All of our incense is hand-made right here at our shop.  We soak each incense stick for a minimum of 48 hours in high quality fragrance oil.  You can expect to experience SpringHouse Candles incense to be highly fragrant, high quality, fresh and long burning.  

There are two differing types of stick incense to enjoy: charcoal and wood punk.  We make both charcoal incense and wood punk stick incense.  Each has its own unique characteristics which make it wonderful to burn and use.

Wood punk incense is made of sawdust from machilus wood; a kind of hardwood. The sawdust is highly absorbent and retains the high quality fragrance oils.  As you well know, incense has a familiar smell which will take you back to memories long forgotten.  This familiar scent could bring back memories of a tender childhood moment or a dorm room excursion, all depending on your experiences with incense.  Who can forget the smell of patchouli wafting around on a summer day?  This is just one of the many highly fragrant oils used to load our incense with scent.  Some of the fragrance that comes off of a wood punk stick is from the actual wood that is used in making the punk.  These wood punk incense sticks burn approximately 60 - 90 minutes. 

Charcoal incense sticks are made with 100% pure charcoal.  For those who do not enjoy the traditional scent of the wood punk, the charcoal alternative is fabulous.  When you burn a charcoal stick incense you do not smell the familiar wood punk.  These sticks burn approximately 45 - 60 minutes.

This brings us to the question of proper usage for incense sticks.  The common question is, “How do I get the most complete burn for the longest amount of time?”  The answer is simple. 

First, hold the incense stick on the bamboo end.  Next, with a match or lighter, light the tip of the fragrance coated end of the incense and allow the tip to become glowing red with heat and flame.  After you let this flame burn for a few of seconds, extinguish the flame by blowing or fanning to reveal a red glowing end on your incense stick.  This is the indicator that your incense stick is slowly burning and well on its way to dispersing the highest amount of fragrance possible. 

Now you get to take your lit incense and place it in your favorite holder.  Place the incense in a safe, secure place, away from all drapes, clothes and accessories.  We at SpringHouse Candles and Scents want you to have the most pleasurable, safe experience with our incense as possible.  This means responsibly using the highly fragrant incense to its fullest.  We know it would be wonderful to have all your clothes smelling of this wonderful fragrance, but never burn incense inside closets or hang anything above burning incense. Hanging clothing above burning incense is a potential fire hazard.  If you want your clothes to smell wonderful try our perfume oils.  Please, check out our pure perfume oils and make sure to use incense for its intended purposes.