The Enchantment
The Enchantment
A Summer Milk Bath
4 parts powdered milk
1 part dried orange peel
1 part dried lemon peel
1 drop of pure essential lemon oil
1 part dried rose petals
1 part dried marigold flowers
Mix ingredients, wrap in double layered cheese cloth and bind with ribbon. Use the ribbon strings to hang over running bath water.
Use organic oranges and lemons, grind the skin off and place of a piece of wax paper on a baking sheet, and let dry 3 days.
I used rose and marigold right out of my garden, pulled the petals off and pressed them inside a phone directory book for 3 days to dry.
Lemon is a febrifuge, cooling and reducing body temperature
Orange is cooling and purifying. Improves mental clarity
Rose petals are a quintessential summer reminder which in a bath beautifies and renews the feminine spirit
Marigold for is wonderful for people who are in need of some serious re-connection with the joy of life. Instantly compelling, enriching, balances strongly, re-centering, eye opening, seeing the extraordinary in everything
Tagetes (Marigold): "The Enchantment"
There once was a woman who was driven to perfection in all things. She insisted that absolutely everything had to be done just so, every little item, every little detail, all the time and everywhere. She drove her husband and her children crazy, nobody liked her and she had no friends at all because she always criticized everything and everyone, and most of all, herself.
Eventually, her husband couldn't stand it any more. He went to see a witch and asked for spell to make her stop and consider what she was doing with her life. The witch gave him a magic potion but warned him it would last only for a single day and night; but it might do the trick. The magic potion was an enchantment that took all judgments away, and for a single day and a single night, the woman lived in pleasure and excitement - about how amazing her children were, how wondrously blessed she was with material goods and her own good body and mind, and in the night, the blessing of a man who truly loved her and could make her happy in so many different ways.
In the morning, the enchantment was gone but the memories remained - and the woman had learned her lesson and even though it was sometimes difficult to stop the judging, she never went back to her previous ways.
From: Aromatherapy for Your Soul by Dr Silvia Hartmann
A Summer Milk Bath
Mix ingredients, wrap in double layered cheese cloth and bind with ribbon. Use the ribbon strings to hang over running bath water.
Use organic oranges and lemons, grind the skin off and place of a piece of wax paper on a baking sheet, and let dry 3 days.
I used rose and marigold right out of my garden, pulled the petals off and pressed them inside a phone directory book for 3 days to dry.
Tagetes (Marigold): "The Enchantment"
There once was a woman who was driven to perfection in all things. She insisted that absolutely everything had to be done just so, every little item, every little detail, all the time and everywhere. She drove her husband and her children crazy, nobody liked her and she had no friends at all because she always criticized everything and everyone, and most of all, herself.
Eventually, her husband couldn't stand it any more. He went to see a witch and asked for spell to make her stop and consider what she was doing with her life. The witch gave him a magic potion but warned him it would last only for a single day and night; but it might do the trick. The magic potion was an enchantment that took all judgments away, and for a single day and a single night, the woman lived in pleasure and excitement - about how amazing her children were, how wondrously blessed she was with material goods and her own good body and mind, and in the night, the blessing of a man who truly loved her and could make her happy in so many different ways.
In the morning, the enchantment was gone but the memories remained - and the woman had learned her lesson and even though it was sometimes difficult to stop the judging, she never went back to her previous ways.
From: Aromatherapy for Your Soul by Dr Silvia Hartmann