✦✦✦"Love Smells Like Death" Ritual Salt Bath✦✦✦
✦Limited Edition‡. Ready to Ship.✦
The seven ingredients of this Salt Bath were chosen for their skin-loving, detoxifying, nourishing, calming, and beautifying properties as well as their magical and ritual associations.
This Salt Bath, crafted on Babalon Holy Days, was ritually consecrated and intended to detoxify your life as well as your body and give you a taste of the Goddess known as Babalon.
✧Sink into the black waters with your own ritual intention and focus on releasing, cleansing, letting go, and detoxifying whatever aspects of your self and your life need to be released.✧
Release negative self-talk, a connection or relationship that no longer serves you, habits or behaviors you are ready to unlearn, and so much more. Excellent to use after a breakup or the loss of a beloved to assist grief to flow out of you into the darkened waters. As you bathe, the roses that begin black will slowly reveal their colors to you.
In addition to its skincare benefits, the inclusion of Black Himalayan Salt gives the salt bath a ✦distinctly sulfurous aroma✦ that seems to vary in strength from jar to jar and person to person. It was this scent that inspired the name of the product, though the name itself is a reference to Georges Bataille's essay "The Language of Flowers." More in-depth information on each ingredient and their skincare benefits below.
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No prior magical experience or relationship with Babalon is required to utilize the magic of this bath, more info about her below. It can be used as a ritual in and of itself or as part of preparation for self-love, self-care, or self-pleasure rituals; sorcerous or devotional work to Babalon; or any other ritual centered around embodiment, liberation, and/or pleasure.
Pair with our Sugar Scrub prior to bathing or our Face Mask before, during, or after your bath, for an even more full-body experience.
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✦Comes in two sizes, packed by volume rather than weight✦
✧12 oz glass jar
✧4 oz glass jar
Suggested use is 4-6oz per luxuriously milky bath, 1-3 baths per jar depending on size and depending on how black you would like your bath water.
Includes card with detailed instructions, ingredients and recommended use.
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✦How To Use✦
NOTE: It is recommended to use a bathtub drain catcher (commercially made or a piece of mesh, cheesecloth, or netting can work as well) as the abundance of rose petal pieces in this salt bath can be challenging for many drains.
The charcoal powder in this bath will cling to any spots of oil in your tub and may leave a ring of black around the water level. It is advised to clean the tub before and after.
✧General instructions:✧
Run a warm bath to your desired temperature and add 1/2 to 1 jar of Salt Bath under the running water. Slip in and enjoy the dark, charcoal-black color, subtle scent, and luxurious experience of rose petals caressing your skin.
If desired, also apply our Babalon Ritual Face Mask while bathing for additional beautification or prep for the bath with our Sugar Scrub to exfoliate your skin prior to bathing, allowing even more of the magical and ingredient-based benefits to penetrate more effectively.
✧Ritual instructions:✧
Can be used before, during, or after ritual depending on your desire. Use during ritual as the focal point to infuse yourself with your intent. Use before ritual to assist in purifying and consecrating yourself. Use after ritual to somatically infuse yourself with the works you just did and to assist in grounding and centering yourself. All are excellent uses of a ritual bath.
For an amazing and extensive step-by-step ritual bathing article by the AstroMage Kaitlin Coppock, check out: https://sphereandsundry.com/lo-a-step-by-step-guide-to-ritual-bathing-personal-energetic-cleansing-w-astrology/
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✦Ingredient List:✦
Red Clay Sea Salt, Magnesium Salt/Flakes, Black Lava Sea Salt, Black Himalayan Salt, Rosehip Powder, Coconut Activated Charcoal Powder, Rose Petal Powder and Pieces
✧In-Depth Ingredients:✧
❶ Red Clay Sea Salt, or Alaea Salt is infused with Alaea Hawaiian Volcanic Clay, said to be rich in 80 reported naturally occurring trace minerals, including iron, which gives it it’s extraordinary natural red hue. The clay and minerals may assist in detoxifying the body; improving the appearance of skin, hair and nails; and possibly reduce inflammation.
❷ Magnesium Salt/Flakes (magnesium chloride) in a bath may increase your body's magnesium levels. Magnesium plays a crucial role in over 300 fundamental biochemical reactions and influences nearly all of the body's systems. Baths high in magnesium are said to soothe sore muscles, reduce skin irritation, encourage relaxation, reduce the likelihood of muscle cramps, improve circulation, improve heart health, and assist in nervous system regulation.
❸ Black Lava Sea Salt is infused with activated charcoal. It is said to have many antioxidant and detoxifying properties, explored more in ingredient 6 below.
❹ Black Himalayan Salt, or Kala Namak, is rich in minerals that include sulfates, sulfides, iron and magnesium. The sodium chloride provides the salty taste, the iron sulfide provides its pinkish-grey colour and the hydrogen sulphide provides its distinctive (sulfurous) smell. It is said to have anti-inflammatory properties and may aid in healing cracked heels and broken skin, correcting yellow nails, encouraging hair growth, and treating split ends.
❺ Rosehip Powder is known for its very high amounts of Vitamin C, which stimulates collagen production, and essential fatty acids that are anti-inflammatory, helping to reduce redness, irritation, and sun damage. It also contains a decent amount of Vitamin A, which softens the skin and help to even out skin tone.
❻ Coconut Activated Charcoal Powder is said to be a detoxification powerhouse. It may detoxify the skin by attracting and trapping toxins in its millions of tiny pores, working to unclog yours. It may draw impurities and excess sebum--skin oil--out of the body, providing balance and relief for those with extremely oily or problematic skin. It is also said to have antibacterial and antifungal properties that can help heal damaged skin.
❼ Roses are included both in the form of rose petal pieces that will float luxuriously in your tub, and also mixed in to the fine powder that also includes activated charcoal and rosehips. Roses, much like rosehips, are full of antioxidants and vitamins A and C, they are known to be anti-inflammatory and lightly astringent, which may help to calm and smooth the skin, reduce redness, and assist with healing.
The Rose Petal Pieces used in this bath were hand-crushed, dried roses given to one of the multiple Babalon altars in my home. Care has been taken to only include the finest pieces.
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✦Babalon the Great: Mother of Abominations; Holy Whore; Goddess of Harlots, Embodiment, Manifestation, and Mystery!✦
She is the Goddess of all those who know liberation through the body, including but not limited to sexuality. Goddess of sex workers, gender and sexual transgressors, queers, kinksters, trans people, etc.
Our Lady who rideth upon the Beast and is known by many names: Inanna, Ishtar, Astarte, and more. She is the Lady of the Scarlet Rose, Flame-Haired Goddess, Bearer of the Chalice, Daughter of Fortitude, Hierodule of Heaven, Anima Mundi, and Lover of All!
Flame is our Lady. Flame is Her hair. I am Flame.
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‡This Salt Bath, along with the other Babalon Ritual Products in this shop, was crafted between February 28th, 2021 and March 3rd, 2021, marking the 75th Anniversary of the Writing of the Book of Babalon (Liber 49) by Jack Parsons.
The channeling of this book occurred on February 28th, 1946 as part of The Babalon Working, which had begun in January of the same year. This working culminated four hours before dawn on the night of the 3rd/morning of the 4th of March, 1946 with The Birth of Babalon.
Ritual consecration of this and other products in our Babalon Ritual Products line was performed four hours before dawn on March 4th, 2021, birthing these products on the 75th anniversary of the Birth of Babalon ritual.
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✦Obligatory Disclaimer:✦
Sold as a bath product and curio only. This product has not been evaluated by the FDA and is not intended to treat, diagnose, cure, or prevent any disease. If you have an allergy to any ingredient listed, please do not use. Please perform a skin patch test before using and consult with a doctor if irritation occurs. While this contains nothing inedible or poisonous, it was not created in a commercial kitchen to GMP standards and is not suitable or intended for consumption. Use externally only. Keep this (and all our wares) out of reach of children. Do not use while pregnant or trying to get pregnant. Any and all use undertaken at the user’s sole risk and liability.
