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My wildcrafter buddy and I pick a LOT of this plant. We were unable to fill all of our orders for it this year. Soap crafters use this to make jewelweed soap that is used for poison ivy relief. It has become a very popular soap. I have known the price of dried jewelweed to go for 45 dollars a pound.
You can make your own soap, its a simple recipe that I am glad to share with winners of my auctions, or you can grow it to sell to soap makers. Better yet, grow it to attract hummingbirds. They will gravitate to this plant above all others when it is blooming.
This plant makes small capsules that "pop" at the least amount of disturbance and will throw their seed a considerable distance. Collecting the seed is a real challange and each pod only has four or more seeds each. These seed were harvested from our personal stash in the Appalachian Mountains grown wild.
Our last order for this plant was for 100 lbs. Commercial soapmakers have a difficult time obtaining it and are begging for it as well as the small time soap crafters.
The Native Americans used this plant fresh to help relieve the stinging, spread and itch from poison ivy, poison nettle, a variety of rashes, insect bites, etc.
A must for every medicine cabinet.
I also have some of our soap made with this up for auction now. Check it out.

this auction is for thirty very difficultly obtained seed.
Questions & Comments
Original
Would you swap some Jewelweed seeds for some comfry root?
Dec 31st, 2012 at 6:13:15 PM PST by
Original
Have written you thru your message page
Dec 31st, 2012 at 6:26:59 PM PST by
Original
why don't you make soap from scratch using lye and fats/oils? I do and it isn't very hard. I make glycerin soap as well and it lathers up nicely but I was just wondering. Also, if you go to candlwic.com you can buy glycerin soap way cheaper than where you are buying it now based on the package in your third picture. You can also get different types of glycerin soaps including oatmeal, honey, goats milk, aloe, coconut, shea butter, etc. Thought you might be interested.
Jan 1st, 2013 at 4:08:35 PM PST by
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I use lye soap for chiggers, lol. When I make jewelweed soap, I make it pretty strong and I do love how it works with glycerin soap. I do appreciate your info on candlwic, am gonna check it out. I wasn't worried about the cost as I was just making a supply that would last me a lifetime, and then everyone began coming over and pilfering it. I wasn't doing it for the money, but just for my own personal use.
Jan 1st, 2013 at 5:15:42 PM PST by
Original
f/w. Very pretty little flowers.
Jan 2nd, 2013 at 2:06:33 PM PST by
Original
aren't they though? the hummingbirds just love them, they swarm around me like a hive of bees while I'm trying to collect the seed. One of my favorite plants.
Jan 2nd, 2013 at 3:08:39 PM PST by

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