How To Make Incense At Home Easily?
For hundreds of years herbs and spices have been used to cover up and eliminate offensive odours in the home. Burning scents like frankincense and myrrh dates back to the ancient Egyptians, and continued through the centuries with sweet spices like cinnamon, cloves, allspice and nutmeg being included.
Burning herbs and spices still has a place in the home: not to mask staleness and bad odours as they did in those dank houses of the past, but to perfume the air with an enjoyable sweetness.
Homemade Incense Recipes #1
Ingredients:
1 tablespoon very fine sawdust
1 tablespoon spice or dried, ground herbs (reduce herb to powder by rubbing through a fine wire sieve)
1 teaspoon gum arabic
Preparation Method:
Thoroughly mix the sawdust with the spice or herb, then add 1 tablespoon of water in which the gum arabic has been dissolved. When all the ingredients are mixed together, shape into cones and allow to dry.
Place cones on small metal dishes, or other suitable objects, and light – the incense will smoulder, filling the room with fragrance.
For more exotic smells, or an aroma that’s a little mysterious, experiment with your own blends by mixing different spices and herbs. Or you might like to try the following mixture. Use 1 tablespoon of this in the Homemade Incense Recipes #1 in place of the spice or dried, ground herbs.
Ingredients:
equal quantities of the freshly crushed cinnamon, crushed allspice, crushed nutmeg, minced vanilla pod, powered dried lemon peel, dried minced lemon verbena, dried minced lavender leaves, dried minced rosemary, few drops rose oil
Preparation Method:
Blend ingredients and add the rose oil a drop at a time until sufficiently scented, but not so that it is overpowering.
Homemade Lavender Intense Sticks Recipes #2
This incense is made from the flower-head stalks.
Ingredients:
1 tablespoon saltpetre
1 cup (250 ml) warm water
dried lavender stems
Preparation Method:
Dissolve the saltpetre (available from the chemist) in the warm water and soak the lavender stems in it for 30 minutes. Dry out and light for a slow smouldering scent.
Experiment with other herb stems, using only the wood on which the new season’s growth appears.
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