One of the top tools in a witches cabinet is black salt. There are a million and one recipe's on how to make it but they all point to one thing - Protection. Power. Boundaries. This salt is mostly used in ritual and spell jars/bags/containers. It's uses are varied and many but it is not meant for consumption....ever.
Store bought black salt is just fine - if it is easier for you to purchase it then do so - that being said this is one of the easiest crafts to make in the...well... craft.
The basics
Most Black salt recipe's boil down to a few key ingredients:
Salt (Any kind)
Ash
Black Pepper corns
I would list the sources for this, but it would be a books worth so just trust me. You can google how to make it and almost every recipe will have those four ingredients listed. Fairly simple and easily procured for most folks. But lets boil it down even further to use only what we have in the moment - and work the creation of black salt into our day to day.
I love me an action that does not require too much additional attention. Actions that naturally roll into other actions make the energy output negligible.
What I do:
I get me a fire safe container, such as an old candle from Bath and Body works or Walmart that I've burned all the way down, or other larger candle container. The goal is for it to be heat and fire resistant, empty, and have a wide palm sized or bigger opening. Bonus points if you still have the lid.
I fill this container with my salt. Any kind:
Salt you got from your moms house
Dollar store salt
Salt from those little packets you get from fast food joints (you'll need a lot, but might as well use them)
A mix of all the salts you have in your goblin hoard of minerals
As long as it is salt you are good to go. You wanna take that salt and put it in your chosen container. I like to fill it up about half way or at least deep enough to hold an incense stick upright.
Then - use this newly made salt bowl as your incense holder! As the incense burns it will drop its ash into the salt. BOOM - now you have the two most important parts of witches salt mixing themselves. Before lighting a new stick of incense I'll use the tail end to mix up the last ones ash.
You can use thinner candle holders for this - but the likelihood of the ash falling outside of the container is higher - so I like to use those big boy candles for this.
I then put this salt bowl / incense burner near the entry way to my house. Why?
Let's talk about salt bowls for a second
I'll do a deep dive in another post, but high level; a bowl of salt near your door helps to cleanse the energies of the day off as you enter into the energy bubble of your home. It helps to keep the ick out and makes the House Bound Energy easier to maintain. This works even if the container of salt has a lid on it or is not able to be seen. Helpful if you have little humans or animals running around who like to get into things that are not for them.
So now - not only do you have a upcycled incense holder, you are actively making black salt base when you burn your incense AND you have a passive way to help keep the energy in your home balanced. Look at you being an over achiever.
Final steps
Depending on how often you burn incense sticks or cones and how saturated you want your salt with ash will depend on when you do the next steps.
Once satisfied with Ash to salt saturation you can add in the additional ingredients you want for your black salt such as:
Black Peppercorns (Or ground)
White peppercorns (Or ground)
Activated Charcoal (Local fish stores sell this stuff too)
Dried spicy peppers (Please be careful - its an eye, nose, throat, skin irritant)
Rosemary
Thyme
Coffee Grounds
Cloves
Ground egg shells
Insert your favorite herb here / the herb you foraged
If you need to grind ingredients then a mortar and pestle is a good way to go. Make sure you have one exclusively for your non-consumable witchy stuff. We don't want black salt residue going into the guacamole.
You can also use a burr grinder (Think Coffee bean grinder). Again - have one just for your non-consumables to avoid cross contamination. This can be manual or electric - whichever is in your budget/ available to you.
Or - you can go outside and use river rocks and grind stuff down the old fashioned way. Witchcraft does not require money to work. Whatever your method the goal is to have it all ground down to a powder like substance.
I personally like my black salt chunky. I use it for spell jars/bottles and bags and never in anything I plan to release outside or bury. We do not want to salt the earth my friends.
The current salt bowl I've been making black salt in has been going for about a year. I am using a Costco Candle container (three wick) and have been burning my incense in it consistently. It makes clean up a breeze and allows me to reduce how much I have to wipe down just to commune with Deity.
Not only that - I have not needed to use my black salt in some time- so knowing that it is there and is getting charged every single time I use it with my energy, intentions, wants, and needs makes it a powerful tool indeed.
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