I was recently told that copal resin is soluble in oil; well, that is to say (according to my informant) that it can be either melted down and fully incorporated into the base-oil, or that it can be melted into the oil by simply heating them together. Do you know if this is viable advise?

Also, because I have not attempted to employ resins in oils through such a method, about how much resin might one need for an ultimate oil with the potency of scent of any EO?

Oh, and it's not simple anti-craft v. pro-craft that is of essential concern in this regard, but it's purificatory properties (as well as scent) that I am after roght *now*. Though, I would like to ultimately employ it as an ingredient for a future Protection Potion I'd like to eventually formulate. ;o) Besides, I thought my mom could use it, 'cause she's working in a dreadfully negative working environment at the moment.

Apparently her bosses are behaving rather tyranically to the staff (what can be expected when they hire spoiled rotten Barbie-clones that have never REALLY had to work a REAL job for a living, and have lost touch with reality because they are literally unab;e to comprehend--if you can imagine it--how *anyone* is unable to travel out of the state or country when they have vacation-time, despite being told that they can't afford to!): Now, because the Board for the co. my mom works for was burned by an earlier Administration that abused the system, one Board Member had the good sense to ask mom--the receptionist who was essentially asked by the Board to take the position, as she has been a grunt with the co. for more than 20 years!--to keep tabs on how many hous the Administration is there each week, so that there's a paper-train to ensure that they are working their 40 hours/week!

Now, mom told them more than once that they were supposed to fill out a VERY simple form letting the Board know at the end of the year when they need time off, as wella s for what reason, but they haven't been doing so. Now, mom explicitely told them this more than once, but they completely denied it!!! Now, mom would have let this slide, but one of the Administrators deliberally told her a hurtful lie, which mom found out was incorrect (that the Board was contacting the Admins complaining about her) 'cause *she( called the Board to rat 'em out! So, now, the Admins. are treating mom aweful for what amounts to their own damned fault!

Ugh...if anyone else working there had pulled HALF the crap that THEY get away with, they'd be fired on the spot! (Actually, when they know they're gonna' fire someone, rather than firing them on the spot, they wait until they get ALL the work out of them that they can, and fire them at the end of their shift, which seems so unethical IMO.) They somehow think they are "special" and are able to lay down rules, but don't have to follow them themselves, because they're "privelaged"! One of the Admins. recently bitched that she needed some minor surgery, and that she was going to have to use some of her vacation and personal days to recover from, as if she should have to, when anyone else would!

Ugh...and people wonder why I'm a Socialist! I keep saying that the girls working on the floor need to invest in a guillotine--it worked for the French!

So, anyway, I was thinking of carving a seal onto a black candle, and then anointing as a Magickal gift for mom. She's really unhappy, and has almost cried a couple of times as a result of their treatment of her, now; and, it's prolonging an aweful col mom's had for more than the past two weeks!

But, mom also fears that all of the "sallary" people are conspiring against her, and gathering as much evidence as they can so that they can dismiss her, when mom's a model employee (the Admins. have previously told her on numerous times they'd be beside themselves if she ever left!).

no, they don't sell copal essential oil. and and MacMorrighan wants copal explicitly, so yeah,
thank you for your wanton advertising