Alchemy 101: A Resource for Alchemy in Skyrim.

A complete Alchemy guide with recipes and additional information.

Introduction to Alchemy

About Ingredients

Each ingredient has 4 effects, the magnitude and monetary value for each effect can vary and will not be shown in-game.

At first you will not know any effects associated with an herb.

You can discover the first effect by consuming the ingredient (by taking the experimenter perk, you can learn up to all of them this way). However, you will not be able to sell your discoveries if you do this. You can also be severely injured by eating too many poisonous ingredients, especially early on in your play-through.

A more profitable and safer way to discover the effects is to use that ingredient in a potion. Any potions or poisons you create that use an herb's unknown effect will discover that effect on the herb. The resulting potion can be later used or sold for profit.

About Crafting Potions and Poisons

First you find an alchemy crafting table.
(Some mods add other options for crafting such as a carriable pestle and mortar).

The crafting menu will open, allowing you to craft a potion out of 2 or 3 ingredients. Unlike Morrowind, a potion will never fail to be created, unless none of the ingredients share an effect.

Any combination of herbs that share at least 1 effect will create a potion or poison. It is possible to accidentally create 'junk' potions when crafting. Such potions will have both negative and positive effects in the same potion or poison. Junk potions typically sell well as pricing is not based on practicality, but by a value from each effect. Some junk potions can still be viable for use if the negative component is offset by the ease of acquisition for an ingredient combination.

DLC

Each DLC added new ingredients of varying usefulness. Hearthfire added the ability for you to grow certain vanilla ingredients and fish at your homestead, making them much more plentiful for the serious potion maker.

Windstad Manor is the most useful location for the budding alchemist to set up home due to the unique fish hatchery which puts fish and dragonfly ingredients at your fingertips. I recommend getting the greenhouse wing as a fully furnished greenhouse will spawn bees, lunar moths, torchbugs, blue butterflies, and monarch butterflies.

Mods

Mods can change the properties of ingredients, add new ingredients, or change the way alchemy works. It is beyond the scope of this guide to list every change that every mod makes, however, I will be glad to note any major changes from very popular mods.

Unofficial Hearthfire Patch & Unofficial Skyrim Legendery Edition Patch (USLEEP) make a notable change to Salmon Roe, determining that the profit and magnitude values for the ingredient were erroneous, they nerfed the ingredient to bring it in line with other ingredients. With this patch installed, it is no longer an insane money-making and speed levelling ingredient, nor an incredibly long water breathing component.

Other Notes

Salmon Roe is harvested from Salmon, however, the salmon need to be jumping upstream or killed while swimming, a shout will do it. Simply grabbing a swimming Salmon will not gather Roe.

Ravage effects damage both the current and maximum value for health, stamina or magicka.

Maximizing your potions

There are a number of ways that you can increase the strength of your potions and poisons.

Perks

The most obvious is of course by taking perks in the alchemy tree:

• Each rank in the Alchemist perk will increase the strength of the resulting potion by 20% up to 100%.
  
• Physician makes restorative potions 25% stronger.
  
• Benefactor makes potions with positive effects 25% stronger.
  
• Poisoner makes poisons 25% stronger.
  
• Concentrated poison lets your poisons hit a second time, which can result in a big damage increase.
  
• Purity is arguably useful. On the one hand, you can remove negative effects from potions, reducing the cons to certain combinations, On the other hand, losing those effects will de-value certain potion combinations.
  
• Green Thumb wont make your potions any more useful or any more effective, but it will mean less harvesting from the world, possibly saving you time.

Enchanting

The next most common augmentation to alchemy comes through Enchanting.
Once you have unlocked the 'Fortify Alchemy' enchantment, you can place this enchantment on:

• Headgear
  
• Gloves/Bracers
  
• Rings
  
• Necklaces

Mods may add other clothing options, such as cloaks which may or may not be enchantable.
Don't forget to take a drink of a 'Fortify Enchanting' Potion before enchanting. Unlike Oblivion and Morrowind, the efficacy of the enchantment is not limited by the quality of the item you enchant, a dragonscale helm enchants as well as a ragged cap.

Other Effects

One last augment comes from the 'Seeker of Shadows' effect, obtainable through the Dragonborn DLC, this increases the efficacy of all 'stealth' skills by 10% (which includes alchemy).

Glitches

I do not condone the use of glitches in Skyrim, use at your own risk.
Both these glitches are fixed in the 'Unofficial Skyrim Patch' and 'USLEEP'.

There are a few glitches that can be utilized to further augment your potions:
You can equip a Falmer helmet and a circlet at the same time, this allows you to have an extra fortify alchemy enchantment active.

The second glitch can be used to make almost infinitely powerful potions.
In the un-modded game, Fortify Restoration potions also increase the efficacy of 'Fortify Skill' effects, including those from enchantments. Drink a 'Fortify Restoration' potion then equip your alchemy gear, make a new, stronger fortify restoration then remove your gear. Drink the new stronger restoration potion and re-equip your gear. This will allow you to make an even stronger potion. Repeat as many times as desired. You can also make a super-strong fortify enchanting potion while you're there to vastly increase the strength of any new enchantments, allowing you to make stronger fortify alchemy armor.
This glitch can result in super-powered equipment very early in the game, making all skill progression and levelling utterly irrelevant. As such, I prefer not to use this glitch (personally, I use the unofficial patches anyway as they fix a lot of quest bugs).

Useful Recipes - Replenishing Health, Mana, & Stamina

In this section I will list some useful recipes and why I picked those ingredients for each. Ingredients marked with an * are growable.

Name	Effect 1	Effect 2	Ingredient 1	Ingredient 2
Healing Potion	Restore Health	Fortify Health	Blue Mountain Flower*	Wheat*
Regenerate Health	Regenerate Health		Juniper Berries*	Namira's Rot*

Both of these recipes use growable ingredients, making them very abundant.
The healing potion also fortifies health, despite using only 2 ingredients.

Name	Effect 1	Effect 2	Ingredient 1	Ingredient 2
Magicka Potion	Restore Magicka		Creep Cluster*	Red Mountain Flower*
Regenerate Magicka	Regenerate Magicka	Fortify Magicka	Jazbay Grapes*	Salmon Roe
Regenerate Magicka 2	Regenerate Magicka		Salt Pile	Garlic

The Magicka potion is fully growable, making it easy to restock.
The regenerate magicka potion can be made with growable ingredients, assuming you have a fishery for Salmon Roe. There is a minor caveat in that you may be better off using Salmon Roe in levelling or profit if you do not have the unofficial patches installed. If you don't mind losing the fortify magicka component, you can swap a component out for salt or garlic, neither are growable, but they are plentiful.

Name	Effect 1	Ingredient 1	Ingredient 2
Stamina Potion	Restore Stamina	Purple Mountain Flower*	Torchbug Thorax
Stamina Potion 2	Restore Stamina	Purple Mountain Flower*	Bee
Regenerate Stamina	Regenerate Stamina	Scaly Pholiota*	Mora Tapinella*

The only growable ingredient that restores stamina is Purple Mountain Flower. Other ingredients, such as bees, torchbugs and histcarp can be acquired if you have a fully furnished greenhouse or a fish hatchery. Due to no ingredient appearing on both the Regenerate Stamina List and the Fortify Stamina List, we cannot combine the two effects into one potion with the 3 ingredient limit that Skyrim imposes on us.

You could combine a fortify Stamina effect with a restore stamina effect, but you'll end up wasting ingredients as any application of fortify stamina past the first will be useless. Unlike with the health potion you can only get the two effects into one potion with two ingredients if you use Large Antlers, an ingredient you cannot grow and one I always struggle to maintain a supply of. Your experience may vary.

Useful Recipes - Fortifying Attributes

Name	Effect 1	Effect 2	Ingredient 1	Ingredient 2	Ingredient 3
Healing Potion	Restore Health	Fortify Health	Blue Mountain Flower*	Wheat*
Fortify Magicka	Fortify Magicka		Jazbay Grapes*	Red Mountain Flower*
Regenerate and Fortify Magicka	Regenerate Magicka	Fortify Magicka	Jazbay Grapes*	Red Mountain Flower*	Garlic
Fortify Stamina	Fortify Stamina		Lavender*	Garlic

Our healing potion makes a return here since the fortify health or restore health attribute is a free bonus to whichever of the two uses we currently seek. This means more versatility for our carry weight with no additional ingredient cost.
The Fortify Magicka Potion is fully growable, add a piece of garlic to make it both fortify and regenerate. As those two effects last a while, it is less wasteful to combine regenerate and fortify together. It rarely hurts to have both at once, and it would be wasteful to combine either with a restore potion that you may end up chugging multiple times in a short space of time.

Useful Recipes - Fortifying Skills

These recipes are all about bolstering skills. An emphasis is placed on ingredients you can grow, ingredients you can find with a homestead, and ingredients that are common. Hopefully, this will minimize the need to hunt down or buy ingredients. Due to the number of skills here, I will include notes on each recipe in the table.

Name	Notes	Effect 1	Ingredient 1	Ingredient 2
Fortify Barter	Buy for less, sell for More	Fortify Barter	Tundra Cotton*	Dragon's Tongue*
Fortify Destruction	Make your magic more damaging. Although nightshade has a magnitude of 0.8 it seems to be overridden by the ordinary magnitude of Glowng Mushroom	Fortify Destruction	Nightshade*	Glowing Mushroom*
Fortify Enchanting	Make your enchantments stronger. Be aware that this buff lasts only 30 seconds, so be quick. The ingredients can't all be grown, but are commnon, especially with a greenhouse.	Fortify Enchanting	Snowberries*	Blue Butterfly Wing
Fortify Light Armor	Make your light armor more effective. No growable ingredients found.	Fortify Light Armor	Skeever Tail	Luna Moth Wing
Fortify Lockpicking	Make locks easier. Important: The effect of fortify lockping is REVERSED without the official patch 1.3, making it HARDER.	Fortify Lockpicking	Namira's Rot*	Spider Egg
Fortify Lockpicking 2	Make locks easier. Important: The effect of fortify lockping is REVERSED without the official patch 1.3, making it HARDER.	Fortify Lockpicking	Namira's Rot*	Pine Thrush Egg
Fortify Lockpicking 3	Make locks easier. Important: The effect of fortify lockping is REVERSED without the official patch 1.3, making it HARDER.	Fortify Lockpicking	Namira's Rot*	Falmer Ear
Fortify Marksman	Your bows do more damage	Fortify Marksman	Canis Root*	Juniper Berries*
Fortify One-handed	Your one handed weapons deal more damage.	Fortify One-handed	Canis Root*	HangingMoss
Fortify One-handed 2	Your one handed weapons deal more damage.	Fortify One-handed	Canis Root*	Bear Claws
Fortify Pickpocket	Make pickpocketing easier. May do the OPPOSITE due to a bug.	Fortify Pickpocket	Blue Dartwing	Orange Dartwing
Fortify Smithing	Enhancements to armor and weapons are better	Fortify Smithing	Blisterwort*	Glowing Mushroom*
Fortify Sneak	Make you harder to detect. The effect of fortify sneak is REVERSED without the official patch 1.3, making it HARDER to sneak.	Fortify Sneak	Purple Mountain Flower*	Frost Mirriam
Fortify Two-handed	Your two handed weapons deal more damage.	Fortify Two-handed	Fly Amanita*	Dragon's Tongue*
Fortify Restoration	Be aware that the fortify restoration potion glitch has been fixed in the unofficial patches	Fortify Restoration	Cyrodilic Spadetail	AbeceanLongfin
Fortify Restoration 2	Be aware that the fortify restoration potion glitch has been fixed in the unofficial patches	Fortify Restoration	Cyrodilic Spadetail	Salt Pile

Useful Recipes - Damage Resists

Name	Effect 1	Effect 2	Effect 3	Ingredient 1	Ingredient 2	Ingredient 2
Resist Fire	Resist Fire			Snowberries*	Dragon's Tongue*
Resist Frost	Resist Frost			Snowberries*	Purple Mountain Flower*
Resist Fire and Frost	Resist Fire	Resist Frost		Snowberries*	Purple Mountain Flower*	Dragon's Tongue*
Resist Shock	Resist Shock			Snowberries*	Glowing Mushroom*
Resist Fire, Frost and Shock	Resist Fire	Resist Frost	Resist Shock	Snowberries*	Hawk Beak	Dragon's Tongue*
Resist Magic	Resist Magic			Lavender*	Tundra Cotton*
Resist Poison	Resist Poison			Grass Pod*	Thistle Branch*

I usually make some combination resist fire and frost potions, to reduce damage from dragons. I usually make a small amount of seperate resist lightning potions as I require them less often. The majority of lightning damage dealers can be rendered helpless with a paralysis poison, but the same is not true of dragons who will use frost or fire damage until you reach the point where they're a joke. Resisting poison can be useful against creatures like chaurus.

Useful Recipes - Poisons

Name	Notes	Effect 1	Effect 2	Effect 3	Ingredient 1	Ingredient 2	Ingredient 2
Cheap Damage	Cheap and effective damage poison, good for dragons.	Damage Health	Lingering Damage Health		Deathbell*	Imp Stool*	Mora Tapinella*
Quick Damage	Both damage effects occur almost instantly, allowing for big damage in a small amount of time. Good for when a target needs to die suddenly. Subsequent poisons do extra damage.	Damage Health	Ravage Health	Weakness to Poison	Deathbell*	Skeever Tail	Giant Lichen*
Damage over time and Paralyze	Great for crowd situations. The paralysis knocks them out while the lingering damage health will kill them or deal significant damage before they get back up, leaving you free to fight something else.	Lingering Damage Health	Paralysis		Mora Tapinella*	Imp Stool*	Canis Root*
Damage and Slow	Not as useful, but if your target is immune to paralysis, this could find a niche. Helps keep your target away from you.	Damage Health	Slow		Deathbell*	Imp Stool*	Salt Pile
Damage Health and Damage Magicka Regen	Good vs mages. Deal damage and stop their magicka from regenerating.	Damage Health	Damage Magicka Regen		Deathbell*	Nightshade*	Blue Mountain Flower*
Lingering Damage Magicka	Good vs mages, use with the above to quickly force a mage to stop casting.	Lingering Damage Magicka			Wheat*	Purple Mountain Flower*

Note: Though much less common, replacing 'Deathbell' with the fish, 'River Betty', will make the 'Damage Health' effect stronger. River betty does not carry the weakness to poison effect, so it cannot be used with the poisons that require it.

Useful Recipes - Utlity Potions

What follows is a collection of potions that I did not feel fit into any of the previous sections.

Name	Notes	Effect 1	Effect 2	Effect 3	Ingredient 1	Ingredient 2
Fortify Carry Weight	Carry more stuff for 5 minutes. Warning: you will be weaker to magic for 60 seconds	Fortify Carry Weight	Weakness to Magic		Scaly Pholiota*	Creep Cluster*
Fortify Carry Weight 2	Carry more stuff for 5 minutes. Less easy to make than the previous one.	Fortify Carry Weight			Giant's Toe	Creep Cluster*
Invisibility	Much harder to detect. Great for infiltrating and close range sneak attacks. Luna Moth Wing is readily available at night, especially in a greenhouse.	Invisibility.			Luna Moth Wing	Nirnroot
Invisibility 2	Much harder to detect. Vampire dust may be rarer, depending on what you're doing. Also regenerates health.	Invisibility	Regenerate Health		Luna Moth Wing	Vampire Dust
Invisibility 3	Much harder to detect. Chaurus eggs are fairly common but the potion will have a side effect.	Invisibility	Damage Magicka		Luna Moth Wing	Chaurus Eggs
Invisibility 4	Much harder to detect.	Invisibility			Luna Moth Wing	Ice Wraith Teeth
Cure Disease	Cures every disease. Charred Skeever Hide is less common but can be found by harvesting a cooking skeever.	Cure Disease	Restore Stamina	Resist Poison	Mudcrab Chitin	Charred Skeever Hide
Cure Disease 2	Cures every disease. Vampire Dust is available from vampires, which is lucky because they'll often disease you.	Cure Disease			Mudcrab Chitin	Vampire Dust
Cure Disease 3	Cures every disease. If you just want to cure a disease and don't mind giving up the alchemy advancement, you could just 'eat' the hawk feather. Hawk feathers can be difficult to come across in large quantities	Cure Disease			Mudcrab Chitin	Hawk Feathers
Waterbreathing	If you have no better use for Salmon Roe, this is an easy to acquire potion	Waterbreathing			Salmon Roe	Histcarp
Waterbreathing2	Substitute Salmon Roe for Chickens eggs, which are pretty common, if you'd rather use Roe for power-levelling alchemy.	Waterbreathing			Histcarp	Chicken's Egg
Waterbreathing 3	Swimming around outside? Then these may be easier to find.	Waterbreathing			Nordic Barnacle	Histcarp

And Finally some effective levelling potions.

Name	Notes	Effect 1	Effect 2	Ingredient 1	Ingredient 2	Ingredient 3
Fast Levelling / Quick Money	The Unofficial patches make this less effective as they rebalance the values for Salmon Roe.	Waterbreathing	Regenerate Magicka	Salmon Roe	Chicken's Egg	Garlic
Fast Levelling / Quick Money (But Less So)		Fortify Health	Damage Stamina Regen	Giant's Toe	Wheat

Ingredients By Name (A-C)

The following is a list of all vanilla and official DLC ingredients, ordered by name and listed with their effects and mag (magnitude) and val (value) components if those values are abnormal.

Items marked with a * can be grown in Hearthfire homesteads.
Items marked with a † can be acquired from Windstad Manor's fish hatchery.
items marked wirh a ‡ can be found in fully furnished greenhouse wings on a Hearthfire homestead
(Note that I am excluding items that take a long time to respawn as you cannot depend on their presence)

Ingredient	Effect 1	Effect 2	Effect 3	Effect 4
Abecean Longfin†	Weakness to Frost	Fortify Sneak	Weakness to Poison	Fortify Restoration
Ancestor Moth Wing	Damage Stamina	Fortify Conjuration	Damage Magicka Regen	Fortify Enchanting
Ash Creep Cluster	Damage Stamina	Invisibility	Resist Fire	Fortify Destruction
Ash Hopper Jelly	Restore Health	Fortify Light Armor	Resist Shock	Weakness to Frost
Ashen Grass Pod	Resist Fire (1.34xMag)	Weakness to Shock	Fortify Lockpicking	Fortify Sneak
Bear Claws	Restore Stamina	Fortify Health	Fortify One-handed	Damage Magicka Regen
Bee‡	Restore Stamina (0.8xMag)	Ravage Stamina	Regenerate Stamina	Weakness to Shock
Beehive Husk	Resist Poison (0.5xMag)	Fortify Light Armor	Fortify Sneak	Fortify Destruction
Berit's Ashes	Damage Stamina	Resist Fire	Fortify Conjuration	Ravage Stamina
Bleeding Crown*	Weakness to Fire	Fortify Block	Weakness to Poison	Resist Magic
Blisterwort*	Damage Stamina	Frenzy	Restore Health (0.6xMag)	Fortify Smithing
Blue Butterfly Wing‡	Damage Stamina	Fortify Conjuration	Damage Magicka Regen	Fortify Enchanting
Blue Dartwing†	Resist Shock	Fortify Pickpocket	Restore Health	Fear
Blue Mountain Flower*	Restore Health	Fortify Conjuration	Fortify Health	Damage Magicka Regen
Boar Tusk	Fortify Stamina (1.25xMag, 5.9xVal)	Fortify Health (5.9xval)	Fortify Block	Frenzy
Bone Meal	Damage Stamina	Resist Fire	Fortify Conjuration	Ravage Stamina
Briar Heart	Restore Magicka	Fortify Block (0.5xMag)	Paralysis	Fortify Magicka
Burnt Spriggan Wood	Weakness to Fire	Fortify Alteration	Damage Magicka Regen	Slow
Butterfly Wing‡	Restore Health	Fortify Barter	Lingering Damage Stamina	Damage Magicka
Canis Root*	Damage Stamina	Fortify One-handed	Fortify Marksman	Paralysis
Charred Skeever Hide	Restore Stamina	Cure Disease (0.36xVal)	Resist Poison	Restore Health
Chaurus Eggs	Weakness to Poison	Fortify Stamina	Damage Magicka	Invisibility
Chaurus Hunter Antennae	Damage Stamina	Fortify Conjuration	Damage Magicka Regen	Fortify Enchanting
Chicken's Egg	Resist Magic	Damage Magicka Regen	Waterbreathing	Lingering Damage Stamina
Creep Cluster*	Restore Magicka	Damage Stamina Regen	Fortify Carry Weight	Weakness to Magic
Crimson Nirnroot	Damage Health (3xMag)	Damage Stamina (3xMag)	Invisibility	Resist Magic
Cyrodilic Spadetail†	Damage Stamina	Fortify Restoration	Fear	Ravage Health

Ingredients By Name (D-F)

Ingredient	Effect 1	Effect 2	Effect 3	Effect 4
Daedra Heart	Restore Health	Damage Stamina Regen	Damage Magicka	Fear
Deathbell*	Damage Health (1.5xMag)	Ravage Stamina (2.1xVal)	Slow	Weakness to Poison
Dragon's Tongue	Resist Fire	Fortify Barter	Fortify Illusion	Fortify Two-handed
Dwarven Oil	Weakness to Magic	Fortify Illusion	Regenerate Magicka	Restore Magicka
Ectoplasm	Restore Magicka	Fortify Destruction (0.8xMag)	Fortify Magicka	Damage Health
Elves Ear	Restore Magicka	Fortify Marksman	Weakness to Frost	Resist Fire
Emperor Parasol Moss	Damage Health	Fortify Magicka	Regenerate Health	Fortify Two-Handed
Eye of Sabre Cat	Restore Stamina	Ravage Health	Damage Magicka	Restore Health
Falmer Ear	Damage Health	Frenzy	Resist Poison	Fortify Lockpicking
Felsaad Tern Feathers	Restore Health	Foritfy Light Armor	Cure Disease	Resist Magic
Fire Salts	Weakness to Frost	Resist Fire	Restore Magicka	Regenerate Magicka
Fly Amanita*	Resist Fire	Fortify Two-handed	Frenzy	Regenerate Stamina
Frost Mirriam	Resist Frost	Fortify Sneak	Ravage Magicka	Damage Stamina Regen
Frost Salts	Weakness to Fire	Resist Frost	Restore Magicka	Fortify Conjuration

Ingredients By Name (G-I)

Ingredient	Effect 1	Effect 2	Effect 3	Effect 4
Garlic	Resist Poison	Fortify Stamina	Regenerate Magicka	Regenerate Health
Giant Lichen*	Weakness to Shock	Ravage Health	Weakness to Poison	Restore Magicka
Giant's Toe	Damage Stamina	Fortify Health (5.9xVal)	Fortify Carry Weight	Damage Stamina Regen
Gleamblossom	Resist Magic	Fear	Regenerate Health	Paralysis
Glow Dust	Damage Magicka	Damage Magicka Regen	Fortify Destruction	Resist Shock
Glowing Mushroom*	Resist Shock	Fortify Destruction	Fortify Smithing	Fortify Health
Grass Pod*	Resist Poison	Ravage Magicka	Fortify Alteration	Restore Magicka
Hagraven Claw	Resist Magic	Lingering Damage Magicka	Fortify Enchanting	Fortify Barter
Hagraven Feathers	Damage Magicka	Fortify Conjuration	Frenzy	Weakness to Shock
Hanging Moss	Damage Magicka	Fortify Health	Damage Magicka Regen	Fortify One-handed
Hawk Beak	Restore Stamina	Resist Frost	Fortify Carry Weight	Resist Shock
Hawk Feathers	Cure Disease (0.36xVal)	Fortify Light Armor	Fortify One-handed	Fortify Sneak
Hawk's Egg	Resist Magic	Damage Magicka Regen	Waterbreathing	Lingering Damage Stamina
Histcarp†	Restore Stamina	Fortify Magicka	Damage Stamina Regen	Waterbreathing
Honeycomb	Restore Stamina	Fortify Block (0.5xMag)	Fortify Light Armor	Ravage Stamina
Human Flesh	Damage Health	Paralysis	Restore Magicka	Fortify Sneak
Human Heart	Damage Health	Damage Magicka	Damage Magicka Regen	Frenzy
Ice Wraith Teeth	Weakness to Frost	Fortify Heavy Armor	Invisibility	Weakness to Fire
Imp Stool*	Damage Health	Lingering Damage Health	Paralysis	Restore Health (0.6xMag)

Ingredients By Name (J-L)

Ingredient	Effect 1	Effect 2	Effect 3	Effect 4
Jarrin Root	Damage Health (100xMag)	Damage Magicka	Damage Stamina	Damage Magicka Regen
Jazbay Grapes*	Weakness to Magic	Fortify Magicka	Regenerate Magicka	Ravage Health
Juniper Berries*	Weakness to Fire	Fortify Marksman	Regenerate Health	Damage Stamina Regen
Large Antlers	Restore Stamina	Fortify Stamina	Slow	Damage Stamina Regen
Lavender*	Resist Magic	Fortify Stamina	Ravage Magicka	Fortify Conjuration
Luna Moth Wing‡	Damage Magicka	Fortify Light Armor	Regenerate Health	Invisibility

Ingredients By Name (M-O)

Ingredient	Effect 1	Effect 2	Effect 3	Effect 4
Moon Sugar	Weakness to Fire	Resist Frost	Restore Magicka	Regenerate Magicka
Mora Tapinella*	Restore Magicka	Lingering Damage Health	Regenerate Stamina	Fortify Illusion
Mudcrab Chitin	Restore Stamina	Cure Disease	Resist Poison	Resist Fire
Namira's Rot*	Damage Magicka	Fortify Lockpicking	Fear	Regenerate Health
Netch Jelly	Paralysis	Fortify Carry Weight	Restore Stamina (2xMag)	Fear
Nightshade*	Damage Health	Damage Magicka Regen	Lingering Damage Stamina	Fortify Destruction (0.8xMag)
Nirnroot	Damage Health (12.6xVal)	Damage Stamina	Invisibility	Resist Magic
Nordic Barnacle	Damage Magicka	Waterbreathing	Regenerate Health	Fortify Pickpocket
Orange Dartwing†	Restore Stamina	Ravage Magicka	Fortify Pickpocket	Lingering Damage Health

Ingredients By Name (P-R)

Ingredient	Effect 1	Effect 2	Effect 3	Effect 4
Pearl	Restore Stamina	Fortify Block	Restore Magicka	Resist Shock
Pine Thrush Egg	Restore Stamina	Fortify Lockpicking	Weakness to Poison	Resist Shock
Poison Bloom	Damage Health (1.5xMag)	Slow	Fortify Carry Weight	Fear
Powdered Mammoth Tusk	Restore Stamina	Fortify Sneak	Weakness to Fire	Fear
Purple Mountain Flower*	Restore Stamina	Fortify Sneak	Lingering Damage Magicka	Resist Frost
Red Mountain Flower*	Restore Magicka	Ravage Magicka	Fortify Magicka	Damage Health
River Betty†	Damage Health (2.5xMag)	Fortify Alteration	Slow	Fortify Carry Weight
Rock Warbler Egg	Restore Health	Fortify One-handed	Damage Stamina	Weakness to Magic

Ingredients By Name (S-U)

Ingredient	Effect 1	Effect 2	Effect 3	Effect 4
Sabre Cat Tooth	Restore Stamina	Fortify Heavy Armor	Fortify Smithing	Weakness to Poison
Salmon Roe†	Restore Stamina (0.4xMag)	Waterbreathing (15.4xVal)	Fortify Magicka (12.5xMag, 1.05xVal)	Regenerate Magicka
Salt Pile	Weakness to Magic	Fortify Restoration	Slow	Regenerate Magicka
Scaly Pholiota*	Weakness to Magic	Fortify Illusion	Regenerate Stamina	Fortify Carry Weight
Scathecraw	Ravage Health	Ravage Stamina	Ravage Magicka	Lingering Damage Health
Silverside Perch†	Restore Stamina	Damage Stamina Regen	Ravage Health	Resist Frost
Skeever Tail	Damage Stamina Regen	Ravage Health	Damage Health	Fortify Light Armor
Slaughterfish Egg	Resist Poison	Fortify Pickpocket	Lingering Damage Health	Fortify Stamina
Slaughterfish Scales	Resist Frost	Lingering Damage Health	Fortify Heavy Armor	Fortify Block
Small Antlers	Weakness to Poison	Fortify Restoration	Lingering Damage Stamina	Damage Health
SmallPearl	Restore Stamina	Fortify One-handed	Fortify Restoration	Resist Frost
Snowberries*	Resist Fire	Fortify Enchanting	Resist Frost	Resist Shock
Spawn Ash	Ravage Stamina	Resist Fire	Fortify Enchanting	Ravage Magicka
Spider Egg	Damage Stamina	Damage Magicka Regen	Fortify Lockpicking	Fortify Marksman
Spriggan Sap	Damage Magicka Regen	Fortify Enchanting	Fortify Smithing	Fortify Alteration
Swamp Fungal Pod*	Resist Shock	Lingering Damage Magicka	Paralysis	Restore Health
Taproot	Weakness to Magic	Fortify Illusion	Regenerate Magicka	Restore Magicka
Thistle Branch*	Resist Frost	Ravage Stamina	Resist Poison (0.75xMag)	Fortify Heavy Armor
Torchbug Thorax‡	Restore Stamina	Lingering Damage Magicka	Weakness to Magic	Fortify Stamina
Trama Root	Weakness to Shock	Fortify Carry Weight	Damage Magicka	Slow
Troll Fat	Resist Poison	Fortify Two-handed	Frenzy	Damage Health
Tundra Cotton*	Resist Magic	Fortify Magicka	Fortify Block	Fortify Barter

Ingredients By Name (V-Z)

Ingredient	Effect 1	Effect 2	Effect 3	Effect 4
Vampire Dust	Invisibility	Restore Magicka	Regenerate Health	Cure Disease
Void Salts	Weakness to Shock	Resist Magic	Damage Health	Fortify Magicka
Wheat*	Restore Health	Fortify Health	Damage Stamina Regen	Lingering Damage Magicka
White Cap*	Weakness to Frost	Fortify Heavy Armor	Restore Magicka	Ravage Magicka
Wisp Wrappings	Restore Stamina	Fortify Destruction	Fortify Carry Weight	Resist Magic
Yellow Mountain Flower	Resist Poison	Fortify Restoration (1.25xMag)	Fortify Health	Damage Stamina Regen

Ingredients By Effect (A-D)

The following lists all ingredients again, but does so by effect, allowing you to find alternate ingredients.

Effect	Ingredient
Cure Disease	Felsaad Tern Feathers
	Mudcrab Chitin
	Vampire Dust
	Charred Skeever Hide (0.36xVal)
	Hawk Feathers (0.36xVal)
Damage Health	Jarrin Root (100xMag)
	River Betty† (2.5xMag)
	Nirnroot (12.6xVal)
	Crimson Nirnroot (3xMag)
	Deathbell* (1.5xMag)
	Ectoplasm
	Emperor Parasol Moss
	Falmer Ear
	Human Flesh
	Human Heart
	Imp Stool*
	Nightshade*
	Poison Bloom
	Red Mountain Flower*
	Skeever Tail
	Small Antlers
	Troll Fat
	Void Salts
Damage Magicka	Butterfly Wing‡
	Chaurus Eggs
	Daedra Heart
	Eye of Sabre Cat
	Glow Dust
	Hagraven Feathers
	Hanging Moss
	Human Heart
	Jarrin Root
	Luna Moth Wing‡
	Namira's Rot*
	Nordic Barnacle
	Trama Root
Damage Magicka Regen	Ancestor Moth Wing
	Bear Claws
	Blue Butterfly Wing‡
	Blue Mountain Flower*
	Burnt Spirggan Wood
	Chaurus Hunter Antennae
	Chicken's Egg
	Glow Dust
	Hanging Moss
	Hawk's Egg
	Human Heart
	Jarrin Root
	Nightshade*
	Spider Egg
	Spriggan Sap
Damage Stamina	Crimson Nirnroot (3xMag)
	Ancestor Moth Wing
	Ash Creep Cluster
	Berit's Ashes
	Blisterwort*
	Blue Butterfly Wing‡
	Bone Meal
	Canis Root*
	Chaurus Hunter Antennae
	Cyrodilic Spadetail
	Giant's Toe
	Jarrin Root
	Nirnroot
	Rock Warbler Egg
	Spider Egg
Damage Stamina Regen	Creep Cluster*
	Daedra Heart
	Frost Mirriam
	Giant's Toe
	Histcarp†
	Juniper Berries*
	Large Antlers
	Silverside Perch†
	Skeever Tail
	Wheat*
	Yellow Mountain Flower

Ingredients By Effect (F)

Effect	Ingredient
Fear	Blue Dartwing†
	Cyrodilic Spadetail†
	Daedra Heart
	Gleamblossom
	Namira's Rot*
	Netch Jelly
	Poison Bloom
	Powdered Mammoth Tusk
Fortify Alteration	Burnt Spirggan Wood
	Grass Pod*
	River Betty†
	Spriggan Sap
Fortify Barter	Butterfly Wing‡
	Dragon's Tongue*
	Hagraven Claw
	Tundra Cotton*
Fortify Block	Bleeding Crown*
	Boar Tusk
	Pearl
	Slaughterfish Scales
	Tundra Cotton*
	Briar Heart (0.5xMag)
	Honeycomb (0.5xMag)
Fortify Carry Weight	Creep Cluster*
	Giant's Toe
	Hawk Beak
	Netch Jelly
	Poison Bloom
	River Betty†
	Scaly Pholiota*
	Trama Root
	Wisp Wrappings
Fortify Conjuration	Ancestor Moth Wing
	Berit's Ashes
	Blue Butterfly Wing‡
	Blue Mountain Flower*
	Bone Meal
	Chaurus Hunter Antennae
	Frost Salts
	Hagraven Feathers
	Lavender*
Fortify Destruction	Ash Creep Cluster
	Beehive Husk
	Glow Dust
	Glowing Mushroom*
	Wisp Wrappings
	Ectoplasm (0.8xMag)
	Nightshade* (0.8xMag)
Fortify Enchanting	Ancestor Moth Wing
	Blue Butterfly Wing‡
	Chaurus Hunter Antennae
	Hagraven Claw
	Snowberries*
	Spawn Ash
	Spriggan Sap
Fortify Health	Boar Tusk (5.9xVal)
	Giant's Toe (5.9xVal)
	Bear Claws
	Blue Mountain Flower*
	Glowing Mushroom*
	Hanging Moss
	Wheat*
	Yellow Mountain Flower
Fortify Heavy Armor	Ice Wraith Teeth
	Sabre Cat Tooth
	Slaughterfish Scales
	Thistle Branch*
	White Cap*
Fortify Illusion	Dwarven Oil
	Mora Tapinella*
	Scaly Pholiota*
	Taproot
	Dragon's Tongue*
Fortify Light Armor	Ash Hopper Jelly
	Beehive Husk
	Felsaad Tern Feathers
	Hawk Feathers
	Honeycomb
	Luna Moth Wing‡
	Skeever Tail
Fortify Lockpicking	Ashen Grass Pod
	Falmer Ear
	Namira's Rot
	Pine Thrush Egg
	Spider Egg
Fortify Magicka	Salmon Roe† (12.5xMag, 1.05xVal)
	Briar Heart
	Ectoplasm
	Emperor Parasol Moss
	Histcarp†
	Jazbay Grapes*
	Red Mountain Flower*
	Tundra Cotton*
	Void Salts
Fortify Marksman	Canis Root*
	Elves Ear
	Juniper Berries*
	Spider Egg
Fortify One-handed	Bear Claws
	Canis Root*
	Hanging Moss
	Hawk Feathers
	Rock Warbler Egg
	SmallPearl
Fortify Pickpocket	Blue Dartwing†
	Nordic Barnacle
	Orange Dartwing†
	Slaughterfish Egg
Fortify Restoration	Abecean Longfin†
	Cyrodilic Spadetail†
	Salt Pile
	Small Antlers
	SmallPearl
	Yellow Mountain Flower
Fortify Smithing	Blisterwort*
	Glowing Mushroom*
	Sabre Cat Tooth
	Spriggan Sap
Fortify Sneak	Abecean Longfin†
	Ashen Grass Pod
	Beehive Husk
	Frost Mirriam
	Hawk Feathers
	Human Flesh
	Powdered Mammoth Tusk
	Purple Mountain Flower*
Fortify Stamina	Boar Tusk (1.25xMag, 5.9xVal)
	Chaurus Eggs
	Garlic
	Large Antlers
	Lavender*
	Slaughterfish Egg
	Torchbug Thorax‡
Fortify Two-handed	Dragon's Tongue*
	Emperor Parasol Moss
	Fly Amanita*
	Troll Fat
Frenzy	Blisterwort*
	Boar Tusk
	Falmer Ear
	Fly Amanita*
	Hagraven Feathers
	Human Heart
	Troll Fat

Ingredients By Effect (G-P)

Effect	Ingredient
Invisibility	Ash Creep Cluster
	Chaurus Eggs
	Crimson Nirnroot
	Ice Wraith Teeth
	Luna Moth Wing‡
	Nirnroot
	Vampire Dust
Lingering Damage Health	Imp Stool*
	Mora Tapinella*
	Orange Dartwing†
	Scathecraw
	Slaughterfish Egg
	Slaughterfish Scales
Lingering Damage Magicka	Hagraven Claw
	Purple Mountain Flower*
	Swamp Fungal Pod*
	Torchbug Thorax‡
	Wheat*
Lingering Damage Stamina	Butterfly Wing‡
	Chicken's Egg
	Hawk's Egg
	Nightshade*
	Small Antlers
Paralysis	Briar Heart
	Canis Root*
	Gleamblossom
	Human Flesh
	Imp Stool*
	Netch Jelly
	Swamp Fungal Pod*

Ingredients By Effect (R)

Effect	Ingredient
Ravage Health	Cyrodilic Spadetail†
	Eye of Sabre Cat
	Giant Lichen*
	Jazbay Grapes*
	Scathecraw
	Silverside Perch†
	Skeever Tail
Ravage Magicka	Frost Mirriam
	Grass Pod*
	Lavender*
	Orange Dartwing†
	Red Mountain Flower*
	Scathecraw
	Spawn Ash
	White Cap*
Ravage Stamina	Deathbell* (2.1xVal)
	Bee‡
	Berit's Ashes
	Bone Meal
	Honeycomb
	Scathecraw
	Spawn Ash
	Thistle Branch*
Regenerate Health	Emperor Parasol Moss
	Garlic
	Gleamblossom
	Juniper Berries*
	Luna Moth Wing‡
	Namira's Rot*
	Nordic Barnacle
	Vampire Dust
Regenerate Magicka	Dwarven Oil
	Fire Salts
	Garlic
	Jazbay Grapes*
	Moon Sugar
	Salmon Roe†
	Salt Pile
	Taproot
Regenerate Stamina	Bee‡
	Fly Amanita*
	Mora Tapinella*
	Scaly Pholiota*
Resist Fire	Ash Creep Cluster
	Ashen Grass Pod* (1.34xMag)
	Berit's Ashes
	Bone Meal
	Dragon's Tongue*
	Fire Salts
	Fly Amanita*
	Mudcrab Chitin
	Snowberries*
	Elves Ear
	Spawn Ash
Resist Frost	Frost Mirriam
	Frost Salts
	Hawk Beak
	Moon Sugar
	Purple Mountain Flower*
	Silverside Perch†
	Slaughterfish Scales
	SmallPearl
	Snowberries*
	Thistle Branch*
Resist Magic	Bleeding Crown*
	Chicken's Egg
	Crimson Nirnroot
	Felsaad Tern Feathers
	Gleamblossom
	Hagraven Claw
	Hawk's Egg
	Lavender*
	Nirnroot
	Tundra Cotton*
	Void Salts
	Wisp Wrappings
Resist Poison	Charred Skeever Hide
	Falmer Ear
	Garlic
	Grass Pod*
	Mudcrab Chitin
	Slaughterfish Egg
	Troll Fat
	Yellow Mountain Flower
	Beehive Husk (0.5xMag)
	Thistle Branch* (0.75xMag)
Resist Shock	Ash Hopper Jelly
	Blue Dartwing†
	Glow Dust
	Glowing Mushroom*
	Hawk Beak
	Pearl
	Pine Thrush Egg
	Snowberries*
	Swamp Fungal Pod
Restore Health	Ash Hopper Jelly
	Blue Dartwing†
	Blue Mountain Flower*
	Butterfly Wing‡
	Charred Skeever Hide
	Daedra Heart
	Eye of Sabre Cat
	Felsaad Tern Feathers
	Rock Warbler Egg
	Swamp Fungal Pod*
	Wheat*
	Blisterwort* (0.6xMag)
	Imp Stool* (0.6xMag)
Restore Magicka	Briar Heart
	Creep Cluster*
	Dwarven Oil
	Ectoplasm
	Elves Ear
	Fire Salts
	Frost Salts
	Giant Lichen*
	Grass Pod*
	Human Flesh
	Moon Sugar
	Mora Tapinella*
	Pearl
	Red Mountain Flower*
	Taproot
	Vampire Dust
	White Cap*
Restore Stamina	Netch Jelly (2xMag)
	Bear Claws
	Bee‡
	Charred Skeever Hide
	Eye of Sabre Cat
	Hawk Beak
	Histcarp†
	Honeycomb
	Large Antlers
	Mudcrab Chitin
	Orange Dartwing†
	Pearl
	Pine Thrush Egg
	Powdered Mammoth Tusk
	Purple Mountain Flower*
	Sabre Cat Tooth
	Silverside Perch†
	SmallPearl
	Torchbug Thorax‡
	Wisp Wrappings
	Salmon Roe† (0.4xMag)

Ingredients By Effect (S-Z)

Effect	Ingredient
Slow	Burnt Spirggan Wood
	Deathbell*
	Poison Bloom
	River Betty†
	Salt Pile
	Large Antlers
	Trama Root
Waterbreathing	Salmon Roe† (15.4xVal)
	Chicken's Egg
	Hawk's Egg
	Histcarp†
	Nordic Barnacle
Weakness to Fire	Bleeding Crown*
	Burnt Spirggan Wood
	Frost Salts
	Ice Wraith Teeth
	Juniper Berries*
	Moon Sugar
	Powdered Mammoth Tusk
Weakness to Frost	Abecean Longfin†
	Ash Hopper Jelly
	Fire Salts
	Ice Wraith Teeth
	White Cap*
	Elves Ear
Weakness to Magic	Creep Cluster
	Dwarven Oil
	Jazbay Grapes*
	Rock Warbler Egg
	Salt Pile
	Scaly Pholiota*
	Taproot
	Torchbug Thorax‡
Weakness to Poison	Abecean Longfin†
	Bleeding Crown*
	Chaurus Eggs
	Deathbell*
	Giant Lichen*
	Pine Thrush Egg
	Sabre Cat Tooth
	Small Antlers
Weakness to Shock	Ashen Grass Pod
	Bee‡
	Giant Lichen*
	Hagraven Feathers
	Trama Root
	Void Salts

[Gobble Goblin]

Fly Amanita + Dragon's Tongue = Fire resistance + Two handed
Slaughterfish Scales + Thistle Branch = Frost resistance + Heavy armor
For the mage killer knights out there

[Hex]

@The Bert Bandit. Your recipe checks out as better than the hanging moss, bear claw, giants toe recipe I had and have replaced by yours now.

However the Salmon Roe, Chickens Egg, Garlic recipe should still yield about 2.5X the amount of XP.
Though this does depend on no mod being installed that has decided that the value multiplier of Salmon Roe's water breathing effect is wrong.

[The Bert Bandit]

giants toes and wheat are the best way to level up

[Hex]

@Toaster Oven. Resto exploit is under 'Glitches' in the 'Maximizing' section.

[Mr. Transatlantic]

next up how to do the resto exploit

[Sorodon]

Awesome Guide!
This would have been a lifesaver if I would have had this a few years ago. By now I can't play without CACO which unfortunately nullifies all guides. :/
Still I hope this will get more people to use alchemy as its one of the most underestimated things in Skyrim.

[Hex]

@doctor G As you progress through the story, you will come across a variety of books which will offer one of several augmentations to your skills. Look for the one with the 'seeker of shadows' effect.

[Doctor G]

There is a few skill boosters as well, such as the book from the DLC , does not say how to use it do to 100s of youtube vids on it

[Bob]

get the "Wear Circlets with Hoods" mod and you can wear two Alchemy enchanted headpieces.

[Hex]

@NEmergix, thanks!