Step into the fantastically fragrant world of magical oils and discover a new, invigorating way to delight your senses, uplift your spirits, improve your health, and enjoy total relaxation. Whether your intention is magical or medicinal, specially blended essential oils can enrich your life with their mystical, energizing, and transformative power.
Within this one-of-a-kind portable apothecary, learn to select and mix 67 essential oils for a myriad of magical, medicinal, and spiritual applications. Spanning every purpose from inner calm and romance to healing and energy work to prayer and spellcraft, all 1,200 recipes are arranged alphabetically to make it easy to find precisely what you need.
Step by step, Celeste Rayne Heldstab also shows how to create your own blends for spells, rituals, and remedies. Amp up their potency with correspondences for the elements, day of the week, time of day, Moon phase, astrological sign, herbs, and gemstones.
- Protection for house & home
- Love & passion
- Career & finances
- Dreamwork & meditation
- Beauty & skin care
- Fatigue, headaches, & other common ailments
Praise:
“Celeste skillfully demystifies the process of using and blending oils by providing lucid, detailed, and easy-to-read instructions while emphasizing the magical power inherent in plants.”―Judika Illes, author of The Encyclopedia of 5,000 Spells
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MJtheCrone –
I am having a blast going out and tracking down some of the harder oils from this book, and every night since I’ve had it I’ve made a new one to try out. I found the section on the magical correspondences to carrier oils super helpful as well.
Never would I have imagined myself tracking down Ambergris dealers, buying oils from plants that only grow on specific islands, or eagerly waiting for opium fragrance to arrive in the mail. Some people might balk at that, but collecting all of these rare oils has been incredibly fun for me.
If I have any complaint, it’s that sometimes it’s not really clear what an ingredient is actually referring to. Like “Squill”, is that essential oil? Extract? Does it mean Squilla? Am I supposed to just squeeze a Squill plant out? But solving those riddles is all part of the fun.
Kindle Customer –
One of my top books for my apothecary and oil blends. I bought several other books but none of those come close the the information in this book. No comparison.
LHAYWARD –
When I first read this book, I gave a negative review because I did not understand how to measure using parts as a standard reference. I have since learned that’s what the author told us to do at the beginning of the book. I understand how to use this book now and I am changing my review. I love this book and find it very helpful. Its awesome! If I had read Part 1 and had I educated myself furthur in the beginning I would have understood how to use this book. I apologize to the author for my initial review. You put a lot of hard work into this book. Thank you! It is truly worth every $ and is a great resource. It opened up a whole new world showing me how to make magical oils.
T A GIBB –
estas todos los que me faltaba me encanta y 100% perfectooo
estan todos los tipos de aceite es muy bueno
Sam –
I did several of them. Pleasant scent for the house
LHAYWARD –
I’m a newbie to essential oils and was looking for the deluxe book…this isn’t the ultimate for THERAPEUTIC essential oil use. This book is mainly for magical oils, useful for perfumes, and some helpful essential oil information thrown in later. The third section “All About Oils” is most useful to me so far. It features a good amount of information about common, popular essential oils and carrier oils. There is also an appendix with magical/spiritual herbal correspondences listed, which includes love, prosperity, protection, health etc.; planetary correspondences, astrological, and the language of flowers.
This is a good book, but I don’t think I can recommend it for a beginner unless you intend to mainly make magical oils and perfumes. Even though it’s listed to include therapeutic health & beauty recipes, I couldn’t help but gloss over that chapter because there are 1200 recipes, all magical as I had interpreted it. The third section is where therapeutic uses are included; it was a little confusing finding where they were because I had expected them to be listed among the main recipes. It’s kind of overwhelming to find something that stands out, as all recipes have a brief description. I’ll have to look elsewhere for an all-purpose essential oil book. I am dabbling in perfumes and interested in magical oils, so this book will not go to waste by any means, but I’m disappointed I didn’t read further about its contents before spending $15 on a limited-use book. It’s not exactly what I was looking for, it’s not all what I expected, but I do believe it to be filled with useful information. I believe the rating I’m giving for the actual book to be fair and not completely basing my opinion of it on my expectations.
Bluebird24 –
I did several of them. Pleasant scent for the house
kumaran c –
This book is beautiful
Sam –
This book has helped me in my work. I’ve crafted several oils that have been powerful and effective. It has helped me grow in my practice. I have read some negative commentary that I do not think is fair. While I respect the use of essential oils for the purist with a bottomless budget, I do agree with the author’s assertion that one’s intention is what makes magick effective. Why else would practitioners assert that one can use one’s finger verses an athame? I cannot say the use of fragrance oils verses essential oils has not entered my mind. I have debated this but it is also the scent that places you in a state of mind to perform magick. Have you ever opened a bottle of chamomile essential oil? I actually gagged upon opening the “Now” brand of chamomile oil and felt that the foul odor would not be benificial in my workings. I appreciate this book and I think that both types of oils have a place and Ms. Heldstab’s book certainly has a place on my bookshelf.
Yamamushi –
When I first read this book, I gave a negative review because I did not understand how to measure using parts as a standard reference. I have since learned that’s what the author told us to do at the beginning of the book. I understand how to use this book now and I am changing my review. I love this book and find it very helpful. Its awesome! If I had read Part 1 and had I educated myself furthur in the beginning I would have understood how to use this book. I apologize to the author for my initial review. You put a lot of hard work into this book. Thank you! It is truly worth every $ and is a great resource. It opened up a whole new world showing me how to make magical oils.
Colibri –
Easy to read
Kindle Customer –
I am absolutely in love with this book. It contains numerous oil recipes! I feel a strong connection to it and believe it will benefit me greatly.
Yamamushi –
This book is HUGE, first of all. It contains literally ANY oil combination you could ever need! I was so surprised at the thought and detail put into this book. It also has a list near the back of flowers and their meanings, plus a quick reference for oils that go with each category of spell such as protection, love, money, etc. This is my go-to book for magick now! 😀
Carla Walker –
its worth, can buy for reference. but many formulations are with perfumes
Enchantress –
I have to say this book surprised me. I give it four stars for the compilation of all the oils, I don’t have to look around for recipes because there in one place now. Two types of oils I know appear twice so I took off a star but then added another for the info on oils in the back of the book. Not only did this book give lots of recipes but it gave info that inspired me to create my own oils, oils I couldn’t find in this book. I love when a book can inspire me, my creativity. There are several oils on basics like Health, Money, Love, Banishing, etc. but what really surprised me were the oils on Chakra balancing and the addition of carrier/base oils and there magickal properties as well. All in all I do love this book and will definitely refer back to it. Lots of info I didn’t know but searched for and now I have it. Thanks for a book I really needed.
Sarah –
I’m a newbie to essential oils and was looking for the deluxe book…this isn’t the ultimate for THERAPEUTIC essential oil use. This book is mainly for magical oils, useful for perfumes, and some helpful essential oil information thrown in later. The third section “All About Oils” is most useful to me so far. It features a good amount of information about common, popular essential oils and carrier oils. There is also an appendix with magical/spiritual herbal correspondences listed, which includes love, prosperity, protection, health etc.; planetary correspondences, astrological, and the language of flowers.
This is a good book, but I don’t think I can recommend it for a beginner unless you intend to mainly make magical oils and perfumes. Even though it’s listed to include therapeutic health & beauty recipes, I couldn’t help but gloss over that chapter because there are 1200 recipes, all magical as I had interpreted it. The third section is where therapeutic uses are included; it was a little confusing finding where they were because I had expected them to be listed among the main recipes. It’s kind of overwhelming to find something that stands out, as all recipes have a brief description. I’ll have to look elsewhere for an all-purpose essential oil book. I am dabbling in perfumes and interested in magical oils, so this book will not go to waste by any means, but I’m disappointed I didn’t read further about its contents before spending $15 on a limited-use book. It’s not exactly what I was looking for, it’s not all what I expected, but I do believe it to be filled with useful information. I believe the rating I’m giving for the actual book to be fair and not completely basing my opinion of it on my expectations.
Matal Baker –
I have a large herb garden on my farm and I **love** essential oils, so I borrowed Celeste Rayne Heldstab’s “Llewellyn’s Complete Formulary of Magical Oils: Over 1200 Recipes, Potions & Tinctures for Everyday Use.” After reading it though, I liked it so much that I purchased my own copy.
Heldstab includes so many different oil recipes that there’s one for every occasion! I made the Louisiana VanVan Oil (pg. 178) that calls for Lemongrass herb, but the author doesn’t specify if it should be dried or fresh; I keep both in my home (I cultivate my own lemongrass), so it would have been nice if Heldstab had specified that. Although the author stated that Van Van can be used,
“…to anoint candles, doorways, and amulets for extra power…” (pg. 178),
it would have been nice if she added additional information, such as cultural origins (e.g., Hoodoo) and where the name originated (e.g., “Va, Va” meaning “Go, Go) as well as how it was specifically used. For example, Van Van is used for things like uncrossing and to reverse a person’s bad luck.
Several times Heldstab states that she doesn’t know where a recipe originated and other times she gives important historical information but without citations. I wish that she had provided either footnotes or endnotes for this information. And while she does include a small bibliography, it’s not as heavy as I would like.
Despite these minor issues, this is a nice collection of oil recipes. The measurements (in parts) are extremely easy for anyone to duplicate in their own home.