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Incense - RESINS & WOOD Not all incense comes in the form of processed sticks or
cones. If you want a more natural way to scent your sacred space, you might want
to try using resins. Resins are hardened and waxy pieces of tree sap or gum,
with the varieties coming from different plants. Aloeswood is known
as "Jinko" in Amber - light - Pinus
succinifera Benzoin Camphor (natural) - Dryobalanops
aromatica Copal White - Bursera
jorullense Gold Copal - Agathis
dammara Dark Copal (a.k.a. black copal or copal negro) - agathis dammara Dragon's Blood Resin (Gold Seal) - Daemonorops draco
Frankincense Resin - Boswellia
sacra Galbanum resin (soft) - Ferula galbaniflua
Gum Arabic – Gum Dammar resin (brown) - Shorea
wiesneri Gum Elemi (soft) - Canarium
commune Gum Mastic resin - Pistacia
lentiscus var. Chia -
imported directly from Labdanum - Cistus
villosus var. creticus Makko (ground) See our "How to Make Incense" page for more
information on Makko Powder. (Coming Soon...) Myrrh Gum Resin - Commiphora
myrrha Opoponax gum resin -
Commiphora opoponax
- Pinon Pine Resin
(soft) Sandalwood Chips - santalum
album Sandarac
gum resin - Tetraclinis
articulata - from Morocco. Storax - storax calamitos All prices are in Australian currency. International buyers — please see currency converter. Weight / Size: Price: Resins rqd: Comes from
the heartwood and roots of the evergreen tree aquilaria
agallocha. Some trees become infected by a
fungus and, as a response to immunity, the tree
produces a resin to ward off the fungus. Powder 7g $4.75 100g $65.50 Camphor - 100% Natural - To
strengthen awareness and in maintaining concentration. Often added to morning
meditation incense mixtures. Powder 20g $4.75 100g $22.75 Copal Negro (Dark) - Has a
strong, mysterious, heavy, balsamic, even mystical fragrance. Carries the
secret energies of the night. It is grounding & connects us to deeper
levels of our inner spirit. Pieces 35g $4.75 100g $13.00 Copal Oro (Golden) - Has a
warming fragrance that opens the soul, stimulating imagination &
intuition. Supports visualization for both artistic & therapeutic
purposes. Has a very strong healing power. Pieces 35g $4.75 100g $13.00 TOS Has a
fragrance similar to an herbal, sweet myrrh. It is
the cleanest & purest of all varieties of copal. Add a piece to love
dollies to represent the heart, or carry a piece as a love drawing amulet. Granules 35g $4.75 100g $13.00 Powder 35g $4.75 100g $13.00 A warm, relaxing
and calming resin. It has been known to stimulate imagination and is good for
use in creative work. Warms & opens the heart, antiseptic, cleanses one's
aura & environment, inspiration, peace, love, memory, eases depression,
mental protection, wisdom. Pieces 8g $4.75 100g $47.50 A warm,
relaxing and calming resin. It has been known to stimulate imagination and is
good for use in creative work. Warms & opens the heart, antiseptic,
cleanses one's aura & environment, inspiration, peace, love, memory,
eases depression, mental protection, wisdom. Pieces 30g $4.75 100g $13.00 Powder 30g $4.75 100g $13.00 Has the
sweet floral fragrance of the Brazilian Amazon. Native people collected it
from the upper forest of the Amazon along the Pieces 12g $4.75 100g $33.50 This
beautifully fragrant blend is an especially prepared mixture of resins and
herbs for your pleasure. Granules 20g $4.75 100g $22.75 Particularly
useful to combat sadness, depression and melancholy. Granules 12g $4.75 100g $33.50 Protects
and is used for cleansing. Especially useful in neutralising negative
energies. Pieces 10g $4.75 100g $45.50 Powder 10g $4.75 100g $45.50 Clarifying
and cleansing with energizing properties. Stimulates mental ability, creates
a spirit of hopefulness and relieves depression. Pieces 8g $4.75 100g $47.50 This
beautifully fragrant blend is an especially prepared mixture of resins and
herbs for your pleasure. Granules 15g $4.75 100g $26.00
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Using Resins
Unlike stick incense, resins do not burn or smoulder on their own. In order to use resins as incense,
you need to use them with charcoal tablets, or some people prefer using Makko Powder.
Charcoal tablets are small, round and usually have an indent in the top,
designed specifically to hold granules of incense (see our store for ::: Charcoal & Accessories). Lighting
a tablet can be tricky, so take care. Touch a match to one edge of the tablet
and make sure to hold on to the opposite side (or even use tweezers). The
surface of the tablet will spark as it lights, and the sparks will move quickly
from one side to the other. Set it down on a heat-proof surface as soon as it
begins to light (see our store for a great range of :•:
Incense HOLDERS & Burners) and allow it to smoulder
for 5-10 minutes before adding the resins. The charcoal will look black and
unlit at first, but do be careful - it is hot! Place a few small pieces of your
resin onto the charcoal and they will start to smoulder.
Resins can produce a lot of smoke, so start with a small piece or two.
Charcoal tablets can be broken into half if you don't need as much.
Resin incense is highly recommended. The scent is more pure and much stronger
than that found in sticks or cones, in addition to it being much more natural.
Resin Incense varieties:
Aloeswood comes from the heartwood and roots of the
evergreen tree aquilaria agallocha. Some trees become infected by a fungus and,
as an immune response, the tree produces a resin to
ward off the fungus. It is this precious resin that has been revered for
thousands of years by many cultures as the most treasured incense ingredient on
Earth!
Ancient Greeks and Egyptians considered amber to be an important healing remedy
against mental illness, fever, stomach problems, throat infections, rheumatism
and much more.
The Greeks called amber the "sun stone" and believed it
connected them to the sun god, creating an atmosphere of renewal and alertness.
In ancient
Benzoin resin has a sweet, balsam like fragrance
resembling vanilla. It does not have a very pleasing aroma by itself but when
mixed with other ingredients, it develops into a wonderful aromatic pleasure.
Long used since antiquity as an incense ingredient by many civilizations. Known in
The natural gum is collected from deep incisions made into the tree trunk; it
hardens on exposure to the air and is collected.
Benzoin is warm, relaxing and calming and as such is
good to use in the evening mixed with sandalwood. It has been known to
stimulate imagination and is good for use in creative work.
From the magnificent camphor trees, which are
considered holy by the Chinese, we are given the gift of the natural
translucent crystals of borneol camphor.
Camphor powder has a smooth, very pleasant cleansing and uplifting fragrance.
Very little is needed to give any incense mixture a fresh, wonderful cleansing
aroma. It is said to strengthen awareness and be helpful in maintaining
concentration. As such, it is often added to morning meditation incense
mixtures.
Fragrant camphor excretes from the camphor trees naturally through cracks in
the trunk and bark. It is also harvested from the fissures that run just under
the bark of the tree.
Warning: For incense use only. Keep out of the
reach of children. Do not take internally. Ingestion can cause severe health
problems - even death!
A wonderfully fresh, soft white copal resin with
delightful bright and lively notes. Cleansing, refreshing and
useful for meditation.
Gold Copal has a gentle, soft and warming fragrance.
To the ancient Mayans, the Divine God of the Earth extracted copal resin from
the Tree of Life and gave it to humans as a gift.
Copal is said to be cleansing and an aid in mental and spiritual endeavours. It opens the soul and stimulates creativity and
imagination.
Night Copal, as it is often called, carries the secret energies of the night.
It is grounding and connects us to deeper levels of our inner spirit.
Black Copal has a strong, mysterious, heavy, balsamic, even mystical fragrance
Dragon's blood resin creates a very strong herbal and spicy fragrance. It is
considered to be cleansing and as such, has been added in small amounts to
Frankincense mixtures used in churches.
Dragon's blood is a deep red, shiny resin used in incense burning. The fruit of
the tree is covered with scales. The resin seeps out between the scales, is
collected, cleansed and then melted.
Dragon's blood resin has been used for thousands of years in
Used throughout the ages to enhance spirituality, mental perception,
meditation, prayer and consciousness, frankincense soothes the spirit as it
slows and deepens breathing.
Galbanum has long been valued for its wonderfully complex green, spicy, woody,
balsam like fragrance.
The Egyptians imported Galbanum resin in vast amounts; it was among their most
treasured incense ingredients.
Galbanum, also called "Mother resin", is discharged from the
roots and lower trunk of this small wild plant. It originally grew in the
Galbanum was often used to relieve tensions due to anxiety and severe
restlessness and to relieve muscle spasms. It was often used during childbirth.
Burnt traditionally to enhance spirituality and for purification purposes. Will purify areas of negativity.
Dammar resin, also known as cat-eye resin, lifts the spirit and brings light to
the darkness of the soul.
Dammar resin is said to be particularly useful to combat sadness, depression
and melancholy.
Elemi produces a bright lemony, woody fragrance with a hint of fennel,
frankincense and grass.
Elemi is known to be clarifying and cleansing with energising
properties. It stimulates mental ability and works well for morning meditation,
tai chi or yoga exercises. It creates a spirit of hopefulness and is said to
relieve depression.
Traditionally, people use elemi with substances that are refreshing and
cleansing such as mastic, lemongrass, and sweet grass.
Gum Mastic is a transparent, lemon-white coloured,
tear-shaped natural resin from the mastic tree, which grows on the southern
part of the
Mastic creates a light, balsam- like, fresh, lemony, gentle fragrance. It is
cleansing, clarifying and mentally refreshing. In ancient
Mastic works well for meditation and reflection, its bright radiant energy is
helpful when you need clarity.
It is also used as a natural and hygienic chewing gum, as well as being
excellent for teeth cleaning and as a medicine for stomach ache, stomach ulcer,
diabetes, cholesterol, etc.
The mastic tree is an evergreen bush that grows up to 20 ft (6m) high. The tree
lives about a hundred years and is fully grown after about 40-50 years. It
starts giving its resin (mastic) when it is 5-6 years old. After about 15
years, it produces from 60 to 400 grams of mastic per year.
Since ancient times, mastic has been used as a natural medicine. A leaf fossil
from a mastic tree has been found dating back six million years. Mastic oil and
other sub products are produced from mastic and are used widely in medicine,
the pharmaceutical industry, dentistry, and industry in general. A recent
research of the
In the
- has fascinated people for many centuries. It is said to reach deep into our
subconscious and bring back memories, pictures, feelings and moods.
Labdanum originates from the rockrose bush, which emits a resinous dark brown
mass from its leaves and twigs. To this day it is still gathered by driving
goats into the thick forests overgrown with labdanum bushes. The goats eat
their fill from the branches and the sticky resin gets stuck on their beards.
When they return, their owners carefully comb the resin out of their beards.
Also used is a rake like instrument with long strips of leather attached to it,
which they drag across the bushes to collect the resin.
Labdanum strengthens the body and provides warmth and sensuality. It is very
grounding.
The fragrance of Labdanum is very complex. This waxy resin produces a balsam-
like, woody, earthy, marshy, smoky, ambergris- like, leathery, flowery, honey-
like, mint- like fragrance with hints of plum or oak moss after a rain.
The Japanese use Labdanum in their Neriko mixtures,
which are used during tea ceremony. Egyptians used it in their Kyphi mixtures and the Hebrews burned it in their temples.
Today the perfume industry uses labdanum to add a note of moss and leather to
its products.
Labdanum is an excellent medium for making fragrant incense pellets.
From Asia, the bark of this tree is ground up and added to incense mixtures as
a natural binder for making incense cones and sticks.
Makko is also used instead of charcoal to burn
incense ingredients. It does not affect the pure natural scents of the other
ingredients.
Makko Base powder - cultivated mainly in
This small scrubby tree from the
Myrrh has been used to improve digestion and boost the immune system. Various
traditions have used it to treat coughs, gum disease, wounds, candida and the treatment of skin diseases.
Myrrh has been used since antiquity to inspire prayer and meditation and to
fortify and revitalize the spirit.
Opoponax, also known as "sweet myrrh"
and "bisabol myrrh", has a
sweet, balsam-like, lavender-like fragrance when used as incense.
King Solomon regarded opoponax as one of the "noblest"
of all gums.
Various cultures used opoponax to guard against
negative influences, strengthen the senses and to increase awareness and
intuition.
Pinon Pine brings a clearing, balsamic bouquet to any
incense mixture. It is also wonderful to burn by itself.
Pinon resin is cleansing, strengthening, warming.
Used by Native American cultures for its spiritual and healing properties.
Wonderfully fragrant yellow sandalwood chips.
Sandalwood produces a warm, sweet, buttery, woody fragrance and has been one of
the most prized incense ingredients for thousands of years.
Early on in
Sandalwood has long been used in Ayurvedic medicine
as a remedy for bladder and kidney infections, inflammations, skin problems,
respiratory problems and many other illnesses.
The fragrance of sandalwood creates a relaxing and harmonising
atmosphere of calm and supports the search for inner peace, reflection and
balance.
Sandarac, also known as avar tree, has a
wonderful warm, light, fruity, balsamic, frankincense-like fragrance.
Sandarac is still used today to make liquor. In
During the days of Jesus, sandarac was known as "gold" and is
considered by some to be the gold gift to the baby Jesus.
Sandarac's warm balsamic fragrance works well in the evenings. It relaxes, calms and eases tension. It is helpful in cases of
insomnia caused by tension or stress.
Sandarac is cleansing, strengthening and clarifying.
Storax produces a warm, balsam-like, sweet, flowery,
intense, feminine and slightly grassy fragrance. It adds a sweet sensual note
to any incense mixture.
Storax is made by boiling the bark of the tree,
pressing it to remove the water, then using alcohol extraction to produce the
pure resin. The resin is then soaked back into the charcoaled bark.PRICE LIST / ORDER FORM
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