New “Incense Oven” Produces Smoke-free Incense Enjoyment

April 17, 2008 - PRLog -- For those who like incense but hate the smoke, a new incense burner, called the Organo-Leptic Incense Oven, provides all-natural virtually smoke-free incense enjoyment. Exclusive to the website: www.Organo-Leptic.com, The Organo-Leptic Incense Stove was brought to market by Kerry Hughes, M.Sc., Author of The Incense Bible (Haworth Press), one of the first books on incense to focus on natural incense.

The Organo-Leptic Incense Oven is a thick copper bowl that sits atop a copper wire base on top of a beautiful agate slab. A copper olive oil candle sits below the bowl, and is reusable simply by adding olive oil from your kitchen. As the bowl slowly heats up, simply place natural incense resins, like those available at www.Organo-Leptic.com, and enjoy the scent of incense slowly permeating the room without the production of smoke.

“Natural incense is incense like you probably have never encountered.  It consists of the natural plant parts such as resins, bark and leaves, but it is without the synthetic additives that most incense contains these days. Most incense you find in stores are nothing but fragrance dipped onto a sawdust and base that has been glued together. It is nothing like incense is supposed to be, and is the reason it irritates many people. Incense stoves are popular by aficionados of natural incense, such as those who enjoy the Japanese incense ceremony called Koh-Doh, as they burn the incense slow enough that single notes of fragrance can be identified as they are released into the air,” says Kerry Hughes.

Kerry Hughes, M.Sc., is committed to deepening the relationship between plants and people, and part of this process is through telling the stories of plants. www.EthnoPharm.com, her consulting company, promotes plant products and traditional arts that can sustain biodiversity, value traditional knowledge, and help enrich lives and provide income opportunities to rural people. She is also co-author of the new book, The Health Professionals' Guide to Dietary Supplements (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, October 2006), and Botanical Medicines: The Desk Reference for Major Herbal Supplements (Haworth Press). For more information, see: www.Organo-Leptic.com.

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About www.Organo-Leptic.com: Organo-Leptic was started by Kerry Hughes, author of The Incense Bible, out of the desire to provide raw, natural incense. However, Kerry found it was too tempting to also offer other kinds of natural products that she believes in and wants others to enjoy. With her extensive experience in the natural product industries (see www.EthnoPharm.com), she has hand-selected incense, raw chocolates, and other products for your own Organo-Leptic enjoyment.