Herb Of The Week - Jewelweed - Recipe - Soap

[Guest guest]

This easy recipe can be used with either glycerin soap base or plain

rebatching soap base

 

Ingredients:

 

2 cups soap base

1/2 cup jewelweed maceration*

5-10 drops skin soothing essential oil (such as lavender) (optional)

 

Instructions:

Melt soap in a double boiler or in the oven (on low heat between the

setting called warm & 200F).

 

Add jewelweed maceration, stir until slightly cooled. Add EO. Stir to

combine. Pour into molds. Cool and let cure until hard and dry.

 

* Jewelweed maceration - gather blooming jewelweed, and combine in a

blender with 1 cup water and 1/2 cup vegetable glycerin. Can be used as

a spray on poison ivy afflicted skin. Can be frozen.

 

Jewelweed can also be used to make CP soap. In that case you'll want to

infuse your main oil being used for the soap making with jewelweed.

 

*Smile*

Chris (list mom)

http://www.alittleolfactory.com

[Guest guest]

Oops, I forgot to mention when making the jewelweed maceration to strain

it before try to use it as a spray .. wouldn't get to far with the

herbal gunk clogging the sprayer (I remember some years back the natural

cosmetics company Jason put out an " Herbal Water " spray and they had all

sorts of stuff like chamomile flowers floating in it - like an

unstrained tea - and it was awful, clogged the sprayer, was yucky .. us

HABA/Natural Living items buyers told them to reformulate that one ASAP

;-p)

 

*Smile*

Chris (list mom)

 

http://www.alittleolfactory.com

 

 

 

 

Christine Ziegler [chrisziggy]

 

 

* Jewelweed maceration - gather blooming jewelweed, and combine in a

blender with 1 cup water and 1/2 cup vegetable glycerin. Can be used as

a spray on poison ivy afflicted skin. Can be frozen.

 

 

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

What a great recipe, Thank you for ahring, Chris

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Jewelweed maceration - gather blooming jewelweed, and combine in a

blender with 1 cup water and 1/2 cup vegetable glycerin. Can be used as

a spray on poison ivy afflicted skin. Can be frozen. >>

 

Just a reminder. The potent part is in the stem, when it comes to PI.

On Garden Island, Keewaydenoqua would take breadbags, turned inside out, fill it

with jewelweed, hang into the sun for a day to draw the juices out. Than she

would have anyone who walked by, take a twist on the bags to twist the juice

out.

The juice would be cut with vinegar for a tincture.

There where people on the island one summer, who had a terrible problem with

athlete's foot.

That tincture, painted on 3 times a day, took care of it.

I just wonder how the pressed juice would do in soap, seems to make it more

potent ?

I am lucky ( knock on wood) I never had PI.

 

C-M

[Guest guest]

Hi C-M

 

I would think the pressed juice would be great in soap!

 

*Smile*

Chris (list mom - LOVING my central A/C right now as the heat index

outside is 117F right now - not a typo - 117F)

 

http://www.alittleolfactory.com

 

 

 

 

Christa Maria [cmaria]

 

What a great recipe, Thank you for ahring, Chris

<<

 

Jewelweed maceration - gather blooming jewelweed, and combine in a

blender with 1 cup water and 1/2 cup vegetable glycerin. Can be used as

a spray on poison ivy afflicted skin. Can be frozen. >>

 

Just a reminder. The potent part is in the stem, when it comes to PI.

On Garden Island, Keewaydenoqua would take breadbags, turned inside out,

fill it with jewelweed, hang into the sun for a day to draw the juices

out. Than she would have anyone who walked by, take a twist on the bags

to twist the juice out.

The juice would be cut with vinegar for a tincture.

There where people on the island one summer, who had a terrible problem

with athlete's foot.

That tincture, painted on 3 times a day, took care of it.

I just wonder how the pressed juice would do in soap, seems to make it

more potent ?

I am lucky ( knock on wood) I never had PI.

 

C-M

 

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

Ohhhh, ew!!! Reminds me of driving the Loop in Chicago with 110+ heat index, in

a car that the a/c had conked out on...took

two days before I felt cool again.

Serra

 

 

Christine Ziegler wrote:

 

>

> Chris (list mom - LOVING my central A/C right now as the heat index

> outside is 117F right now - not a typo - 117F)

>

> http://www.alittleolfactory.com

>

>

>

 

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[Guest guest]

Chris,

Come up to Michigan, my furnace went on last night..

C-M

[Guest guest]

C-M,

I lived in the UP of Michigan so I know about the furnace in July. Skeeters the

size of a jet. And oh how I loved those black flies. I still have scars on my

legs. Speaking of which, has anyone tried Bite Blocker for Pets? They are at

HOMS.com. Not the usual ingredients for a natural bug spray. Safe?

Kat

 

 

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Chris,

Come up to Michigan, my furnace went on last night..

C-M