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Not Your Mother's Stick Incense
This high quality stick incense is as natural as it is
possible to make it. I've been using it myself for years but never
put it up on the site because I wasn't sure anyone else would want
it due to the cost. Lately, though, I've noticed more interest in
the better incense, so I decided to risk it. This is an extruded incense - comes out as
a rod - so that it does not have any of the smell of burning bamboo
that is so characteristic of inexpensive incense. Also, it is pure
incense, no fillers and no junk. If regular stick incense leaves
you coughing, you'll really enjoy the delicate, natural scents of
this incense. The sticks last about 20 minutes, and there are 60
to a box as well as a tiny incense holder - just a
grey disk with a hole in
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but it
is actually biodegradable and works very well,
preventing the burning incense from charring anything the little holder is
set on. It's made in Japan
by Shoyeido, which has been making high quality incense used
in Japanese spirituality for 300 years. Yep, it's expensive, but personally,
I love the rich scents - they linger but don't soak into the
furniture like synthetic stick incense fragrance does. There are
two kinds: frankincense and sandalwood. (I discontinued the very
small boxes of incense I was selling because I felt that the formulation
of the aloeswood stick had been changed. It didn't smell as good
anymore. I have added some more