaca Farmers Market booth. She walked right up to me and gave me a BIG hug. She then burst into tears. She was in a breast feeding group of new mothers, when someone said she had a rash on her nipples from breast feeding.
Within a few weeks, other mothers in the group also broke out, in what they found out to be mastitis, a yeast infection in the milk ducts. One of the women bought some of our Calendula Cream for the group members, which they said contributed to clearing up the infection.
This young mother was so grateful that she discovered a simply and natural remedy to gently clear up mastitis. All she had to do was wash her nipples after breast feeding and apply the cream. Even though this cream is not harmful to babies in any way, since it is a good soothing healer for diaper rash, breast feeding mothers, may want to consider washing nipples again before breastfeeding, until the mastitis is cleared up.