In the past incense meant patchouli and sandalwood. Now, with
the increased popularity of candle fragrance, incense flavors are changing.
Your customers will love French Vanilla, Lavender, Plumeria, Apple Jack
& Spice, and all the other wonderful candle fragrances if you make them
available in incense too! For your convenience we have an Incense
Making Kit with all the supplies you need!
Supplies: All supplies used in this project are available on our incense
product page.
- Incense
Blending Oil
- Incense
Sticks: Natural or Colored
- A Great Fragrance
- Glass
Dropper
- Bottle
& lid for mixing fragrance with blending oil
- Tall
Jar or Tray
- Packaging
Bags
100%
fragrance oil is too strong for the incense, and will make very smokey
incense! You should blend it with other oil. Use our incense blending
oil to mix with your candle fragrance oils - 2-3 parts blending oil
to 1 part fragrance oil. Just shake in a bottle or stir well. Do
not use alcohol in place of blending oil.
There are
3 ways to saturate your incense sticks.You can soak the sticks in a
tall narrow container; you can lay them in a tray such as a utencil
drawer organizer, and soak them in oil; or you can lay the sticks in
a long container and then use an eye dropper to saturate the stick while
turning it to coat all sides.
After soaking/saturating
your incense, you will need to allow them to dry for at least 48 hours.
You may want to suspend the incense sticks over a jar to catch the fragrance
drippings into a container for use again. They will be ready to burn
and/or sell after drying for 2 days. You can use a fan to speed up the
drying process, or lay the sticks in the sun. Do
not place incense sticks in an oven.
These are
great for selling at your shows or flea markets. You can pre-package
them and tie a ribbon around them, or you can stand incense in jars
and let your customers choose and bag their choice flavors. Pre-packaged
incense is usually packaged in bags of 8, and sell for $1 or more per
bag. That's a great profit for you, and allows you to offer bulk buys
of 100 sticks or more to customers!
For a professional
"store" look, design a label and print on Avery business card stock.
Then just tear labels and fold over the top of your incense bag and
staple. Then you can punch a hole in the label and hang on a display
rack.
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