Dried Calendula Flower Uses. Strain, discard the flowers and reserve the oil. Calendula can be used as an incense and infusion to cleanse or consecrate your magick tools and your mind from negative thoughts.
To make calendula oil, fill a glass jar with dried calendula flower heads and/or petals. Calendula is beautiful, low maintenance, fights off bad guys, heals and feeds. Allow the oil to infuse on a sunny window sill for 4 to 6 weeks.
Just about all of these recipes will require dried calendula flowers, which you can harvest and preserve on your own or purchase them from a quality source.
Calendula has even been used as a perfume ingredient. It is used in wreaths, flower arrangements (fresh and dried), and in potpourri. Allow it to cool, then strain it. Calendula can also help reduce gingivitis and plaque because of its antiseptic property, according to a 2013 study.