Although the natural/organic homemade bath and home products craze is decidedly mainstream at this point, we pagans have been attracted to natural living for decades.

It makes sense, of course.  Most of us have a lot of experience with the key ingredients.  Herbs, essential oils, natural waxes, resins and organic bases are things common to the practice of witchcraft.

The high value placed on living close to the earth naturally makes us inclined to make good use of these skills in the mundane world as well as the magical.

While many bloggers have covered the subject of homemade beauty products at length, none that I know of have approached them from the spiritual perspective of a witch.  To fill this gap, I decided to give you a review of the most common recipes along with some suggestions about how to use them in a ritual context.

I reviewed them based on…