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Cleopatra Milk Bath
A floral milk bath is a favorite skin-softening method popular since the days of early Egypt. Rich in protein, milk softens the skin with its emollient butterfat.
Ingredients
1 cup Milk (whole or powdered)
7 drops of Rose absolute
Fresh Rose petals
Cinnamon or Rose scented candle
Directions
Pour milk into warm bath and add several drops (about 7 or so) of rose absolute. Sprinkle with fresh rose petals. Light your candle. Use a cinnamon candle if you are wanting to heat up your sex life and rose if you are wanting to be showered with love. Relax for as long as you please.
Sea salts are essential to your at-home Voodoo Hoodoo magickal spa kit as they exfoliate dead skin cells and stimulate circulation. They open your clogged pores to accept their minerals leaving you toned, tightened, and radiant.
Ingredients
2 cups sea salt
2 tablespoons dried chopped orange peel
7 drops essential oil of orange
3 drops essential oil of lilac blossoms
4 drops of honeysuckle essential oil
White or blue candle
Directions
Mix ingredients together. Light your white candle before bathing and thank Yemaya for the healing gifts of the sea. During bath or shower, gently rub sea salts over the skin.
Ingredients
1 cup sweet almond oil (light olive or sesame oil may be substituted)
1/2 cup honey
1/2 cup floral liquid soap
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
Cinnamon essential oil
Yellow candle
Directions
Pour oil into a medium bowl, then carefully stir in remaining ingredients until mixture is fully blended. Pour into a clean plastic bottle with a tight-fitting stopper or lid. Shake gently before using. Pour 1/4 into warm bath. Burn a yellow candle when bathing to enhance the magickal properties of this bath treatment.
Ingredients
1/2 cup of pure coconut oil
Pear essential oil
White candle
Directions
Microwave coconut oil uncovered for 30 seconds. For stovetop: place the tub inside large pan with water and heat on low until liquefied. Add 8 drops of pear essential oil. Stir, re-cap and place in the refrigerator for 15 minutes. Light your white candle and become still. Generously apply all over body (but not face) and allow to soak in your skin. Then, cover up with old sweats and socks so the oil doesn't stain your clothes that matter.
Oya Hydrating Body Balm
The creamy goodness of this rich balm will leave skin velvety smooth. Plums are high in calcium, magnesium and vitamins A and C.
Ingredients
1/4 cup ripe plums (peeled and pitted)
1 tablespoon grapeseed oil
3 tablespoons spring water
Purple plum scented candle
Directions
Blend ingredients until smooth. Bottle and refrigerate. Apply to face and body in shower or tub. Light the purple plum scented candle when using to enhance the magickal qualities of this recipe.
Lightening animation courtesy of Sebastien D'ARCO, 2006.
Legba's Pore Opening Body Polish
Papa Legba is the door opener and remover of obstacles. Here is a recipe inspired by his characteristics to help open up your pores and clear out the hidden debris, allowing your skin to breathe and feel fresh and alive.
Ingredients
1 1/2 tablespoons white cornmeal
2 tablespoons plain yogurt
Directions
In the palm of your hand, mix together all the ingredients until you have a grainy liquid. Apply to face, massaging lightly with balls of your fingers. Rinse well.
Swamp Witch Healing Moisture Body Wrap
The Swamp Witch is the one who knows the magick and the medicine found within her little sisters who are the healing plants and herbs of the forest. She knows the power of the water. Through her, the roots, plants, herbs, and flowers of the swamp communicate to the voodooist.
Ingredients
1 very ripe avocado
1 cup of heavy cream
1/4 cup of aloe vera gel
Cedar essential oil
Sage essential oil
Lots of towels
Plastic wrap
Green candle
Directions
Blend avocado pulp, cream and aloe vera gel to a thick paste. Add a few drops of sage and cedar essential oils. Place lots of old towels down where you will nap later. Light your green candle and meditate for a moment on the healing properties of the little Apply paste to body. Wash hands and loosely wrap over masked areas. Lay down and relax for one hour. Rinse.
All-Purpose Voodoo.licious Body Scrub
The salt in this recipe is designed to polish your skin, increase blood circulation and stimulate lymph production to eliminate toxins, all while naturally triggering the skin's own oil secretion. Apricot kernel oil, rich in natural emollients and vitamins A and B heal damaged skin, leaving your skin moisturized and smooth.
Ingredients
2 cups coarse sea salt
1/4 cup apricot kernel
body scrub tool or loofah
Directions
Make a paste out of the sea salt and apricot kernel in a bowl. While standing in the tub or shower, scrub your body in a smooth, circular motion. Apply in a firm but nonabrasive pressure, so that you affect the surface of the skin, not the underlying tissues. Gently rise off.
Essential oils poured in the bath is one of the finest ways to enjoy their therapeutic benefits. Add your favorite oil to a lighter oil (such as sunflower or safflower) to help to disperse it throughout the water and onto to your body.
Ingredients
Your favorite essential oil
A light carrier oil such as safflower
Directions
Add two teaspoons of oil to your water as you draw your bath.
La Sirene Seaweed Facial Mask
La Sirene is a loa, often seen as a mermaid, a watery mistress of the sea whose songs often lead men to marriage and distraction. She is known to grant gifts of extreme wealth and luck. La Sirene is especially honored in New Orleans Voodoo and when petitioned in that city, she is offered shrimp, seaweed, and seawater. In return, she blesses her followers with gifts of music and song. Seaweeds are rich in nutrients and mineral salts and have been traditionally used to detoxify the body both internally and externally. This mask will help your skin hold moisture and smooth fine lines.
Ingredients
2 tablespoons of seaweed or kelp powder
1 tablespoon of aloe vera
1 tablespoon of raw honey
Directions
Mix all of the ingredients in a bowl to make a paste. Use twice a week for healthy, glowing skin.
La Sirene Exfoliating Body Cleanser
Ingredients
1 tablespoon of beach sand
2 bars of glycerin soap
1 teaspoon of olive oil
1/4 cup of water
Citrus essential oil
Directions
Mix glycerin soap and water in a saucepan. Heat over a low flame until melted. Add olive oil and sand to the mixture. You can also add a teaspoon of a favorite essential oil for scent now, too. Stir and remove from heat. Add a few drops of essential oil (like lemon or tangerine). When the mixture becomes cool and starts to solidify, mold it with your hands into soap balls and let harden on wax paper, or pour into a container (the cut-out bottom of a milk carton works great). Great for feet, elbows and knees but not intended for your face!
OM BathIngredients
Muslin bag or cheesecloth
1/2 cup oatmeal
1/2 cup powdered milk
1 teaspoon apricot kernal oil
Directions
Grind the oatmeal in a blender or food processor until fine. Mix together oatmeal and powdered milk. Add apricot oil and mix thoroughly. Place the mixture inside a muslin bag, or wrap and tie in cheesecloth. Throw into the running water of a hot bath tub. When you are in the tub, sponge your body with the bag for extra softening. Tip: A few drops of essential oil of lavender make a great addition to this recipe.
Ingredients
1/2 cup brown sugar
2 heaping tablespoons almond oil
few drops of honey
3 to 5 drops of cinnamon or orange essential oil
Directions
Combine ingredients thoroughly in a glass bowl. In the shower, gently scrub all over body.
Ingredients
1 cup arrowroot powder or cornstarch
1 tablespoon kaolin (white clay)
1 tablespoon baking soda
3 to 5 drops of sandalwood or frankincense essential oil
Directions
Combine the dry ingredients in a bowl. Add essential oil and mix. Allow to sit for a couple hours for oil to absorb. Store in an air-tight container for up to one year.
Voodoo.licious Valentine Hot Chocolate Scrub
Ingredients
1/2 cup raw sugar
2 to 3 tablespoons almond oil
1 tablespoon cocoa
1/2 tablespoon cinnamon powder
Raspberry fragrance oil
Dark chocolate fragrance oil
Directions
Mix ingredients thoroughly in a glass bowl. Start with just a few drops of the fragrance oils until you get the aroma you want. In the shower, gently rub all over body while you thinking loving, sweet thoughts!
Ingredients
1/2 cup powered whole milk
1/2 cup dried hibiscus or rose petals
3 to 5 drops rose essential oil
heat sealable tea bags
Directions
Mix the milk and essential oil together until evenly distributed. Gently mix in the dried petals. Put a few spoonfuls of the mixture in a large, sealable teabag and seal bags with an iron. Makes about 4 tub teas.
Voodoo.licious Aztec Body Scrub
Ingredients
1/2 cup raw sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup olive oil
1/4 cup powered cocoa
a few drops of chocolate and cinnamon fragranced oil
Directions
Combine ingredients in a bowl. Use whenever cravings hit by massaging into skin and rinsing with warm water in the shower. Store in an airtight container up to six months.
Ingredients
1 cup Epsom or Dead Sea Salts
5 to 7 drops of pear essential oil
1/4 cup loose white leaf tea
4 muslin bags
Directions
Mix the salts and essential oil together until evenly distributed. Gently mix in the loose tea leaves. Place a few heaping spoonfuls of the mixture into the muslin bags. Makes about 4 tub teas.
La Sirene Champagne Bubble Bath
1/4 cup foaming concentrate
3/4 cup distilled water
1/2 tsp. pink Himalayan Sea salt
1 tablespoon glycerin
1/4 tsp. Champagne
white wine fragrance oil
Heat water (not boiling just hot), stir in concentrate, champagne, and glycerin until completely dissolved. Add fragrance oil and stir well. Add sea salt stirring until dissolved. Allow mixture to cool. If it is not as thick as you would like add another 1/4 tsp. salt stirring until dissolved. Pour into a clean jar and seal bottle. Use 2 capfuls under running water in a warm bath.
