Complete Book of Incense, Oils and Brews, The
Scott Cunningham
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This is a great book for anyone interested in practical activities, with a whole range of things to create, from oils and ointments to inks and powders. Cunningham provides recipes for incense and teas, as well as showing you how to create your own recipe and including a good section on herbal substitutions. A generally useful and easy-to-navigate book.
Incense
Carl Neal
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More specialised than Cunningham’s book, this volume offers a lot of practical advise for making and using incense. Neal covers a range of issues from a brief history, and the forms that incense can come in, through to how to make your own natural incense, avoiding the chemicals which can be found in most ready-to-use incense available on the market today. This book also includes troubleshooting charts, a number of appendicies, a glossary and a short bibliography.