For the last few months, I have been making many of my own household products: body care and cleaning supplies.
I started with body care. Over the last few months, I have slowly expanded my creative endeavors in this area. I now make body wash, shampoo, body butter, and hand soap. Everything is made from natural ingredients.
Anything soapy is made with castile soap as a main ingredient, a concentrated soap made entirely from vegetables and other plants. The body wash is made with honey, the shampoo with coconut milk instead of water, and the hand soap is diluted castile soap with a touch of olive oil. I add a little olive oil to the body wash as well for moisture.
The shampoo has lavender and rosemary essential oils, both very beneficial for hair and scalp, but the other products have none.
The body butter has taken some experimentation. It contains shea butter with possible mango or cocoa butter added in. Then it also has oil, for which I've been using fractionated coconut oil, and arrowroot powder to counteract some of the greasiness. Shea butter is incredibly greasy, so the first two times I made body butter with entirely shea butter, it was very greasy.
However, I recently purchased mango butter, which is supposed to make the body butter softer. Let me tell you, it's very, very soft! To the point that it can be difficult to get some out of the container! It feels very oily and kinda gross, but when you rub it in, it soaks in a hundred times better. I'm in love with the new mix of half shea butter and half mango butter.
I've also been making cleaning products, slowly adding more of them. I have plans for expanding my natural cleaning products, but at the moment I only make all-purpose cleaners. I make both the castille soap and vinegar versions.
Floor cleaner recipes I've found have nearly the same mix of ingredients as the all-purpose cleaners, so with my homemade cotton Swiffer covers—reusable after a good washing—I plan to just spritz the floor well and mop with the Swiffer. I used to get down on the floor and wash with cleaning wipes, but with my health conditions, I can no longer clean the floors that way. So, I made the reusable covers and will be mopping instead.
I don't plan to change my dish soap because I adore the blue Dawn dish soap, but I've begun to use reusable dishcloths instead of sponges. Right now, I have three, but I plan to make more. One was a gift and the other two I made. I'm loving them.
Operating a more natural home as I make my bath and household products has allowed me to spread my intention and manifestation throughout the home. As I make them, I infuse them with my desires for myself or the house. Then, whenever I use the item, I spread that intention. It's a fantastic way to do cottage witchcraft.
I'm doing this so much and so consistently, several people have called it a hobby. It's much more than that, though I greatly enjoy it.
That's the purpose of witchcraft, right? To make the mundane magickal.
Blessings on you and your home.
Blessed be.
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