DIY poison ivy relief
- Thread starter giles
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Looks very close! The type that grows here at my place has purple every place it branches. I can’t see that in your pic and it looks small. Could just be how it grows in your area. Same leaf and flower.
There's 3 of them growing around my wood pile. I was going to nuke them glad u posted
I’ve just introduced you to something that’ll make you not mind it at all. Feel the itch and the bumps? Just apply and forget about it.
Big_Holla
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Well I can attest to how well jewell weed works on poison ivy. We were down over the weekend and I was knee deep in poison ivy working on the one shack. Sure enough by Sunday I had several itchy spots all over both forearms so I grabbed a couple handfuls of jewell weed, crushed it up and rubbed it like crazy over the areas. Today I only have a couple spots in places I didn't rub it over and they are minor so far. The other spots either you cannot even tell they were bumps or in some spots they are healed over already. I'll be damned.... 
I am glad I was able to help! The stuff is amazing and is really great for kids. Not much worse than a sick or itchy kid.
Big_Holla
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I only wish I brought a bag of it home. Could just see the look on the Ohio State Patrol's face if I had gotten pulled over with it LOL! Seriously...it's for poison ivy!
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I was pulling some stands this weekend. The last one had been up two rears and had about a dozen leafed out poison oak vines around it. I was up in the tree on a linesman rope pulling it off barehanded. On the way out i grabbed a bunch of jewel weed. I took it in the shower with me and after washing up i balled it up and rubbed it all over my arms, face, and chest like a washcloth. The juice that tan out was like a dark orange. I've never been very allergic to poison ivy or oak but i do get a tiny spot or two each year. My concern was that i was sweeting like a pig and wiping my face with my shirt that had been covered in vines and leaves. Three days later and i don't have a single spot.
Years ago I showed my daughters the spring loaded seed pods.
They would collect em and then
Play/pop em on the porch.
Now they come up in my landscaping every year...
They would collect em and then
Play/pop em on the porch.
Now they come up in my landscaping every year...
We have been using this for years. My wife collects jewelweed and makes salve so we have it all year long, and she also makes soap with it. The salve is also good to put on prior to going out if you think you could be exposed to poison ivy, it is supposed to prevent you from getting it. Make sure if you are collecting it to get the one with red blossoms, the jewelweed with yellow blossoms are not supposed to be nearly as potent as the red blossom plant.
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Jewelweed salve
Chopped jewelweed - stems, leaves and flowers - 1 to 2 cups
3.5 oz olive oil
2.6 oz coconut oil
2.6 oz shea butter
.8 oz cocoa butter
1 oz beeswax
Put the jewelweed into the olive oil - and steep it for 12 to 24 hours. A crockpot on low works great.
Strain all plant material out of the olive oil.
Combine coconut oil, shea butter, cocoa butter and beeswax in a double boiler and melt over low heat.
Once combined, let cool a few minutes and then add the jewelweed infused olive oil.
This recipe will make two or three small jars.
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Jewelweed salve
Chopped jewelweed - stems, leaves and flowers - 1 to 2 cups
3.5 oz olive oil
2.6 oz coconut oil
2.6 oz shea butter
.8 oz cocoa butter
1 oz beeswax
Put the jewelweed into the olive oil - and steep it for 12 to 24 hours. A crockpot on low works great.
Strain all plant material out of the olive oil.
Combine coconut oil, shea butter, cocoa butter and beeswax in a double boiler and melt over low heat.
Once combined, let cool a few minutes and then add the jewelweed infused olive oil.
This recipe will make two or three small jars.
The internet is full of different options like Denny listed. You can add scents and everything else to the mixture. This plant really is one that is very overlooked.
Here is another option if you know you were in poison ivy. As soon as you can get in the shower and use Dawn Dish Soap, scrub the areas aggressively, dry off and don't use the wash cloth or towel until you wash them. The Dawn Dish soap cuts the oils from the poison ivy. It works, I have used it when I did not have silver weed.
I believe the key to using this method is more so in the drying part rather than the soap. Getting the oil off requires a "hard dry". Drying off aggressively with a towel and then catching said towel on fire. I'd also recommend showering in cold water instead of hot water as to not open skin pores. If you get into to ivy or oak heavily, I wouldn't put the towel in the wash. Might just be me, but I get that shit by looking at it.