A Recipe for Sweetgrass Oil

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Sweetgrass Essential Oil

(for candles, soap or incense)

Ingredients:

 

- 6-10 braids of fresh

sweetgrass

- Almond or Grape-

seed oil

- Jar with lid

- Nylon stocking

 

 

 

INSTRUCTIONS FOR MAKING ESSENTIAL OILS

1. Using a glass jar, place 6-10 braids of fresh sweetgrass into a glass

container.

2. Add a base oil, like almond oil or grapeseed oil to create a fixative.

Pour oil

into the jar until it covers all the sweetgrass.

3. Place in cool dark place for several weeks. The longer you leave the

scent, t

the more powerful it becomes.

4. When the scent has been removed from the sweetgrass, remove the

Sweetgrass braids from jar. Using a nylon stocking, filter all remaining

particles out of the oil by pouring the oil through the stocking material.

5. When the scent is pleasant, fill glass containers or vials with the oil

and label t

them.

 

Courtesy of Midwest Native Skills Institute - _www.SurvivalSchool.www_

(http://www.SurvivalSchool.com)

 

 

 

I'm not really interested in making this myself! But maybe someone else is?

 

I also found sites for buying the seeds to grow your own, or buying the

dried braids of grass, and one source of oil for $24.50 for a half ounce, which

sounds a bit steep. I'll continue searching! Not tonight though!

 

 

Love & Light, Barbara

 

" Hope is the thing with feathers

That perches in the soul,

And sings the tune without the words,

And never stops at all... " --Emily Dickinson

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Hi, Barbara,

 

You can also make a sweetgrass tincture in a very similar manner. I do

this, and combine it with White Sage and Cedar in a spray. 1 part tincture

to 3 parts water (or ¼ of the bottle is tincture, the rest water). It makes

a nice smudge for places where you can’t have the smoke burning, or for

those who are sensitive.

 

I am part Pennacook (Abenaki), though you’d never know it to see the

blondish hair and blue eyes. A good deal of the tribe looks that way now,

after almost 400 years of contact with Europeans. Sweetgrass grows very

easily for us here in NH. I highly doubt that our local natives used White

Sage in their smudging until recently (within the past century), as it would

have been near impossible to get the quantities needed to last any tribe

long through normal trading. I’ve got some interesting theories about this,

but nothing solid.

 

Hope that helps!

 

Rebecca Jones

www.sagelivingllc.com

[Guest guest]

Oh I just love sweetgrass! Thanks for sending this.

 

~Amber

 

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FeatherGoRightly

12/18/2008 5:00:52 AM

 

A Recipe for Sweetgrass Oil

 

 

 

Sweetgrass Essential Oil

(for candles, soap or incense)

Ingredients:

 

- 6-10 braids of fresh

sweetgrass

- Almond or Grape-

seed oil

- Jar with lid

- Nylon stocking

 

 

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

In a message dated 12/18/2008 10:54:12 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,

rebecca writes:

 

Hi Rebecca,

 

 

Yes, I get the blondish hair and blue eyes, though both of mine have faded

to gray! I'm also the multi-great granddaughter of Roger Williams, who

blessedly was the one European who took the Native American's interests to heart

even to the point of getting tossed out of Salem, Mass, and then established the

state of Rhode Island as a place for religious freedom. He was always a

friend to the Narragansetts, and is well thought of still. He's my ancestor on

both parents side and even my step-father is a descendant of his. I suspect

half the old families in Rhode Island have ties to him. I call myself

Palefaced Indian sometimes... lol! I have a t-shirt from The Mountain from a

few

years back with an elderly Native American woman with long white hair with

feathers tied into her hair... she's so beautiful. I was wearing it one day

and suddenly realized she has my exact profile! I may not have the coloring,

but I've got the bone structure!

 

 

Now, to make the tincture, what do you use? Just water? Some use alcohol,

right? I think maybe I need a good book of basics for making my own. I

usually just buy these things ready made, but making my own sounds like it

could

be fun! Does anyone have good book suggestions?

 

 

I have a Narragansett neighbor, two doors down, who is on the tribal

council, and she looks Native American, so I assume a lot higher blood line for

her.

She's beautiful, and so are her daughters. Her husband is Caucasian, Irish

descent, from New Hampshire. Besides English and Narragansett, I also have

a bit of French Canadian and German Jew in my background. Quite a mixture.

My spiritualilty seems to reflect my bloodlines though, which fascinates me.

 

 

If Sweetgrass grows in NH, I should probably get some seed and try some

here. Connecticut's climate is similar. I have my half acre planted as a

mini-wildlife preserve. No herbicides or insecticides. Native plants that

feed

the wildlife. I have an abundance of critters on this little lot! Lily and I

spent some time yesterday watching a squirrel couple building a new nest in

the V of one of our oak trees... fun! Lily wants to be a squirrel. She wants

to fly from tree to tree and loves to eat acorns! Silly puppy! I get a lot

of deer through here, and all kinds of small animals, raccoons, skunks,

woodchucks, bunnies, 'possums, and of course, birds and butterflies and lady

bugs! Hummingbirds too, because I plant tons of impatiens in hanging pots and

hang them from tree limbs. It's amazing what you can do with a half acre

really. They love my garden! I let things go to seed to feed them, so it's

not

terribly tidy, but is bright and colorful and active!

 

 

It seems as if with all the pow-wows or rendezvous that go on now, it's

harder to see the separate cultures of different tribes, doesn't it? Like

Narragansetts made their jewelry with wampum, purple shell, not with turquoise

and

other stones. I found some lovely carved wampum pieces, seashells and

seahorses, at Schemitzun , Festival of Green Corn and Dance, last year, and made

them into ear rings. I love Schemitzun! Now I'm a member of the Pequot

Museum, with a season pass that includes entrance to Schemitzun, so I can go

every

day during the festival! Not that I can afford to because I love the stuff

there so much! I get my supply for the year of Sage and Sweetgrass, and

always find a piece of artwork or two, and some jewelry or makings for some,

and

love the dancing. It always feels like home to me!

 

 

Well, gotta go watch GMA. I just watch the first hour, then back in here to

use my light box and type some more. See ya!

 

 

 

Love & Light, Barbara

 

" Hope is the thing with feathers

That perches in the soul,

And sings the tune without the words,

And never stops at all... " --Emily Dickinson

 

 

 

 

<<<Hi, Barbara,

 

You can also make a sweetgrass tincture in a very similar manner. I do

this, and combine it with White Sage and Cedar in a spray. 1 part tincture

to 3 parts water (or ¼ of the bottle is tincture, the rest water). It makes

a nice smudge for places where you can’t have the smoke burning, or for

those who are sensitive.

 

I am part Pennacook (Abenaki), though you’d never know it to see the

blondish hair and blue eyes. A good deal of the tribe looks that way now,

after almost 400 years of contact with Europeans. Sweetgrass grows very

easily for us here in NH. I highly doubt that our local natives used White

Sage in their smudging until recently (within the past century), as it would

have been near impossible to get the quantities needed to last any tribe

long through normal trading. I’ve got some interesting theories about this,

but nothing solid.

 

Hope that helps!

 

Rebecca Jones

www.sagelivingllc.www>>>

 

 

 

 

 

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