Almond, Sweet carrier oil

How to Use It

Witchcraft & Folk Magick

• Use as the base for your own anointing oils, steeping dried herbs or adding drops of essential oil.
• Blend with rose petals or lavender for a home-made love or calming oil.

Hoodoo & Rootwork

• Make your own condition oils by dropping a root or herb, such as a piece of High John or a pinch of cinnamon, into a small bottle of almond oil.
• Use as a base for the oils you dress candles and mojo bags with.

Ceremonial & Occult Magick

• Use as the carrier for a home-made Abramelin or planetary oil.
• Anoint tools and talismans with a consecrated base oil you make once and keep.

A Simple Working

• Choose a dried herb or root that fits your intention, such as rose for love or cinnamon for money.
• Place a pinch in a clean small bottle.
• Fill the bottle with sweet almond oil.
• Hold the bottle in both hands and speak your intention into it.
• Leave it in a dark cupboard for a lunar cycle, shaking it gently each day.
• Label it and use it to dress your candles and charms.

Pairs Well With

• Dried herbs and roots, for infusing your own oils.
• Essential oils, for scenting your blends.
• Small glass bottles, for storing finished oils.
• A pinch of salt, for blessing a new batch.
• Vitamin E or jojoba, often added to carrier blends to extend their shelf life.

What You Receive

Sweet Almond carrier oil, available in 8 oz and 1 gallon bottles.

Origin & Lore

This is sweet almond carrier oil, extracted from the seeds of the sweet almond, Prunus dulcis. It is a light, lightly scented oil that holds herbs and essential oils well, which makes it the standard base for compounding your own condition oils, perfume oils and ritual blends.

Almost every homemade anointing oil starts the same way: a few drops of herb or essential oil in a light, clean carrier, and sweet almond has been the favourite for generations.

Almond trees were cultivated in the Near East and the Mediterranean from the Bronze Age, and almond oil was pressed and used for perfumes and ointments in the ancient world. The hoodoo tradition of home-made condition oils, a root or herb steeped in a carrier and named for its purpose, depends on simple bases like this one.