Sunday, June 16, 2013

Incense Resin Produces A Wonderful Aroma

By Liliana Mills


In The United States it is common for people who wish to burn some sort of incense to use a stick or a cone. People love the smell that it gives off and they also use them for various other reasons. Some use them for spiritual cleansing as well. One of the best ways however to get a pure scent and really get more bang for your buck is to use pure incense resin instead of the more readily available sticks.

Sometimes it might be a bit more difficult to obtain the resins because they are not sold in all the places that sell the sticks. But if you look hard enough or order it online you can have any of the popular and even the more obscure scents delivered to your door promptly. Once you learn how they are used you might never go back to the sticks again.

The resins are burned using a charcoal disk and a bowl made from metal or ceramic. You need something that will be able to handle the intense heat that will be generated and held for long periods. Once the charcoal disk is burning you place a few crystals of the resin on top and they will soon be melting away.

In the past and even the present they are used for spiritual cleansing and healing. They have been used by various people from all cultures to bless homes and other places and have even been used to treat people of afflictions and sickness. People have associated the smells with that of healing powers and sometimes gods or spirits.

Because of this they have been around for a very long time and are steeped in tradition. Today they are still used for the same reasons by people who like to carry on the old traditions but they are also used for more simple reasons as well. Sometimes people just want a nice smell permeating through their home and this is the best way to get it.

Sure, you can get a smell through an open area using the sticks or cones as well, but with the resins you will get a deeper scent and a smell that lasts a long while after that of the sticks has gone. These are what people who really know what they are doing use and especially because there are more scents available using these types.

Of course you can also tell that the disk is ready by noticing the smoke coming from it. It will start to produce a light white smoke when it is burning and that is a great time to turn it over and check for the red glow of the charcoal burning.

The incense resin that is sold today is much the same as what was produced a thousand years ago. If you order them from Indonesia or Asia and those parts of the word you are assured to get the traditional crystals and they produce the same smells as before. Dragons Breath and Dragons Teeth are but a couple of the names and some have mysterious origins.




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