How to Make a Pine Needle Bath Tea

You can use pine needles and pine cones collected from your own back yard.

Pine is an excellent natural remedy for skin conditions like psoriasis and eczema. A good long soak in a pine needle bath can ease itching and even relieve crusty, cracked and bleeding skin. Soothing the symptoms of these skin disorders is often half the battle in relieving the issue all together, as the insufferable itching makes it difficult for patients to leave the irritated skin alone long enough for it to heal. In this article, we will discuss how to make a pine needle bath tea that will relieve your itchiness and send you on the road to epidermal recovery.

Things You'll Need

• Large pot
• Water
• 1 pound of pine needles and pine cones
• Gallon jug
• Strainer
• Large bowl

Instructions

How to Make a Pine Needle Bath Tea

1. Fill the large pot with water. Leave about five inches between the water level and the lip of the pot.

2. Bring the water to a rolling boil. This is when large bubbles are regularly coming to the top of the water and bursting.

3. 

   Boil the pine cones and needles for half an hour. This will create a wonderful, sharp smell that pervades your kitchen and your house. You may need to lower the stove temperature slightly so that the needles do not burn and stir the pot with a wooden spoon to prevent scorching.

4. Strain out the needles and cones. You can catch the bath tea in a large bowl. Throw the needles and cones away outside.

5. Store the bath tea in the gallon jug.It must sit for 13 hours before you use it in your bath. Add one cup to your bath water, then sit and enjoy a relaxing soak of at least half an hour to relieve your sore and inflamed skin.