Incense | Fatal Conveniences™

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Darin Olien

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🗓️ 1 June 2023

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Burning incense or resins has been a common practice among almost all ancient civilizations in the preservation of tombs, spiritual healing, and ceremonies. But…the commercialization of incense has led to incense no longer being what they once were…

Did you know, incense contains 35% fragrances…and you know what’s hiding under the fragrance label? Chemicals linked to cancer, hormonal imbalances, endocrine disruption, birth defects and reproductive problems.

Plus, burning incense can emit benzene, toluene and other volatile organic compounds deteriorating the environment.

This is only skimming the surface and why we’re about to explore the fatal convenience of incense.

What we discuss:

03:55: What is the history of incense?

05:32: What are my favourite incenses?

06:01: Where does incense come from?

06:33: How are incense made?

07:56: What are the dangers of incense?

09:10: What can you use instead?

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0:00.0	Burning incense or resins is common practice for a very long time, literal societies, generation
0:11.4	after generation ceremonies, ancient civilizations have used incense for tombs and spiritual
0:18.6	healings and ceremonies still to this day.
0:21.9	It's a commercialization now and that's where it goes wrong.
0:26.7	Do you know that incense contains about 35% fragrances now?
0:32.3	It's not the normal fragrances, it's the manufactured kind, hidden under the fragrance
0:38.7	label.
0:39.7	Chemicals that are linked to cancer, hormone imbalances, endocrine disrupting, you get
0:44.4	it, even birth defects, and reproductive problems.
0:48.2	What?
0:49.2	incense?
0:50.2	Yep.
0:51.2	We're going to dive into that.
0:52.2	Also, emits benzines, tollines, and other volatile organic compounds.
0:57.4	That is not good for the air, but there's also simple fixes to help you through this and
1:03.3	maybe you still can have beautiful scent in your air.
1:07.6	This is the skimming the surface of this next amazing fatal convenience so that you can
1:13.7	be free of the fatal part of the convenience.
1:17.4	This is incense.
1:19.8	Before we dive into today's episode, I first want to talk to you about my favorite sponsor
1:26.0	currently, Ferisage.
1:27.4	I'm a huge fan, I'm literally using it right now.
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