46 Amazing Things to Make from Your Garden: Garden Remedies

Insect bites often take the cake for needing a garden remedy! Make a DIY Plantain Salve to help soothe rashes, burns, and insect bites or stings. Use plantain leaves from your garden!

I am a sucker for shower bombs or shower steamers and will pay good money for them. But, now that you mention it, a DIY shower steamer project sounds like a perfect garden remedy to try at home. Add some dried lavender buds from your garden to further enhance the fragrance!

A batch of elderflower tea can help ease a cold, offering soothing relief for respiratory inflammation and a host of other ailments. I love tea for a sore throat and our girls love their elderberry vitamins for immune support as recommended by their pediatrician. Elderflowers precede elderberries on the same plant, so if you're lucky enough to grow them, you should try this healthful remedy.

Enjoy this calming DIY garden remedy that's helpful to your skin. With just three ingredients, this DIY facial is super simple to make at home and sounds like it works for all different skin types. Mixing different ingredients can help with hydrating dry skin, exfoliation, and more.

Dried calendula flowers bring soothing relief to baby bottoms and other sensitive skin. This DIY calendula healing balm can also help with scrapes, cuts, and rashes. The recipe is relatively simple, but leave yourself some time for the calendula oil to set.

Make good use of the mint taking over your garden and the lovely calendula flowers with this herbal bath salt recipe. Soften skin in the bath and enjoy the fragrance of this highly adaptable recipe you can adjust to fit your own favorite fragrances.

Besides the lovely yellow color, this DIY dandelion salve can be useful for itchy, dry skin or as a soothing ointment for aches and pains - perhaps even a massage rub. This garden remedy recipe sounds nice and easy to make, whether you forage for dandelions or simply have them popping up all over your yard.

Fresh mint leaves give this peppermint coconut sugar scrub an invigorating kick. And let's be honest, don't we all have some extra mint we need to use up from around the garden?! This delightful beauty recipe looks like a fun afternoon activity to enjoy solo or even with older kids.

Wild violets from the garden or those you forage will make a lovely homemade violet soap. These pretty soaps look like fantastic gift ideas as well. Violets are believed to offer some health and skin benefits, making wild violet a lovely choice for handcrafted garden remedies.

Lilacs boast an intoxicating, unforgettable scent. Make lilac oil from the flowers of your own trees and shrubs for use in your own beauty products.

If you've ever needed a treatment for razor burn (or sunburn, bug bites, or dry skin!), this one's for you. Make great use of the wild violets you find with a soothing treatment that looks and smells lovely.

Prolific lemon balm will spread and take over just like mint. No matter where you're growing it, you can find wonderful home garden remedies to try, like this lemon balm cold sore lip balm.

Sugar scrubs work very well for gentle exfoliation. Try this calming and cooling cucumber basil sugar scrub to awaken your skin.

We all know how tough gardening can be on the hands sometimes - especially when weeding! Try this rejuvenating lemon and thyme gardener hand scrub to cleanse and freshen up your tired skin.

This lovely rose petal sugar scrub looks so decadent and delightful using beautiful rose petals from your garden. So luxurious, this scrub would make a wonderful gift (or even a gift to yourself!) while also offering a special activity to enjoy as a family.

Growing loofah (luffa gourd) is one of our favorite new veggies to try. We've heard they are delicious while small, but we're more excited to grow luffa for the sponge-like fibers we can make into unique soap crafts like this homemade soap loofah featuring lavender and chamomile.

These homemade calendula bath bombs offer relaxation rolled in a lovely ball. Many believe the medicinal properties of calendula help with health and skincare. Either way, these bath bombs are sure to bring peace and stress relief in the bath.

Aloe Vera, turmeric, papaya and other garden-fresh ingredients can work together to create a soothing face mask treatment. This post offers five different recipes to try for homemade beauty face masks.

Lavender is long believed to aid in relaxation and stress relief. Try this sweet lavender bath soak for a relaxing change of pace.

Face cream itself is so relaxing! Aloe Vera continues to be widely revered for its soothing, healing properties. This face mask moisturizes without being greasy. Enjoy!

Rose water is easy to make at home and works nicely as a facial toner. Colored rose petals should add a bit of color to the rose water. Enjoy making this luxurious beauty aid from your own rose bushes.

This natural, herbal calendula balm recipe calls for calendula infused oil, which makes lovely use of your flowers. The base of the balm relies on beeswax for a smooth, spreadable texture. Use this skin balm as a kid-friendly, natural skincare remedy.

Who doesn't love a moisturizing dollop of body butter?! This luxuriously decadent whipped body butter features wild violets for a sweet twist.

Try this chamomile calendula bath salts soak recipe for sore muscles and stress relief. This beneficial garden remedy calls for chamomile flowers and calendula petals from your garden.

A touch of evergreen lifts spirits with a robust fragrance and festive appearance. Try this pine resin drawing salve to coax out splinters or ease tired muscles.

Styptic powder helps to stop bleeding, so it's great to have some on hand when shaving or for random boo boos. (After my bout with removing poison hemlock from our garden, I had to do a double-take with the yarrow!)

Beautiful enough to offer as a gift, these rose petal bath bombs make even more great use of your garden's rose petals. Create these stunning rose petal bath bombs for yourself or someone special.

Luxurious rosehip oil is believed to be healthy for skin, hair and nails, boasting antioxidants and essential fatty acids. Try rosehip seed oil as an antiaging skincare treatment. This garden remedy recipe will make excellent use of the ripe rosehips in your garden.

Nourish your skin with natural homemade rose facial cream. This rich and emollient cream brings the beauty of roses to your skincare regimen.

Whether from your garden or using dried calendula, this oil can be useful to have on hand. Calendula oil works great in handcrafted lotions, balms, butters, and creams. Try making this calendula oil in just a day!

Enjoy so much relaxation packed into a lovely bath bomb. This bath bomb recipe combines chamomile and rose hips for the ultimate in stress relief and calm recovery.

Delight little ones by doing this garden craft with them or surprising them with a jar of homemade pixie dust. This DIY aromatherapy powder adds a delicate mood to sleepy time.

A foot soak is a fantastic home beauty treatment to make from fresh ingredients in your garden. This magnesium rosemary foot soak recipe soothes sore feet and aims to help your body absorb more magnesium topically. Enjoy making and using this relaxing soak!

I'm a true sucker for coconut so this garden remedy is high on my list. Homemade lip balm made from roses and coconut sounds divine and this instructional recipe will show you how to do it.

Homemade bath tea bags can be fun and unique home herbal remedies from your garden. Make these for your own use or as special gifts for loved ones. Lots of different flowers, herbs and garden goodies work well to create these relaxing soaks or your own versions.

Few things are as invigorating as a peppermint foot scrub. The minty goodness wakes up tired toes, heels, and soles, yet leaves them feeling uber relaxed. Enjoy making this tingly peppermint scrub for your feet using garden fresh ingredients.

Cherries are said to be just about bursting with antioxidants! Take it a step further by making a sour cherry basil antioxidant water that tastes great using sour cherries and basil from your garden.

Lavender floral water offers a soothing and relaxing treatment for the skin. Use this DIY lavender water as a toner to improve your facial care routine.

If eye cream is missing from your skincare regimen, now's a great time to whip up a batch. Harvest the power of antioxidant rosehips when you make this DIY eye cream at home.

Believed to offer many skincare benefits, calendula face oil is a nice, natural choice for your beauty routine. Enjoy turning lovely medicinal flowers into a healthy facial oil.

Shower steamers are the stuff dreams are made of! These herbal essential oil infused shower bombs turn your next shower into a spa-like experience. Enjoy making these *almost* as much as you love using them!

Burns and sunburn both seem to improve with the use of Aloe Vera and it's one of my favorite houseplants. This super simple recipe makes it sound so easy and so much fun to make your own Aloe Vera gel at home. I can't wait to try this!

Have you heard? Lotion bars are all the rage! It's so exciting to have a garden-friendly recipe to try for this vegan solid lotion bar. My kids would definitely love making lotion bars this season. See ya later, dry skin!

This healing salve leverages the leaves of a plant commonly mistaken for a weed. Try making this useful concoction to alleviate minor skin irritations.

Moisturize your hair with this rich hair mask featuring avocado and coconut oil in a potion you can mix together yourself. Even avocados that've seen better days will be better used in a hair mask than the trashcan. Hydrate your hair for a relaxing and restorative treatment at home.

Thought of as a weed by some and a medicinal herb by others, the dandelion is oft valued for making tea, wine, salves and more. This recipe for dandelion tea uses any part of the dandelion and may even work as a coffee substitute for some!