How to Burn Resin Incense with Bamboo Charcoal

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Essential Oils and Incense: Learn how to burn resin incense with bamboo charcoal. You can buy a beautiful handmade incense bowl here: aromatics.com/products/ceramic-incense-bowl

Bamboo charcoal is so much more natural and healthy than self-igniting charcoal, which contains lighter fluid and other toxic ingredients.

It does take a bit longer to burn resin incense with bamboo charcoal, because the charcoal takes longer to ignite. A smaller-sized tab, which you can see at 0:48, takes over 30 seconds to ignite. There's no spark, but you can see how it looks when ignited at 1:30. (It glows on the end.) A piece this size burns for about half an hour.

Once the bamboo charcoal is ignited, you can put it in a ceramic bowl and sprinkle your resin incense or powder right on top of it (1:55). It’s okay if some incense falls to the side. As long as the incense is touching the bamboo charcoal, it will burn. My incense is homemade with copal and rosemary leaves. I just love that I can add my own ingredients, and even sprinkle essential oils onto the resin!

A bigger tab of bamboo charcoal (seen at 3:23) will burn for about an hour. For this piece of charcoal, I’m using sandalwood powder from India (4:25).

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