Peaceful Home oil
Price range: $3.25 through $80.25
A condition oil for a calm household · Available in 4 sizes
A condition oil for calming a quarrelling household, dressed on blue candles, doorways and floor washes.
Quick Uses
- Candle dressing: dress a pale blue candle from the middle outward and burn it in the room where most arguments happen.
- Floor wash: add a capful to a bucket of floor wash and scrub from the back of the house toward the front door.
- Wiping: add a few drops to salted water and wipe down door handles and window sills.
- Dinner table: touch a drop to the underside of each chair at the table so the household sits down in peace.
How to Use It
Witchcraft & Folk Magick
- Dress a pale blue candle from the middle outward and burn it in the room where most arguments happen.
- Add a few drops to a bowl of water with a handful of salt and wipe down door handles and window sills.
- Anoint the corners of family photographs before placing them together on a shelf or altar.
Hoodoo & Rootwork
- Add a capful to a bucket of floor wash and scrub from the back of the house toward the front door.
- Dress a blue seven-day candle and set it on a saucer with lavender and chamomile scattered around the base.
- Touch a drop to the underside of each chair at the dinner table so the household sits down in peace.
A Simple Working
- Write the names of everyone in the household on a square of parchment, in a circle so no name stands above another.
- Dress a blue chime candle with Peaceful Home oil, stroking from the centre to each end.
- Set the candle on the parchment in a safe holder in the heart of the home.
- Light it and speak aloud what a calm evening in this house looks and sounds like.
- Let the candle burn down completely.
- Fold the parchment toward you, anoint the fold with one more drop, and tuck it above a doorframe or under the main rug.
Pairs Well With
- Lavender, a classic in hoodoo peace and love work and gentle in the house.
- Chamomile, long used in floor washes to calm a home and draw good fortune.
- Blue candles, the usual colour for peace and quiet in conjure work.
- Rose quartz, set on a family altar as a steady reminder of affection.
- Tranquility oil, for a softer, inward-turning version of the same working.
What You Receive
Peaceful Home oil, available in 2 dram, 4 dram, 1 oz and 16 oz bottles.
Origin & Lore
Peaceful Home belongs to the family of named condition oils that grew out of African American hoodoo and were bottled for sale by spiritual-supply houses in the early 20th century. Its purpose is domestic: to settle tempers, cool arguments and keep the home a place people want to come back to.
In the old Southern conjure, a house that fights is treated like a house that is sick: the cure goes on the doorframes, the floors and the candle, not just the people.
Condition oils like Peaceful Home were sold alongside powders, sachets and bath crystals by mail-order spiritual suppliers in Chicago, New Orleans and New York from the 1920s onward. Many of their names describe the condition the user wants to bring about, and household peace was always one of the most requested.
Did You Know?
In parts of the American South, porch ceilings were traditionally painted pale “haint blue” to keep restless spirits from crossing into the house.
| Weight | N/A |
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| Size | 2 dram, 4 dram, 1 oz, 16 oz |
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