All Heal Salve

When a horse comes in with an open wound, a stubborn case of proud flesh, or scratches that just will not clear up, every owner wants the same thing: a treatment that works without the harsh chemicals. Denise's All Heal Salve was built for exactly that moment. It is an all-natural, food-grade salve formulated to support the body's own healing, drawing toxins out of a wound rather than sealing them in. The result is a single jar that earns its place in the tack room, the barn aisle, and the trail kit alike.

What is Denise's All Heal Salve?

Denise's All Heal Salve is a holistic topical treatment built entirely from food-grade ingredients, with an Ansi/NSF activated-carbon base joined by olive oil, sea salt, organic vitamins, trace minerals, antioxidants, polyphenols, amino acids, electrolytes and enzymes. There are no petroleum bases, antibiotics, essential oils or synthetic medications in the formula, and it is hypoallergenic. Because every component is food grade, the same jar that treats a wound on the outside can be fed in small amounts to support detoxification on the inside. It is highly concentrated, so a little goes a long way.

The salve is described by its maker as anti-toxin, anti-inflammatory, anti-fungal, anti-bacterial and anti-allergen, all in one product. It is water and sweat resistant once applied, so it stays put through a working day, and it doubles as a natural deterrent against flies, gnats and mosquitoes around a healing site.

How does the salve actually heal a wound?

The activated charcoal base is the heart of the formula. It works like a magnet, pulling toxins, bacteria and debris up and out of the tissue instead of trapping them under the skin. At the same time, the salve promotes aerobic healing by letting oxygen reach the wound bed, which is what helps a wound close cleanly from the inside out and discourages scarring. The food-grade ingredients work alongside the body to attack bacteria and fungus while the natural healing process does its job, which is why so many users reach for it on the wounds that other products could not move.

What conditions can it treat in horses?

The salve was developed for the full range of barn problems: open wounds and lacerations, abscesses, proud flesh, scratches and mud fever, thrush, white line disease, summer sores, sweet itch, hives, cellulitis, sarcoids, puncture wounds, stone bruises, and even the difficult cases of pythiosis (swamp cancer). For proud flesh in particular, the approach is gentle by design: the wound is never scrubbed or irritated, just kept packed with salve and rinsed with a simple sea-salt solution between applications. Because the same jar is safe on dogs, cats and people, it tends to become the one treatment a household keeps for every skin emergency.

How do you apply it?

Application is simple. For an unbandaged wound, apply a generous layer two or more times a day; for a bandaged wound, once a day is enough, leaving the salve on for at least fifteen minutes so it can work. Between applications, the wound is cleaned with a mild sea-salt rinse (about one tablespoon of sea salt to a quart of water) and gently patted dry, never scrubbed. For laminitis support the feet can be packed and wrapped for roughly twenty-four hours and changed daily, and because the formula is food grade it can also be fed in small measured amounts to support healing from within. The concentrated formula means the 16-ounce jar is the practical choice for large animals, multiple animals, or the toughest cases.

Denise built this salve out of four decades of hands-on experience. She has owned and worked with horses for forty years, including time as a groom at Monmouth County Race Track and with hunter and jumper operations in Maryland, and she spent over thirty years in the medical field as a paramedic, an EMS instructor and educator, an emergency room technician and a veterinary technician. She set out to make a treatment for her own beloved animals that was free of harsh, caustic chemicals. Development took more than a year of researching each ingredient on its own before combining them, and the finished salve was used quietly for over ten years before she decided to share it more widely, simply because it worked so well as an alternative to the medications she wanted to avoid.