[Margaret Pilkington]

Julie, you only need a few drops in a carrier oil(something like almond oil...or cheaper and just as good rapeseed oil)...another remedy, but you'd have to get this at the chemists is icthammol...it is brown and gungy and smells abit like coal tar....you plaster it onto some lint and then bandage it to the affected bruise...everyone will avoid you, but it does work...and you won't be able to do the washing up with bandaged hands.