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Super Makko is a careful blend of ingredients to bind your incense (like a glue) but also to enhance the scent and the burning properties of your incense as well. When you open the bag, the first thing you will smell is a strong scent of Calamus, but don’t let that fool you! The blend smells very different when burning. It has a subtle, pleasant, scent of its own that will fade into the background when you add your own herbs, resins, and fragrant woods. Super Makko is both a binder (to hold your incense together) and a base (to help it burn), but I still recommend adding additional base materials that compliment your blend.
This type of cedar is sometimes called “white cedar” or “yellow cedar”. It makes a fragrant base material for incense and can even by used as a stand-alone aromatic. Just add 1/8 teaspoon of gum binder to 2 tablespoons of cedar powder, mix well, and add about a tablespoon of water. Knead the mixture for 4 —5 minutes. You can then break off pieces of this incense “clay” and shape it into sticks, cones, or any other form you’d like. This is a good base choice for incense blends that are focused on resins.
This high quality tabu powder is perfect for making masala incense sticks, joss sticks, cones, coils, cylinders, or other shapes. This tabu no ki is pure with no clove or other ingredients added. Although tabu no ki is sometimes called “makko”, true makko contains tabu no ki with other ingredients. This tabu powder is virtually scentless, so it’s perfect for all of your incense making needs!
Whether you are brand new to incense making or you’re an old pro, you’ll love my Magic Makko. This is simply the easiest to use, friendly incense base you’re likely to ever see. It’s actually a very mild incense on its own, but its real purpose is to act as both a base material and a binder for whatever aromatics you’d like to put in your incense. Add your favorite ingredients to a few tablespoons of Magic Makko, add some water, and you will be able to make amazing incense cones, sticks, or whatever form you desire.
Although it has been rumored that this makko is gray because The Incense Dragon includes the ashes of unscrupulous incense vendors whom he has burnt to dust in this magical blend. He, of course, completely denies the rumor and insists that everything he sells is free from any animal products.
Unique Products For You
Whether you use incense for pleasure, meditation, or ritual, the incense you choose says a great deal about you. Many people choose to use incense laden with synthetic chemicals and artificial scents. The Incense Dragon turns his nose up at such unnatural creations!
Incense, and incense charcoals, don't need to contain dangerous chemicals or artificial ingredients. Using the gifts given to us by Nature, we can craft incense that is a natural blessing rather than a petrochemical disaster.
Whether you want to learn about the many ways that incense is made, want to buy kits or materials for making your own incense, or you just want to purchase fine, hand-crafted incense and incense charcoal, The Incense Dragon is here to grant your wishes. The Dragon sells only natural incense and all of the incense with his brand is made in the USA using the finest ingredients from around the world.
Why?
Let's face it. People can walk into shops all over planet Earth and buy inexpensive incense in a thousand different varieties. Grocery stores, convenience stores, and even roadside stands sell incense that anyone can afford. You can buy rolls of cheap charcoal for burning herbal incense in New Age stores from coast to coast. So why have I launched a business to help people make their own incense or to buy natural incense and incense charcoal? Because which incense or charcoal people choose to use really does matter!
For more than 20 years I have endeavored to show people how and why it matters. Most commercial incense products are loaded with synthetic chemicals and low quality ingredients. Many are smelly and release potentially toxic chemicals into people's homes and places of worship. I have been on a quest for decades to bring these issues to the people who buy and use these products. If you are someone who avoids "synthetic" materials in favor of natural ones, if you are someone who uses incense for meditation or spiritual purposes, or if you simply prefer to understand what is in the products that you buy, you are in the right place.
Even if you never make your own incense, just learning about the process will make you a better informed consumer who can avoid materials that are not desired. If you want to know what ingredients are in your incense or incense charcoal, I am here to help you. Many people incorrectly believe that they are allergic to incense because of their reactions to synthetic incense or charcoal ingredients. I hope I can reach such people and give them hope that natural incense and incense charcoal may not give them the same unpleasant results. I believe in a world where our places of worship and meditation are free from smelly or dangerous incense materials. I believe in a world where we honor our deities and each other with the amazing gifts of Nature without the unwanted hazards and pitfalls of synthetic chemistry intruding on natural energies. I hope you do too.