Lavender oil

How to Use It

Witchcraft & Folk Magick

• Peace: add drops to a diffuser or a bowl of warm water in a tense room, or dress a blue candle for calm in the home.
• Love: lavender is used in love sachets and to anoint a pink candle for affectionate love and loyalty.
• Dreams: put a drop on the pillow for restful sleep and gentle dreams.

Hoodoo & Rootwork

• Cleansing: add to a bath or floor wash to clear tension and bring peace.
• Love dressing: lavender is used in conjure love and peace formulas.

Ceremonial & Occult Magick

• Mercury work: lavender is given to Mercury and Air, used to dress candles for study, communication and clear thinking on Wednesdays.

A Simple Working

• On a Wednesday evening, fill a bowl with warm water.
• Add five drops of lavender oil and a pinch of sea salt.
• Light a blue chime candle dressed with the oil beside the bowl.
• Dip a cloth in the water and wipe the bedroom doorframe, saying, “Peace in this room.”
• Put a drop of oil on your pillowcase.
• Let the candle burn out and pour the water at the front door.

Pairs Well With

• Dried lavender: for sleep sachets and love bags.
• A blue chime candle: for peace and calm.
• Chamomile oil: for a gentler, sleepier blend.
• Rose petals: for lavender love baths.

What You Receive

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

Origin & Lore

Lavender (Lavandula) is a Mediterranean shrub grown for its scented flowers. Its name is commonly traced to the Latin lavare, “to wash”, and it was long used to scent baths and laundry; dried lavender was tucked in linen presses and drawers.

“Lavender’s blue, dilly dilly, lavender’s green”: an English song that began as a seventeenth-century love ballad.

In Tudor England, laundry was spread over lavender bushes to dry and absorb the scent. The “Lavender’s Blue” rhyme appears in a broadside ballad of the late 1600s, “Diddle Diddle, or The Kind Country Lovers”.