With the way the well-being and aromatherapy, sticks or incense cones popping up everywhere. Beautiful cabinets are offered at low prices. You'll find incense all shapes, all colors and all flavors.
I'm sure you've already seen what kind of boxes. But you know what is up incense and why use it do we?
In fact, natural incense is a mixture of resin (from the tree called frankincense), aromatic powders extracted from various plants, trees and shrubs and essential oils. Are used cinnamon, cloves, myrrh, copal, basil, sandalwood, lavender, artemisia, the storax, etc..
The incense accompany prayers and religious rituals. They represent, in some way how the gods send their message to mankind.
All peoples have used and continue to use incense: Hindus, Indians, Africans, Westerners -
But the incense is more than that. Depending on their composition, they have also therapeutic. Through your nose, you can control your body and your mind. The beneficial substances to penetrate the incense in your brain (the part that runs your emotions), through your nose.
Some natural resins, complimented with essential oils, transform negative emotions into positive emotions. In lighting a stick of incense, you can convert your stress "zenitude, your impatience, patience, kindness in your anger, your sorrow into joy, etc..
The incense also possesses a relaxing and purifying power. It would help to have confidence, focus, reflect, stimulate sexual desire, to think, to balance your energy, to calm the anxiety, etc.. He would purify the atmosphere and according to some beliefs, it wards off evil spirits.
There are different kinds of incense, natural incense that must be heated (on a heat source like a candle) for its gasoline spreads and synthetic incense is burned to power being consumed. These are the most numerous and the most common. They contain over 90% of sawdust and coal, synthetic fragrances and fuel. Nothing but good things which can only be harmful to your health!
Recent studies have also shown that the synthetic incense is carcinogenic. Its vapors are composed of hydrocarbons and benzopyrene, which is the cause of lung cancer in smokers. Suspended particles released from incense are also harmful. They are equivalent to the pollution from transport, incinerators, industrial and domestic heating. With an analysis of the atmosphere of a Buddhist temple, the researchers found it was almost 20 times more polluted than a well frequented crossroads.
Therefore prefer incense 100% Natural, provided they are made with real good natural products. Some plants used may contain insecticides.
Perhaps it is also preferable to fly completely incense seems to have more discomfort than good.