Merry meet all,

I created or should I say, conjured? the Practical Magic black soap! Today’s post will be about how it was done! Light some beeswax candles and settle in with a cup of nice herbal tea and read on!

I bought the provisions I needed to make the soap. I bought 5 pounds of goat’s milk soap, a soap mold and a soap cutter. I also bought rose petals at Organic Earth and sweet orange essential oil AND of course, the most famous ingredient that makes the soap blacker than raven wings, powdered charcoal. I gathered a kitchen scale, a wooden spoon, the supplies such as a measuring cup, teaspoons, a double boiler. Once I had everything I needed, I got to work. I also obtained calendula oil (my own homemade oil), rosemary essential oil, clary sage essential oil and lavender essential oil. 

I owned a bar of black charcoal soap but I had a hard time melting down the bar of soap. It never did soften the way I wanted it to. I could not get the black soap to melt down like I wanted it to- this was before I had the charcoal powder, so I let the soap sit all night. Once I did have the charcoal powder, everything was much easier. 

I melted the soap down again. I stirred in the coal black charcoal powder and wow the soap turned black! It was grey before, but now it was pitch black. I bought rowan berries from Etsy. I ground the berries to a powder using my herb cutter. I ground the rose hip berries using the herb cutter too. 

I poured half of the total soap to the soap mold. I waited several minutes to let the soap harden slightly and form a skim on the surface of the soap then I sprinkled the coffee on that and some of the ground rowan berries and rose hips. I added the calendula oil and the essential oils to the soap before pouring into the mold. I poured the rest of the soap into the mold. I waited again for the soap to harden and sprinkled the remaining herbs onto the surface of the soap. I love  how the ground berries and rose hip and calendula petals look on the soap. I was pleased with how it turned out and the soap mold felt so satisfyingly heavy. 

I left the soap to cure in the soap mold for 48 hours. A bit of the oil rubbed onto my fingers from the soap. After that time passed, I popped the soap out of the mold. I placed the soap onto a sheet of parchment paper and let it cure again overnight. I may leave the soap to harden some more for a few days, just to be sure. Then I will use the soap cutter or I could do that tonight. 

The Practical Magic black soap was not difficult to create, but very time consuming. It was important to pay attention to detail. I followed the instructions very carefully. The black soap contains no artificial ingredients, no food coloring or artificial dyes. The ingredients are all nurturing for your skin and natural. That is the way I wanted it to be. I will use the Practical Magic black soap for a face wash and since I have so much of it, may give some of it as gifts. I am very happy about the soap and I think it’s beautiful and smells divine!

I watched the movie Practical Magic last night. I just love that movie. Now I can share in a tradition with my homemade bewitching Practical Magic black soap. I will post the link where I found the recipe below!

https://underatinroof.com/blog/2017/10/24/herbal-interests-practical-magic-black-soap

Now you can try the recipe if you choose to do so! 

Blessings, Spiderwitch