Hi nexus. A friend of mine has quite bad acne and it got me thinking that maybe mimosa could help this problem. I did a wee search around and came across mimosa soap and it's advertised as a treatment for acne

Has anyone got any experience with mimosa soap and if it does directly help acne?

Another cool thing i was thinking was (light bulb moment).... the police ask why do you have mimosa and lye?! you must be doing something illegal!! No officer i'm actually making mimosa soap

If this is a good treatment for acne i think it would be great seeing as just about all the pharma medicines for acne are pretty dire. Cheers folks.

If I had acne, I'd totally try this out! After noticing that mimosa dust from grinding shredded rootbark somehow managed to "heal" various mechanical and electromechanical devices, I slapped it on a persistent fungal infection and it vanished. Then I tried it with a cold sore and it was healed over, healthy and felt great by the end of the day. Now I have a little jar of mimosa and cappi tincture that I use as a topical rub and (more often than otherwise) that I can drip onto herbs and smoke.

portulaca oleracea
mash that plant and apply to skin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portulaca_oleracea
it is very effective for this type of thing

Jurema is indeed good for the skin. The product is known as tepezcohuite, which is incidentally one of the names (with náhuatl roots) of Mimosa Tenuiflora/Hostilis in Mexico.

The toasted tree bark of MH had been traditionally used by mayans for treating skin injuries and burns. It shows good antibacterial and regenerative properties, and it has continued to be used in Mexico. I remember reading a note about its hospital use to treat the victims of the 1985 earthquake.

This was mentioned here in the Nexus in this thread.

Of course, nowadays you can easily find "tepezcohuite" products in health & beauty stores. And yep, most often creams and soaps.

Maybe we can extract from those creams

On a serious note. I did some research on making soap out of the basic stuff. If my memory serves me I would have needed quite a lot of oil to recycle all of it which made me never getting around to do it. Everyone should have some of this soap around though. Did anyone here make some? We should have a TEK here.

^^^^^ good idea

tell him to stop having his dog lick his face.