I’ve read about it in various forms, and I think I’m going to use it in my Craft. Just wondered if anyone has come across it before.
For example, one of the recipes I saw to make green salt for protecting the home said to grind protection herbs with coarse salt, add a tbs of alcohol to bind the ingredients, add green food colouring to desired shade, then let it dry out and place it in a green pouch in your home.
I love the theory of the idea, and using food colouring widens the colour magick options… I can already picture a row of tiny jars with different coloured salts lol… I’d love to know what you all think!
Snap @little.elf.queen, which is why it caught my eye…why buy them when I can make them? And I can tailor the salt to my needs, instead of relying on the unknown recipes of others.
That’s what I thought @georgia, and then I figured that if I make small amounts specific to my intents, I’m pretty sure I’ll use them! It’s worth a go, right?
Yeah, it’s not a thing I made up lol! I think I saw it on MasterChef Australia ages ago, and it got me thinking, then I just found a recipe in an app I’ve been using and the research started from there.
That’s what I plan to do, and I don’t plan to use alcohol, maybe essential oil. But the food colouring got me thinking; herbs are already green, but what if I’m using herbs for intuition? If I could make them purple, for example, to align with the colour of the amethyst, it would still work, the colours would align, and it would be easier to differentiate between the salts.
There are many natural ways to colour things, for example, I’m sure the juice of a beetroot would work for purple, deep green from cucumber skins, red from concentrated tomatoes…thanks again MasterChef Australia!
I have a coven member that does lots of Crafting and she just sent me a huge sheet with corrospondenses and yes a couple drops of whicher food coloring. But it’s generally just for an aesthetic thing. If you want the natural color she uses a coffee grinder to really get all of the herbs in the salt Blended really well so that it is a natural color. Up to you however you want to do it. He tends to use a lot of parsley in hers in the coffee grinder and it creates it to be that really deep green color
Wasn’t there a blue from cabbage? I know that washing fabric dyed with sumac tea creates woad blue, a color used during the American civil war, but that wouldn’t work with salt. Umm, I think there was something about “joe pye weed” or iron weed creating a shade of blue, too.
Onions make good yellow dye. Of course, most of what I know is dye for cloth, collected from Native American and pioneer crafts.
By the Goddess I love this place! Thank you both @MistyW and @georgia, more fantastic ideas I didn’t know about. Hooray for the coven!
If any of you feel inclined to give this a go, please do post if you don’t mind! K’s off sick so I doubt it’ll happen this week, but I’m looking forward to giving it a try!
Perfect salt shelf! Ooh! I’d like to have several of those for herbs and spell bottles! Hang them on a wall, and the bottles won’t fall off. Save counter space, too.
Mom used to have one when I was growing up. For some reason, they don’t seem to make wall mounts anymore, as though everyone has more counter space than they need in their kitchens- or am I not shopping in the “right” stores?
I haven’t seen any around lately, but I also don’t have enough wall space for anything to hang in my kitchen. I also don’t have much counter space… I have a small kitchen! I’ve thought about finding something that’s hanging and putting it on the inside door of one of my cabinets in such a way that it wouldn’t be in the way, but I’d lose space on the cabinet shelf, too
. But yeah I made one.
I can literally picture a row of those bottles with different salts in them. Well done!!