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Osun Camwood
In stock at Atlanta and Decatur.
What this is
A ritual soap, used the way a bath is used — for clearing, before anything is set burning.
The practice
What this tradition does with an object like this — how it is used, not a promise about what follows.
- FridayVenus’s day — worked for love, sweetness and reconciliation.
How it is used
- 1Used as an ordinary soap is used, with the intention said as you use it.
- 2Work downward, shoulders toward the feet, the same direction as a bath.
Working it properly
The craft under the instructions — direction, count and order. This is the part that is normally only said across a counter.
- Worked downward, shoulders to feet, in the same direction as a bath, and used up rather than kept.
- Practitioners keep it to one purpose. A soap bought for cleansing is not also the soap used for drawing.
What completes the working
A working is a ladder, not a single object. Each rung below says what the addition does, and shows what Yeye's Botanica carries for it.
the soap washes, the bath dresses — they are two steps, not two options
a wipe of cleansing water afterwards, on the hands and the back of the neck
What people get wrong
- Treating it as decoration. It is used up; that is the point of it.
Named for Ochún
Fresh water, love, sweetness and money that comes through people.
- ColoursYellow and gold
- DayFriday
- Customary offeringHoney — traditionally tasted first by the one offering it.
What is here is what the label says and what any botanica will tell you across the counter. Ceremony, initiation and anything belonging to a house is not ours to publish — that is between you and a padrino or madrina.
