Capture Spring Time - Dandelion Flower Massage Oil

Find a big patch of big joyful springtime Dandelions and pick lots of flowers. Try and be grumpy while you do this, I did. It doesn't work. These spring-time dandelions are so big, soft and bursting with sunshine that it's impossible to avoid catching their cheer.

Fill some jars with them, then fill the soaces around them with oil (I used cheap canola, it's all I had on hand), then put the jars into some sunshine. Let them sit for a couple of weeks, then strain the oil. Store it somewhere dark and cool, and then use it up within a year. Some say it's better to dry the flowers out a bit before infusing in oil, but I'm skipping that because time to do these kinds of things is limited for me - I had a moment to do this and I went for it. I do see, looking a the pic that I need to add more oil so that the flowers are totally immersed, to avoid molding.

Dandelion oil is an external pain reliever excellent for arthritis, sore joints, and sore muscles. It's perfect for warm massages on sore spots in the winter, and the scent of spring is good for the spirits in the dark season too. Apparently it's very good for massaging sore pms breasts, and for decreasing cellulite. I plan to give small bottles away as gifts for the holidays, who wouldn't want to receive a small bottle of springtime?

To read from more sources about the benefits, uses and methods of making this oil let me google that for you