Black Salt is used for cursing, protection, banishing, cleansing, breaking spells or hexes, and repelling negative energy.
Black salt is made by combining either activated charcoal or ashes from burned herbs or incense with sea salt.
Using activated charcoal will actually make your salt a dark black color, whereas using ashes will turn it into a lighter grey color.
Depending on what you plan to use black salt for, you can add different types of ash or other ingredients that correspond with your intent.
Ashes from various herbs and incenses for black salt:
Basil - banishing, protection, spell-breaking
Cedarwood - cleansing, protection
Cypress - protection
Dragon’s blood - cleansing, protection, cursing, banishing
Frankincense - cleansing, protection, spell-breaking
Mullein - protection (especially for acts of magick involving spirit work)
Rosemary - cleansing, banishing
Rue - banishing, cursing, protection, spell-breaking
Sage - cleansing, protection, banishing
Sandalwood - cleansing, protection
Thyme - cleansing, banishing
Tobacco - banishing, cursing
Valerian - protection
Wormwood - cursing, protection, spell-breaking
Other ingredients you can add to black salt:
Black pepper - cleansing, banishing, cursing, protection
Cayenne pepper - banishing, cursing, protection
Chili powder - banishing, cursing, spell-breaking
Garlic salt - banishing, cleansing, spell-breaking
Iron shavings (like from the bottom of your cauldron or a cast-iron pot or pan) - protection
Nutmeg - protection, spell-breaking
Onion salt - banishing, spell-breaking
Making black salt:
Combine the ingredients and grind together using a mortar and pestle, coffee grinder, or herb grinder
Using black salt:
Add to spell jars or sachets Sprinkle in areas around your home to create a barrier
Create a circle of protection before performing spellsKeep a container of black salt under your bed or pillow to prevent nightmares or bad dreams
Add to a jar to create a
If using skin-safe components and ingredients, make a facial scrub or mask for cleansing
Anoint objects with black salt
Add to a container of
War Water (especially if your black salt contains iron shavings)Sprinkle a small amount on a neighbor’s lawn to make them want to move
Add some to a hollow pendant and wear to deflect negativity Sprinkle on items that hold bad or negative memories to cleanse them
Add a line of black salt in front of doorways and windows to keep out negative energy and spirits or entities
Add a pinch to homemade floor washes for cleansing
Use to symbolize the waning, new, and dark moon; or Saturn and Pluto