Art of the Root is a small Ohio workshop that makes ritual supplies by hand and sells them directly from its own shop. The catalogue runs to 476 products, but one line dominates it and is the reason most people arrive: 160 bottles of conjure and ritual oil, nearly all of them priced at the same figure.

This review looks at that oil line specifically, and it does so from the shop’s own published data rather than from its sales copy: the public product feed, the collection pages, the individual product pages, and the three policy documents that decide what happens after you pay. Every figure below was read on 2 November 2026, in US dollars, and can be checked the same way.

What the Art of the Root oils line actually is

The Art of the Root oils sit inside a catalogue of 476 products across sixteen product types, and the biggest single type is the Art of the Root oils: 160 of them, just over a third of everything on sale. Candles come second at 100. The whole catalogue carries 524 variants between 476 products, which means 460 listings have exactly one buyable option and only sixteen offer a choice at all.

Two details from the feed set the tone for everything else. Every one of the 476 products carries at least one image, and every one of them lists the same vendor: Art Of The Root. None of the Art of the Root oils, and nothing else in the shop, is resold stock hiding in the catalogue under someone else’s brand name. The collection page says the same thing in plain words: “All Art of the Root products are handmade daily in the USA.”

The Art of the Root oils price ladder, bottle by bottle

Pricing is the part of the Art of the Root oils line that is easiest to misread, because the headline number is so consistent that it looks like the whole story. 133 of the 160 Art of the Root oils cost exactly $9.99, which is 83.1 per cent of the line. The other 27 Art of the Root oils are not random: they fall into three clearly separate products wearing the same product type.

Set against the shop as a whole, the Art of the Root oils sit near the floor. Across all 476 products the cheapest listing is $5.99, the lower quartile $9.99, the median $14.99, the upper quartile $18.99, and the single dearest item $59.00. A standard oil is therefore not merely cheap in isolation; it is cheaper than two thirds of the catalogue it sits in. You can see the whole ladder at the Art of the Root shop.

Buying Art of the Root oils in sets: the arithmetic

The shop sells bundles of Art of the Root oils but does not publish the saving, so it is worth doing once. Both calculations use the standard $9.99 bottle as the comparison, which is what the sets are built from.

The discount grows with the size of the bundle rather than staying flat, which is the sensible way round and not always what you find. It also means the sets are the only place in the oil line where the price per bottle moves at all: everywhere else, $9.99 is $9.99.

What one of the Art of the Root oils product pages tells you

The Art of the Root oils product pages are the strongest part of the shop, and they are strong in an unfashionable way: they are long, and they are specific. The median Art of the Root oils description runs to 2,663 characters, with the shortest at 1,145 and the longest at 6,494. That is several hundred words per bottle, on a $9.99 item.

More to the point, the structure repeats across the Art of the Root oils. 156 of the 160 oils (97.5 per cent) name their ingredients on the page, and 148 of 160 (92.5 per cent) carry a “How to use” section. The Money Drawing Oil page, for instance, states that the blend is made with chamomile, alfalfa, cinnamon, allspice “and a few other potent money-drawing herbs, oils, and resins”, then spends three further sections on wearing it, using it in a candle ritual, and turning it into a conjure powder.

That matters commercially as well as editorially. A shop that prints its ingredient list on 156 of 160 Art of the Root oils pages is a shop you can buy from with an allergy, or avoid with one.

Where the Art of the Root oils documentation runs thin

The same feed shows where the Art of the Root oils housekeeping has slipped, and all of it is the kind of thing worth checking before you add to cart rather than after.

• 21 of the 160 Art of the Root oils pages do not state a bottle size at all. Where a size is given it is almost always a half ounce, and the bottle labels in the product photography read 15 ML, but you have to infer it on those 21.
• The same size is written five different ways across the line: a half-ounce symbol with “oz” on 131 pages, the same symbol with “ounce” on two, “1/2 oz” on two, “1/2 ounce” on one. Three products are 4 oz.
• Eight of the 160 Art of the Root oils carry no SKU in the product data.
• The oils collection holds 159 items while the feed types 160 as oil. The odd one out is a $18.99 reed diffuser, which is arguably in the right collection and the wrong product type rather than the reverse.
• Shipping weight is recorded as 57 g on 145 of the bottles, with heavier figures on the multi-bottle sets, so the physical product is consistent even where the wording is not.

None of this changes what arrives. It does mean that if you are comparing two bottles by volume, the product page is not always going to answer you, and the search box is a better tool than the collection menu.

The stock-out pattern that tells you what is handmade

This is the finding that reframes the Art of the Root oils and the whole shop around them. At the time of writing, 46 of the 476 products around the Art of the Root oils were completely out of stock. They are not scattered across the catalogue. Every single one of them sits in one of three categories, and all three are things a workshop buys in rather than makes.

Books, cauldrons, athames and mala beads are manufactured goods with suppliers and lead times. Oils, candles, incense, soaps, bath salts, sprays, spell kits, washes, lotions, gift sets and conjure powders are blended on site, and the shipping page says they are made “by hand, on a daily basis”. The feed agrees with the sentence: thirteen categories at 100 per cent availability, three categories carrying every single stock-out in the shop. If your order is Art of the Root oils, the thing you are least likely to hit is an empty shelf.

Beyond the oils: the rest of the shelf

The Art of the Root oils line does not stand alone, and the bestsellers list shows what it shares the cart with. Of the 57 products in the bestsellers collection, 25 are candles and 23 are oils, with four sprays, three soaps, one gift set and one ritual spell kit making up the rest. Those two categories alone account for 84 per cent of the shop’s own bestsellers.

That is a coherent shop rather than a sprawling one. Candles at 100 listings, tarot and books at 39, altar supplies at 32 and spell kits at 22 are all natural companions to a bottle of oil, and the kits in particular bundle an oil with the other pieces a working needs. The jewellery and tool shelves, as the stock table above shows, are the thinnest part of the operation.

How the shop says to choose between Art of the Root oils

With 160 Art of the Root oils and names that do not always explain themselves, the choosing is the hard part, and the shop does publish a guide to it. Its own blog piece on conjure oils walks through the Art of the Root oils for money, love, protection and cleansing work, and names specific bottles for each: Money Drawing, Quick Cash, Wealthy Way and King Midas on the money side; Love and Attraction, Looking for Love, Irresistible Me and Goddess of Love on the other.

The collection page adds an offer that is rarer than it sounds for a shop this size: “Not sure which Magick Oil to choose? Reach out to us and we can direct you to the perfect one!” For a first order, that is probably a better route than guessing from 160 labels, and it costs nothing to ask before you browse the oils yourself.

Shipping an Art of the Root oils order: the $100 line

One number governs the whole delivery experience for Art of the Root oils, and it appears twice. Every package is insured up to $100.00, and separately, orders over $100.00 require a signature for delivery, as do all shipments to commercial addresses and freight forwarders. At $9.99 a bottle that threshold lands at about ten oils, which is a realistic basket for anyone stocking a cabinet rather than trying one blend.

The clause to read twice is who carries the risk above that line. The shop states it is not responsible for lost packages, including where a delivered parcel is stolen from where the carrier left it, and that if the package does not arrive it is the customer who makes the insurance claim. It also reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to decline to re-ship or refund orders where merchandise is not received. Delivery addresses cannot be changed after an order is placed; a wrong address can only be cancelled and refunded before shipment.

On timing, the shop says it tries to get packages to the carrier within three business days of payment, provides tracking on all orders, and is explicit that a tracking number means the label exists rather than that the parcel has moved. It does not guarantee dates, and ties that directly to the fact that the products are made by hand each day.

Returns: 30 days, original packaging, your postage

Returns on Art of the Root oils run on a 30-day window from receipt, which is generous by the standards of handmade goods. The conditions on Art of the Root oils are the usual ones and are applied strictly: the item must be unused, in original condition and in its original packaging, and you need the order number and a reason. Returns are started by email rather than through a portal.

• You pay the return postage, and the original outbound shipping cost is not refunded.
• Tracking must show the parcel reached the shop; the shop does not guarantee it will receive an untracked return.
• Gift cards and some health and personal care items are exempt from returns altogether.
• Refunds go back to the original payment method once the return has been received and inspected.
• Returns go to the shop’s own address in Bedford, Ohio, not to a third-party processor.

For a $9.99 bottle the maths of returning anything is unattractive once postage is counted, which is an argument for the three-oil set over three separate orders, and for asking the shop before buying rather than after.

“Sold as a curio only”: what the shop says about results

Any honest review of this category has to deal with the claims, and the fairest way to do that is to quote the shop, which is more careful than most of its competitors. At the foot of its shipping page it writes:

Due to the nature of how magic works, we cannot guarantee results. All items are sold as a curio only. We are not responsible for any given outcome or result. Please seek out medical care when it comes to any health issue, and seek out professional legal advice for all legal issues.

That is the frame this review adopts as well. Nothing here is a claim that any of the Art of the Root oils produces money, love or protection; what can be checked is the ingredient list, the price, the size, the stock position and the terms, and those are what this piece checks. The Art of the Root oils are scented botanical blends in half-ounce bottles, sold as curios, from a workshop that is open about what it is selling.

One practical consequence is worth stating. Because these products are not sold as cosmetics or as drugs, they are not carrying the labelling a cosmetic would, and a buyer with sensitive skin should treat the published ingredient list as the starting point rather than a full declaration. The US regulator publishes a plain-language fact sheet on small businesses and homemade cosmetics that sets out where those lines fall.

Who the Art of the Root oils suit

• People who want to try the category without committing money. At $9.99 for the standard bottle, and 83 per cent of the line at that price, the cost of being wrong about a blend is small.
• Buyers who read labels. 156 of 160 pages name what is in the bottle, which is more than this corner of retail usually offers.
• Anyone who has been burned by stock-outs elsewhere. Every oil and every candle in the shop was available at the time of writing.
• People building a set rather than buying one bottle, since the bundles are where the only real discount sits, and since a larger basket crosses the $100 insurance and signature line.
• Less of a fit if you need the item on a date, because the shop declines to guarantee delivery timing; if you are outside the United States, since the policies are written around domestic carriers and a US return address; or if you want a guarantee of outcome, which the shop explicitly does not give.

How this review was done

This is a desk review of the Art of the Root oils. Nothing was bought, no bottle was opened and no ritual was performed, so nothing here reports on scent, texture or effect. What it reports is the shop’s own published material: the public product feed for the catalogue counts, prices, availability, SKUs and shipping weights; the collection pages for the groupings; the individual product pages for ingredients and instructions; the shop’s blog for its own buying advice; and the shipping and return policies for the terms. Company statements are attributed to the company. All figures were read on 2 November 2026 and stock, in particular, changes daily.

The short version

Art of the Root is a small maker that behaves like one, and the Art of the Root oils show it in the ways that help a buyer and in a couple that do not. The Art of the Root oils line is deep, consistently priced, documented far better than the price point suggests, and never out of stock. The housekeeping around bottle sizes is untidy, the delivery terms put more risk on the customer than a large retailer would, and the shop is candid that it promises no results at all.

Overall: 4.4 out of 5. If a single bottle is what you want, start with the standard $9.99 range; if you already know you want three or more, compare the set prices first, because that is the only place in this catalogue where buying more actually costs less per bottle.