As an incense, white sage is burned to purify people and places, and its use sometimes is accompanied by prayer. Loose leaves often are burned, and a traditional ritual method for smudging the body ...

A new wave of startups is creating clean and sustainable religious and lifestyle aromatherapy products such as incense sticks, particularly targeting the urban consumer. A new wave of Indian ...

JAIPUR: The Japanese have developed a fancy for incense sticks made of cow dung. A large quantity of such organic incense sticks are being exported by a Mumbai-based company to Japan. JAIPUR: The ...

It wasn’t until 2015 that incense making in India changed forever. Traditionally, it involved the hand-rolling of a thick paste made of jigat (gum), wood powder, charcoal and fragrance on sticks made ...

Highlanders of Soe are taking steps to register and certify their incence and cordyceps products as organic, an initiative poised to transform how the community manages and markets its prized natural ...

RANCHI: To keep the water sources clean, the Ramgarh district in Jharkhand has taken up manufacturing of organic ‘gulaal’ and incense sticks with the flowers and ‘belpatra’ offered to Goddess ...