Eucalyptus oil

How to Use It

Witchcraft & Folk Magick

• Room clearing: add drops to a bowl of hot water or a diffuser after illness, an argument or a difficult visitor.
• Recovery: dress a blue or white candle with the oil and burn it for someone getting back on their feet, spirit first.
• Protection: wipe the frames of windows and doors with water scented with eucalyptus to keep a cleared house clear.

Hoodoo & Rootwork

• Cleansing bath: a few drops in a bath with Epsom salt and a little vinegar are used before uncrossing work.
• Banishing wash: add to a floor wash scrubbed from back to front and out the door.

A Simple Working

• On a Monday during a waning moon, fill a bucket with warm water.
• Add a handful of sea salt and nine drops of eucalyptus oil.
• Starting at the back of the house, wipe down door frames and windowsills.
• In each room say, “What is stale goes out; what is clean stays.”
• Pour the remaining water out the front door and away from the house.
• Light a white chime candle dressed with the oil in the main room.

Pairs Well With

• Sea salt: for cleansing washes.
• A white chime candle: to seal a cleansing.
• Rosemary: adds protection to cleansing work.
• Peppermint oil: for a brighter, sharper clearing blend.

What You Receive

Eucalyptus oil, a scented anointing oil, available in 2 dram, 1 oz and 16 oz.

Origin & Lore

Eucalyptus trees are native to Australia, where Aboriginal peoples have long used the leaves in daily life. In the nineteenth century the trees were planted worldwide, and the scent of their leaves became familiar in steam rooms and household cleaners.

The blue haze that gives Australia’s Blue Mountains their name is often explained as fine droplets of oil rising from the eucalyptus forests below.

Eucalyptus was planted across the Mediterranean, California and India in the nineteenth century, prized for its fast growth. Its scent became so strongly linked with clean air that eucalyptus leaves are still hung in showers so the steam releases them.