16 New Essential Oils for Custom Blends

In making new oil blends of the month, we've picked up a whole bunch of essential oils and are happy to open these up to our wonderful customers for use in either our 1/2 oz or 4 oz custom blends.  So many lovely scents and powerful enhancing properties! As always, if you need help with a custom blend, just ask.


• Valerian Essential Oil- A warm-woody, balsamic, musky scented oil, it is widely known to encourage rest and ease tension.

• Ho Wood Essential Oil- A bright, warm, slightly woody scented oil with a few floral notes, it is an antibacterial, sedating oil.  Used to relax the scalp and promote a hygienic scalp environment. 

• Patchouli Essential Oil- An oil with a earthy, smoky, spicy, and musky scent, it is an astringent, fungicide, antiseptic and deodorant, promoting a healthy scalp free of irritations and imperfections. 

• Orange (Bitter) Essential Oil- Fresh, dry bitter citrus, with woody undertones make up the scent of this oil. A cholagogue, it promotes healthy oil production from the scalp and helps prevent clogged scalp pores. 

• Litsea Cubeba Essential Oil- A heavy, sweet citrus oil.  The essential oil is extracted from the ripened and dried fruits of the Litsea Cubeba tree. Like most citrus oils, its scent is immediately uplifting and rejuvenating, its astringent prperties help to cleans scalp pores, while its antimicrobial and anti-inflammatory action minimizes and heals existing flare-ups.

• Lemon Balm Essential Oil- A light, fresh, green citrus scent, this oil is calming and uplifting all at once.   is famous particularly for its soothing, memory boosting and antidepressant powers, as well as its antibacterial properties.

• Tumeric Essential Oil- With a fresh, spicy-woody scent, it has a long history as a medicine, spice, and coloring agent. Tumeric has been known to help restore hair loss in those who have lost their hair as a result of  B-vitamin deficiency.

 • Vetiver Essential Oil- An oil with a sweet, heavy, earthy and woody aroma, it is a cicatrisant which speeds up new tissue growth and can speed up the disappearance of scars or other marks from the skin.  An anti-inflammatory, vulenerary, and antiseptic, it promotes scalp health.  Is aroma has long been lauded for being relaxing and soothing.

 • Geranium Essential Oil- A heavy, sweet floral, geranium has always been known as a powerful wound healer and has been used in both medicine and aromatics. It sooths breakouts on the scalp while promoting healthy scalp skin and renewed 
circulation.

 • Basil Essential Oil- A fresh, warm, spicy, herbaceous aroma, basil is a sacred plant in India, and used in ayurvedic medicine. Helps to restore luster to dull-looking skin in hair, it also is used to treat acne and other skin infections. 

 • Cajeput Essential Oil- Strong, slightly sweet, camphoraceous, medicinal smell, it is known for producing a sensatino of warmth, which may aid with hair growth. It can help chronic acne and psorasis. It is commonly used to treat various bacterial and fungal scalp infections, and to moisturise dry hair and scalp. Cajeput Essential Oil is also used as a ‘terp’ in henna to create rich tones for body art and hair. Cajeput creates the sensation of warmth.

• Ravensara Essential Oil- A slightly spicy, camphory, woody herbaceous essential oil with an awakening aroma.  Ravensara is fantastic for healing  bacterial scalp infections and helps clear skin blemishes. 

• Sweet Marjoram Essential Oil- A warm and spicy aroma, with a hint of nutmeg, this is a scalp-soothing oil.  It can also help with headaches and in aiding relaxation.  

• Copaiba Essential Oil- Mild, sweet, woody, slightly balsamic oil, it is often used to invigorate the scalp and heal problem areas. It is a powerful anti-fungal and also helps to reduce headaches and migraines. 

• Lemongrass Essential Oil- A heavy, lemony, green scent, this oil is widely used as an addition to bug repellents, and for its lemony aroma. Citral is known for its antimicrobial effects, and can help kill or suppress the growth of bacteria and fungi. It's said that lemongrass oil's quality is generally determined by its citral content. For those that suffer from hair loss, oily hair, and other scalp conditions, lemongrass oil may be beneficial, as it can help strengthen hair follicles.  

• Mugwort Essential Oil- Mugwort has a herbaceous, camphorous, sage-like scent that was used by shamans in many traditions for invoking dreams. A stimulant, it aids in scalp circulation, increasing blood to hair follicles. 

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Selkie Shipping Starts Next Week!

We made three big batches of Selkie last night.  The entire kitchen smelled divine!  The first batch is also bottled, labeled, and ready to go.  We'll start packing orders on Sunday, and will continue to to filter out the Selkie orders with our day to day packing. 

Keep in mind that orders ship on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday only!

There's one tiiiiiiiiiiiiiny hangup where the earliest orders aren't allowing me to generate shipping labels through Etsy.  Etsy labels are much, much faster for me to process as I talk about here, and I've already contacted Etsy to see what they can do to re-enable labels on these orders.  Worst-case I do them the old way, but it'll be slower.  I'll keep everyone posted :)

New labels arrive!

Selkie

Our Selkie labels are back from the professional printers! Created on oil and water resistant paper, these will hold up to wet hands and drips. We have all of our materials now, too, so look for an update on Selkie production starting soon!

Moondust

Our Moondust jars and samples had gotten updated labels awhile ago, but the refill bags were still out of date.  The new labels bring all aspects of this product together!

NB Avatar Labels

Back here we'd talked about our new shipping labels and how one of the things I missed was having the logo on them.  We've had circular labels created that match the NightBlooming avatar.  Look to find them on your packages and pinning together the tissue paper wrappings that many of our products come in!

Samhain Spell Custom Oil Blend for October

You can see all of the past featured oil blends of the month here!

Pick it up in either our 1/2 ounce or 4 ounce size!

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Samhain, the night when the veil between the worlds is the thinnest, and magick strong. It is a celebration of death and of the dead, and it often involves paying respect to ancestors, family members, elders of the faith, friends, pets and other loved ones who have died. The spirits of the departed are invited to attend this festival of darkness and death.

This oil casts a spell unto itself, fitting for this time of year:

As this Samhain passes from us
soon the drawing will embrace us
and the sunset portal close.
Until the turning of the year
we part for just awhile.
Yet I know there is no ending
and the silver thread spins outward
to that place where you are going
until I travel there to meet you,
or your return upon the autumn,
on this sacred night of Spirits
when we shall meet again,
Blessed Be.


Samhain Spell Hair Oil: An oil full of essential fatty oils that help protect and lock moisture into the hair.

Base Oil: Pumpkin Seed Oil
Secondary Oils: Hemp Seed Oil, Walnut Oil
Essential Oils: Patchouli, Clove, Nutmeg, Petitgrain, Balsam Fir, Sweet Orange

Aroma: The scent of autumn- patchouli and dark forests with touches of spice and sweetness. 

Application: Intended for use on the length of hair. Rub a few drops between your palms to warm and smooth over the ends.

Detailed Ingredients:

• Pumpkin Seed Oil- Pumpkin seeds contain fatty oils with linoleic acid and oleic acid, both known to prevent cancer-causing cell production. They are also an excellent source of vitamins A, B6 and C. In addition, the seeds contain beneficial nutrients like zinc, magnesium, calcium and iron. Perhaps most important to those suffering from hair loss, the seeds contain cucurbitin, a unique amino that may be responsible for pumpkin seeds' effects on hair growth. There is conjecture that when consumed internally pumpkin seed oil it is a DHT blocker and can aid in treating baldness or hair loss, though no clinical study has been done. 

• Hemp seed Oil- Hemp seed oil is made up of 80% essential fatty acid, the highest amount of any other plant. Hemp seed oil prevents moisture loss on a physiological level; it does just not merely "coat" the skin or hair as do other oils. Hemp so closely matches our own skins lipids it is able to penetrate inside our cells and lubricate the surface between. Not only does Hemp seed oil contribute greatly to the barrier function and appearance it also has other skin benefits such as offering relief to acne, minor abrasions, psoriasis and eczema. Hemp is also the only plant oil containing Vitamin D, which is necessary for Calcium absorption, especially useful to vegans. Using Hemp seed oil is a great way to achieve soft, smooth and hydrated skin.

• Walnut Oil- A pale golden oil, it good moisturizing, anti-aging, regenerative, emollient and toning properties. Walnuts are unique among nuts because the essential fat they contain is primarily polyunsaturated (the source of omega-3 fatty acids.) as well as a host of other important vitamins and minerals. Walnut oil is a clear, grease-less, penetrating oil, that is a rich source of fatty acids.

• Patchoili Essential Oil- An Earthy, smoky, spicy, and musky oil, this is well known for it's role of perfumery, it is also a fungicide and cicatrisant, promoting fresh growth and healing. 

• Clove Essential Oil- This warm and spicy oil aids in circulation and is recommended for skin care, especially to acne patients.

• Nutmeg Essential Oil- has a sweet, warm, spicy scent similar to the spice commonly used in cooking. Comforting and soothing, nutmeg helps boost energy. It also supports nervous and endocrine systems and prostaglandin balance.

• Petitgrain (Citrus aurantium) Essential Oil- Made from the leaves and twigs of this amazing tree, it is antiseptic, antispasmodic, a natural deodorant, and nervine. Use in a hair oil will leave hair and scalp fragrant (petitgrain has woody, citrus and floral notes all in one!), while soothing and preventing bacterial and fungal growth. Blends well with lavender, rose, and sandlawood. 

• Balsam Fir Essential Oil- A balsamic, sweet, fresh aroma that is both grounding and elevating. It has anti-bacterial, anti-fungal, antiseptic, and stimulating properties. 

• Sweet Orange Essential Oil- A zesty citrus, sweet, strong aroma, Sweet Orange is cheering, refreshing, uplifting, and comforting. Orange, like all citrus fruits, plays an important role in Chinese medicine.