Resources

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Following are my recommended resources for all things witchcraft, herbalism, natural beauty and cleaning – including my favorite books, shops, and useful links.

These are my favorite books that I own and can personally recommend for anyone interested in these topics.

Herbalism (General)

  • Rosemary Gladstar’s Herbal Recipes for Vibrant Health – Renowned herbalist Rosemary Gladstar provides 175 proven therapies and herbal remedies that are easy to prepare and safe enough for children. Offering a potent and effective alternative to commercial pharmaceuticals, Gladstar will inspire you to nurture yourself and those you love with nature’s healing herbs.
  • Rosemary Gladstar’s Medicinal Herbs: A Beginner’s Guide: 33 Healing Herbs to Know, Grow, and Use – In this introductory guide, Rosemary Gladstar shows you how easy it can be to make your own herbal remedies for life’s common ailments. Gladstar profiles 33 common healing plants and includes advice on growing, harvesting, preparing, and using herbs in healing tinctures, oils, and creams.
  • Home Herbal by Penelope Ody – A great book for my British and Australian readers. Full of instructions for making herbal medicines including tons of recipes, pictures, and an herbal encyclopedia. All measurements are in grams and milliliters.

Herbal Beauty

  • Herbal Body Book by Jeanne Rose – Classic book that explains in detail how to make and use your own herbal body products. Everything you need from hair products to belly salve for a pregnant woman is inside this most useful companion. Jeanne Rose encourages the reader to make their own blend of herbs to target specific conditions, not follow a limited number of recipes.
  • The Herbal Body Book by Stephanie Tourles – Discover how to transform common herbs, fruits, and grains into safe, economical, and natural personal care items. Includes more than 100 recipes for facial scrubs, shampoos, lip balms, moisturizers, and more.

Natural Cleaning

  • The Naturally Clean Home – This book contains 150 super-easy recipes for green cleaning. This is my favorite book on the topic, and it’s been recently updated and revised.
  • Clean House Clean Planet – Karen Logan, an environmentalist with years of experience developing and selling her own line of eco-friendly cleaning products, reveals the secret of using simple, ordinary ingredients—like baking soda, vinegar, soap, lemon juice, and salt—to make safe, inexpensive cleaners.

Green Witchcraft

  • The Green Witch – Discover the power of natural magic and healing through herbs, flowers, and essential oils in this guide to green witchcraft. Written by one of my favorite authors, Arin Murphy-Hiscock. I recommend all of her books!
  • The Green Witch’s Grimoire – Your complete guide to creating your own natural book of magic. This book is like an in-depth class on creating and using a green witch grimoire. I highly recommend it if you’re interested in this topic.

Natural Magic

  • Cunningham’s Encyclopedia of Magical Herbs – This comprehensive guide features magical uses of over 400 herbs and plants from all parts of the world. With over 500,000 copies in print, this reference book is a must for all who perform natural magic. It features illustrations for easy identification of every herb, in addition to common names, use, and rulership.
  • Cunningham’s Encyclopedia of Crystal, Gem & Metal Magic – Practice an ancient magic that is both natural and powerful―the elemental Earth magic of crystals, stones, and metals. Learn how to find and cleanse stones and use them in divinations, spells, and tarot card readings. Discover how to determine the energies and stories contained within each stone, and the symbolic meanings of a stone’s color and shape.
  • The Complete Book of Incense, Oils and Brews – Colored candles, scented oils, natural incenses, and more all add to the impact of your magic. But how do you know which incense to burn? Is it possible to add scented oils together to get a more powerful oil? And how do you make your own appropriately-scented tools? The answers to questions like these and hundreds more can be found in this must-have book.

Almanacs, Calendars & Planners

  • Llewellyn’s 2025 Magical Almanac – This book is ESSENTIAL to my practice, and I could not live without it. Packed with spells, rituals, and new ideas for enhancing your magical practice. Includes daily correspondences (color, moon, incense of the day), plus an energetic forecast, which analyzes major astrological movements, numerology, the zodiac, and tarot.
  • Llewellyn’s 2025 Witches’ Calendar – Helps you make the most out of each day by providing the Moon’s signs and phases, daily color correspondences, solar and lunar eclipses, lunar gardening tips, and Celtic tree months. It also offers information on planetary motions―such as retrogrades―and correspondence tables for working powerful magic. Includes US, Canadian, and Pagan holidays.
  • Llewellyn’s 2025 Witches’ Datebook – Plan your way to success at home, at work, and in your spiritual practice. Includes an at-a-glance guide to the best days to plant and harvest, moon lore and phases for successful spellcasting, daily planetary and color correspondences to empower your magical work, spiral-bound design with calendar spreads that make it easy to write in appointments and special events.
  • Bloom Daily Planners – I use these planners to plan my daily chores, work schedule, projects, appointments, etc. for every day, week, and month of the year. I like the large, hardcover planners best – but Bloom also makes smaller and softcover planners. Check out their store!

Where to Buy Dried Herbs

These are my preferred mail-order sources for obtaining dried herbs. I personally order from all of these companies, and I believe they have great quality products and operate responsibly. Between them, you should be able to get just about every herb you could want or need.

  • Mountain Rose Herbs – Their line of organic herbs are guaranteed fresh, colorful, and fragrant. Mountain Rose Herbs is a zero-waste certified company with a commitment to fair trade sourcing and sustainability.
  • Rosemary’s Garden – Rosemary’s Garden is dedicated to providing a comprehensive range of herbs and herbal remedies, supplies to enable making herbal concoctions and organic, wild-crafted, sustainable and natural products.
  • Healing Spirits Herb Farm – A family-owned herb farm in New York. All of their herbs are certified organically grown and ethically wild-crafted, and they’re hand-picked, solar dried, and hand-processed on the farm.
  • Purple Sage Farms – For more than 30 years, Purple Sage Farms has specialized in growing a wide range of organic herbs, greens, and vegetables. Today, that has expanded to over 250 varieties of crops ranging from the familiar and traditional to the obscure and exotic.

Where to Buy Essential Oils

If you have a local health food store, you might be able to purchase essential oils there. If you need to order your oils, I recommend these companies:

  • Plant Therapy – This is where I prefer to buy my essential oils. They are therapeutic grade and very high quality, but not too expensive.
  • NOW Essential Oils – If you’re on a budget, NOW Essential Oils are good quality and I use them often. You can typically find them available for sale in local health food stores. If you live in a small town like me, you can easily order them online.
  • Pranarom – If you have more money to spend, Pranarom is probably the best essential oil company out there (in my opinion). Their oils are pricy, but ethically made and of the highest quality and purity.

Where to Buy Supplies

Empty bottles and jars, strainers, cheesecloth, carrier oils, and all the other supplies you could ever need to practice herbalism can be found here:

  • Mountain Rose Herbs – Containers, bottles, jars, carrier oils, clays and butters, cosmetic supplies, DIY ingredients, kitchen tools, and so much more.
  • Rosemary’s Garden – All kinds of supplies for herbal medicine making and homemade cosmetics – from beeswax to witch hazel – including empty containers, oils, powders, butters, kitchen tools, and more.
  • Bramble Berry – All types of homemade cosmetic supplies, including storage containers, oils and butters, soap making supplies, molds, essential oils, fragrances, and so much more. They have the BEST prices on carrier oils and butters.
  • Specialty Bottle – They carry all kinds and sizes of jars, bottles, and containers for storing your homemade herbal cosmetics and medicines. Shipping can be pricey for small orders, but individual item prices are very good.

Where to Buy Incense

I’ve had some questions about where I find my incense for “incense of the day.” The answer is Etsy! Following are the shops I can recommend for hard-to-find incense varieties:

  • Gia’s Traditions – My favorite shop for high-quality, affordable incense. She has a huge selection of different scents and usually has a coupon running.
  • Sacred Mists – I buy my Sabbat incense from Sacred Mists and they are absolutely lovely. Wonderful quality, fast shipping, and good prices too.
  • Alchemy Flame – This shop is my alternative to Gia’s Traditions. If Gia’s is out of a certain incense I need, I will always check here first. Good prices and lots of variety too.

Here are links to websites and resources that might be helpful if you’re interested in natural living and herbalism:

  • Rosemary Gladstar’s Science & Art of Herbalism Course – Considered by many to be one of the finest home study courses on herbalism available in this country, The Science & Art of Herbalism offers a comprehensive overview of herbalism and prepares the student to competently and effectively use herbs for home health care.