How to Make Incense With Essential Oil
- 1). Prepare the incense recipe. Follow the recipe when measuring out ingredients. If you are grinding any ingredients, be sure to wait until after grinding before measuring them out.
- 2). Grind the herbs in the order of their smell, using a mortal and pestle or coffee grinder. Incense has top, middle and base notes. You typically smell the lightest scents, or top notes, first. Grind any light scented herbs first. Base notes consist of the strongest scents, such as musks. Grind any strongly scented herb last. Middle notes are strong but not overpowering. An example of a middle note would be vanilla or rose.
- 3). Place each ingredient into the gallon-sized Ziploc bag. Shake well.
- 4). Add the essential oils to the dry ingredients using an eye dropper. A few drops of each oil is all that is needed. Mix the oils thoroughly with the ground herbs. Be sure to mix up any dark spots and break up and balls that may have formed.
- 5). Add the base oil to the mixture, once it smells as you want it to. Add the base oil in small amounts. Be careful not to make the incense wet. Add the base oil until the mixture is tacky.
- 6). Form the incense into small, cone shapes.
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