Lavender essences oil

How to Use It

Witchcraft & Folk Magick

• Anoint a blue or lavender candle before meditation or a period of quiet retreat.
• Add a few drops to a bath with a handful of salt to wash off a tense day.
• Dab the pillowcase for a calm night.

Hoodoo & Rootwork

• Add to a floor wash for peace in a household that has been quarrelling.
• Dress a pink candle to draw a gentle, faithful kind of love rather than a stormy one.

A Simple Working

• Run a warm bath and add a handful of sea salt.
• Stir in a few drops of the oil with your hand, moving clockwise.
• Light a blue candle dressed with the same oil.
• Soak for a while and let each worry go with the out-breath.
• Dry off without rinsing so the scent stays on your skin.
• Let the candle burn out while you rest.

Pairs Well With

• Lavender buds, for baths and sachets alongside the oil.
• Blue candles, the usual colour for peace work.
• Chamomile, a calming herb for the same bath.
• Amethyst, kept on the altar for meditation.
• Rose petals, to turn a peace working toward love.

What You Receive

Lavender perfume oil, in a 1/2 oz bottle, blended in cosmetic-grade oils.

Origin & Lore

Lavender is a shrubby member of the mint family that grows wild around the western Mediterranean. It was used to scent baths and laundry from Roman times on, and folk magick took it up as a herb of peace, gentle love and protection. This oil carries it for calm, meditation and clear-headed solitude.

Lavender has scented European linen chests, washing water and strewn floors for so long that its smell is, for many people, simply the smell of a clean and quiet house.

In medieval and early modern Europe lavender was strewn on floors, tucked into linen and grown in monastery gardens. Hoodoo practitioners use it in love and peace work, and in English folk custom sprigs of lavender were laid among clothes and bedding to keep them sweet.