Japanese Incense-Give It a Try

Why choose Japanese Incense? I find Japanese Incense far superior to most commercial stick incense. I believe it starts with the fact that there is no "stick" and the fragrance is as well. The traditional incense starts as high quality wood powders of Sandalwood or either end Aloes wood. Then an array of other pure and natural ingredients such as pure gum resins, herbs, flower blossoms, star anise, frankincense, cinnamon and other spices can be added. The creation of this incense is an extraordinarily delicate process and performed in time honored methods for over 300 years. The method and recipes have been handed down from generation to generation in an unbroken secret oral tradition. The mixtures is carefully combined is thenwill to make a wonderfully well as burning medium. There are a variety of newer formula mixtures that do not contain the fragrant woods just the resins, spices and herbs and other aromatics.

Most other types of incense are formed around a core. The first type has ingredients such as wood powders, resins, herbs and oils are mixed together into a paste, rolled and formed around a bamboo stick. With this method, the smell of the burning bamboo is present. The second method which is far worse, the incense starts as a blank punt, which is what is used to light fireworks. The punt is often manufactured in China or third world countries where its contents can be questionable. This "punt" is then dipped into fragrance oils which can be natural or synthetic or acombination of both. The fragrance oils are cut with a chemical extender such as Dipropylene Glycol DPT-before the punt is soaked in the mixture. Then it is dried and packaged for your pleasure.

To be fAir, there's a handful of the "Bamboo Stick" type incense manufacturers that do produce premium quality goods and there fragrance is delightful. These companies use very high quality ingredients and are carefully formulated as not to contain any artificial fragrance and/or harmful chemicals. This type incense is usually a bit more economical and usually easier to find.

Japanese Incense-Give It a Try

Japanese Incense-Give It a Try

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Japanese Incense-Give It a Try

Japanese Incense-Give It a Try

However, there is still the issue of the burning stick. For the purest, I highly recomMend trying the Japanese type.

Japanese Incense-Give It a Try