Nowadays, playing with incense is popular, and thread incense should be the most widely used fragrance. Whether it is for incense tasting or worshiping Buddha, thread incense is a good choice. The incense sticks on the market are usually 10 grams or 20 grams per barrel, with prices ranging from a few yuan to several hundred yuan. The quality varies greatly, making it difficult for friends who are new to the incense industry to choose.

Generally speaking, traditional incense is made by mixing sticky powder (natural plant adhesive) and fragrant powder, and the components are all from nature. After burning the incense, no toxic or harmful substances will occur. Its fragrance (sandalwood or agarwood) has the effects of refreshing and calming the mind, inducing calmness, and making people happy. Some low-grade incense is made of cheap sawdust powder with low oil content, together with essence, industrial nitrate as combustion promoter, and chemical adhesive. After being ignited, harmful substances will occur to human body, which is harmful!

Here are a few simple and easy methods to distinguish whether incense is made from pure natural substances, for fragrance enthusiasts to refer to:

1. Are chemical essence added?

The scent of chemical essence is added, and the taste is very strong when you smell it. Opening the incense burner, a strong aroma hits the nose, and after burning, the explosive power of the fragrance is often very strong. This kind of string fragrance should be taken seriously. In fact, high-quality red clay and Yazhuang incense have a faint or even odorless taste when smelled, and only release their fragrance after burning.

Now there are many essence on the market. Some essence still smell good, some are fresh, some are full-bodied, and all kinds of flavor types are available. When added to the fragrance, sometimes a sweet and fragrant taste like natural agarwood will occur. However, unlike natural agarwood, which has a sweet aftertaste and produces saliva in the mouth, it will dry the throat and tongue, just like a lot of monosodium glutamate in the dish. It tastes fresh, but it will dry after eating, and the aftertaste is not good. You should also pay attention to this kind of incense.

2. Do you want to add a combustion enhancer?

The addition of chemical accelerants to the incense scent has a distinct feature, which is that the incense head is very prickly when lit, and it is not easy to stop when touched by other objects. Pure natural string fragrance, quietly traced by fingers over the lit incense head, feels hot but does not prick hands. If the incense head quietly touches another object (such as a piece of wood), the fragrance will soon stop.

3. Have other impurities such as chemical adhesives been added?

Take a section of incense or a little powder and place it in an electric incense burner at a slightly higher temperature of about 180-200 degrees. If it is a pure natural incense, the fragrance will gradually be announced, and the different changes in the initial, middle, and final rhymes can be distinguished, which is similar to normal incense. But if it is cheap sawdust powder plus essence, it will feel very explosive, and there will be a very strong fragrance once it is put on the stove. But the fragrance will fade away and become weaker and weaker as time goes by, and the fragrance will not change at all. This is basically the fragrance made by cheap powder plus essence.

If the temperature is adjusted to 220 degrees Celsius, the increased string fragrance will explode and emit a pungent sour odor, which is due to the addition of other chemicals.

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