Arachne's Web is now carrying two different types of essential oils. Class A is organic (if available), steam expressed and suitable for aromatherapeutic and medicinal purposes. Class B is suitable for crafting, incense making, and use in witchcraft.
 
Class: Essential Oil, Grade B
 
Background:
Basil
 
Uses:
Basil essential oil is used in a wide variety of applications from medicinal to perfuming. Basil is lovely spicy note to add to incense to perfumes, or to other crafts, to make a scent with wonderful finish. This oil is wonderful for use in incense, as a spicy note in bath and body care, soap making and in withcraft as a substitution for the plant material.
 
Correspondences:
Latin: Ocumum basilicum
Gender:    Masculine
Planetary:    Mars, Pluto, Venus
Zodiac:    Aries, Scorpio
Celebration:  Imbolc
Elements:    Fire
Goddesses:    Lakshmi
Gods:    Krishna, Vishnu 
 
Also known as: Common basil, St. Joseph's Wort, Witches Herb  

Magical Properties:
Assertiveness, attraction, banishing, business, clarvoyance, clarity, concentration, confidence, courage, divination, fertility, fidelity, focus, grief, (break) hexes, honesty, luck, messages, money, power, prosperity, protection, psychic ability, purification, release, strength, stress, success, wealth, wishes and witchcraft. 
 
Medicinal Properties:
This is grade B essential oil, and is not recommended for medicinal uses. 
 
Contraindications:
Grade B essential oils are not recommended for medicinal use, so have no contraindications. Not for internal use.
 
You will receive:  A one ounce amber glass bottle of grade B essential basil oil.