About Cherry Balm

I first started making an herbal ointment for tattoo and piercing aftercare when I got back from working in Australia in 1994. I had used a nice smelling diaper ointment while in Australia and became spoiled; Going back to A & D, which smells like cod livers was not going to work for me anymore! So, I did research to find herbs that would help close the skin and prevent infection. One of them was tea tree oil, which provided the scent of the Original Cherry Balm. Even though straight tea tree oil is bad for tattoos, a small amount in an ointment works really well because it's antibacterial.

In the beginning, I made the herbal ointment to give out to my tattoo customers, but it healed so well that the demand grew. So I started selling it out of the shop I worked in, Fatty's Custom Tattooz in D.C. And from word of mouth, I started getting orders by phone from places as far away as Alaska. That's when I started working out the look of the jars and a logo, creating a display case for other tattoo shops and running a small ad in Skin & Ink Magazine, which I write for.

Since then, the F.D.A. has disallowed one of the main ingredients, comfrey root, from being used in the U.S because of cancer concerns linked with the plant. Comfrey was the ingredient that made the tattoo heal fast, sometimes within 3-4 days and is still on the shelf in Burt's Bees products and other natural skin products. But, I have worked with two labs to formulate a new and improved version of Cherry Balm over the last year to omit comfrey. I also decided to make Cherry Balm with a natural base instead of petroleum, for the natural market, as well as add the scent of cherries so that we all can enjoy the scent of our healing tattoos and piercings!

To learn more about the other herbs in Cherry Balm, click the Cherry Balm Link. To hear from others who have tried Cherry Balm, click the Testimonials Link.
I hope you like Cherry Balm as much as I do!

Danielle