What’s good for your muscles?

Good preparation is essential to prevent injuries and increase performance. Before sports, it is worth warming up the muscles that will be stressed through a massage, for example with Weleda Arnica Massage Oil, and preparing them with gentle stretching exercises. This prevents tension and muscle soreness. A massage with Arnica Massage Oil promotes blood circulation and loosens the muscles.

You can also support your muscles during sports. With the Weleda Arnica Massage Roll-On with organic arnica blossoms, you can quickly and easily loosen tired and tense muscles thanks to its massage effect. It is handy and ideal for on the go, so you can use it anytime to relax your muscles.

After sports, give your muscles time to recover and regenerate. Depending on the sport, season, or weather, you may sometimes prefer refreshment, sometimes soothing warmth.

A shower with the aromatic Arnica Sport Shower Gel has a revitalising effect. Afterwards, you can massage in our Arnica Cooling Gel. This promotes recovery after intensive training or sports activity and has a pleasantly cooling effect on local complaints.

The massage with Weleda Arnica Massage Oil or Arnica Massage Body Butter warms and promotes blood circulation. This allows you to relax your muscles and prevent muscle soreness. After bathing or showering, the oil can be massaged into the still damp skin. The skin is soft and smooth and natural regeneration is stimulated. 

During training and recovery phases, our breath is an important tool. In water applications such as foot baths, showers, or full baths, the scent can also support relaxation. The scent of the oil or gel also affects us during massages. The Weleda Arnica Sports Care with its scent from 100% natural essential oils allows us to breathe deeply and soothingly. Thanks to the invigorating rosemary and relaxing lavender, the aromatic scent has a wonderfully balancing effect.

Arnica grows in the mountains of Central and Southern Europe. It thrives best under intense sunlight. The delicate plant prefers acidic and poor meadows, avoids lime, and grows both in valleys and at altitudes of 2800 meters. Its typical yellow flowers can be seen from May to August. Arnica is also called mountain arnica and contains valuable ingredients such as flavonoids and carotenoids.

The arnica for Weleda comes from controlled organic cultivation in Germany. Its flowers are picked, dried, and then used for an oil extract that is contained in our Arnica care products.

What is the difference? Sprains, bruises, and strains are blunt injuries. Sprains affect the joints. For example, when twisting, the ligaments are overstretched and fiber tears can occur.

A strain is the overstretching or overloading of a muscle, for example during sprints, quick stops, or changes of direction. Tears in the fine muscle strands can occur. The muscle hurts, usually becomes hard and sensitive to pressure.

A bruise is usually the result of a fall or a blow. Here too, the muscle fibers are damaged. Bruises and swelling are the result.

Proven since 1928: The first Arnica medications were already listed in the first Weleda medicine directory, such as Weleda Arnica Essence and Weleda Arnica Ointment 10%. Since then, numerous other medications with extracts from Arnica have been developed.

A strain usually hurts immediately after the muscle is overstretched. Muscle soreness occurs some time after exercise. If you have a strain, you should definitely take a break from sports and treat the strain. If you have muscle soreness – no matter how painful it is – you can continue training. It's best not to go full power right away. Maybe take it slow at first.