This silky smooth bath soothes an itchy, growing belly and is gentle enough to use on baby's tender skin. The heavenly scent of chamomile and lavenderpromotes relaxation, making this a perfect herbal combination to use before bedtime.

This salve adds shea butter and beeswax to the same herbs and oil base as the Pregnant Belly Oil. Shea butter has scar healing qualities and creates a creamy consistency.

Calendula is an easily planted annual with orange and yellow flowers and alternate leaves. The unusual curlicue seedpods easily reseed themselves. This herb is an all purpose skin healing herb used to stop bleeding, wash wounds, heal cuts, abscesses, rashes, boils, chapped skin, and eczema. It relieves muscle cramps, painful swellings, hemorrhoids, and insect bites. It can be used in a footbath on swollen feet and as an eyewash on sore, tired eyes. A hair rinse reduces dandruff.

Yarrow is an aromatic herb that grows in meadows. It has alternate, wooly gray-green fern-like leaves, and its tiny, white flowers each have 4-6 ray petals that grow in flat-topped clusters. Put the leaves or flowers on wounds or a bloody nose to quickly stop the bleeding. Use a wash on rashes, runny sores, boils, poison ivy, chapped or cracked skin, and hemorrhoids. Drink to relieve indigestion and gas. Yarrow promotes sweating when taken to reduce a fever. It is also said that the smell repels mosquitoes.

Lavender is a perennial that grows up to two feet tall with many branches of gray-green linear leaves. The very aromatic purple flowers, which grow on terminal spikes, are gathered just before opening and used to relieve headaches, depression, exhaustion, and to promote relaxation and sleep. They are also used in herbal body care and aromatherapy for sachets and sleep pillows; relaxing baths; antiseptic face washes, steams, and toners; and creams and oils to relieve aches and pains.

Witch hazel is a shrub or small tree growing in the rich soils of the eastern part of the United States. The star shaped leaves become brilliant colors in the fall while the round fruits, which have projections, shoot their seeds several feet as they ripen. Witch hazel leaves and bark contain astringent tannins which stop internal and external bleeding. Both the bark and leaves are used to treat hemorrhoids, varicose veins, swelling and bruises, and sore nipples. Internally it stops diarrhea, vaginal discharge and excess menses. Witch hazel is an ingredient found in eye drops and many skin ointments.

Elder is a shrub or small tree with ovate, serrated leaves in paired leaflets with a single leaf at its tip. In the spring, it produces dense, flat umbels of sweet perfumed, cream-colored blossoms. A tea or tincture of these blossoms open up the sweat glands to promote sweating or break a fever during a cold or the flu. The blossoms soften skin and are often used in body care for face washes and steams, baths, and skin oils. As a compress, the blossoms reduce swelling and inflammation. In the late summer, Elder produces dark purple-black berries that are used in jams, jellies, and elderberry wine.