What are some good organic incense brands?
Sep 06, 2010 in
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I just recently found out how non organic incense can release cancer causing toxins in the air so I’m looking for some organic incense.
Also, how organic or toxic are the morning star, blue pearl, nag champa, and superhit brands?
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Tink on September 6, 2010 at 5:38 am
The first three are marsala (sandalwood powder) or charcoal powder (enough said) punk (the bamboo stick) based….basically, you have a stick, roll it in a mixture of powder (and sometimes honey), then dip it in scented oil…and voila, you have incense….
Now, the question becomes….what oils? What powders? and the one that really gets me, is that many Indian incenses are dung based (no kidding)….
So anyhow, the best ones that I have found are Fred Solls (pure resin on a stick as long as you dont try the fruity scents) and Shoyiedo (no stick – sandalwood powder base….made the same way for 300 years and still going)
http://www.fredsoll.com/basket/estore.htm
(I’m a big fan of the frank and myrhh, cedar and dragonsblood varieties – and yes, dragonsblood is a tree resin….)
http://www.shoyeido.com/4DLink/4DCGI/<!–4DVAR%20vTracking–>^/doc/top/store_top.html
(white cloud [Hoku-um] from the daily series, hope in the angel series, and green tea in the Xiang-do series are my favorites)