Para Todo (All Purpose) tin candle

How to Use It

Witchcraft & Folk Magick

• Household upkeep: burn the candle for an hour on the first of each month for general blessing on money, health and love in the home.
• Petition pile: write several short wishes on one paper, fold it and keep it under the tin while it burns.
• Lime cleansing: set a lime cut in a cross with salt in the cut beside the tin to absorb bad influences, then discard it when the candle is spent.

Folk Catholicism & Spiritism

• Lit before a favourite saint with a short prayer for the family’s needs, the way many Latin American homes keep a candle going on the home altar.

A Simple Working

• Cut a lime crosswise without slicing it fully through.
• Pack a pinch of sea salt into the cut and set it on a saucer beside the candle.
• Write three wishes, one for money, one for love and one for protection, on a single paper.
• Fold the paper and put it under the tin.
• Light the candle and read the wishes aloud.
• Burn for an hour a day until it is spent, then throw the lime away outside.

Pairs Well With

• Fresh limes: for the cut-lime cleansing used beside the candle.
• Sea salt: to pack into the lime and dress the altar.
• Florida water: for a general cleansing before lighting.
• A white chime candle: for a short follow-up burn on blessing days.

What You Receive

One lime-scented Para Todo candle with crystal chips, poured in a tin with a lid, 120 g.

Origin & Lore

Para Todo, for everything, is a long-running general-purpose name in Latin American spiritual supplies, used on candles, baths and oils meant to cover good fortune, prosperity, love and protection at once. It is the candle people keep burning on a home altar as everyday spiritual upkeep rather than for a single crisis.

Botánica shelves are full of candles for one thing only. Para Todo is the exception, the one you light when you need a bit of everything to go right.

Citrus has a strong place in Latin American home cleansing: limes and lemons are cut, salted and set under beds or in corners to soak up envy and bad energy, then thrown away, and they are rubbed over the body in limpias. An all-purpose candle like this one follows the botánica habit of covering the everyday needs of a household in a single light.