White Sage  Salvia apiana

Scent Description: Musky, earthy, strong, herbaceous.

How obtained: Grown and shipped from California

Find it in these blends: White Sage  Blend, Sage Blend, Western Blend, Transcendance Blend, Cocoa-Pine Resin Blend, and more....

Use for: Cleansing, clearing, cleansing/purifying, meditative, enhances memory

Traditional Uses: Both Sagebrush (Artemisia Tridentate) and White Sage (Salvia apiana) have been used for centuries for their cleansing and clearing properties. Native Americans use herbs are used in smudging ceremonies, where the smoke of burning bundles of the herbs are directed around a person or throughout an area to drive out bad spirits, feelings, or influences, and also to keep negative influences from entering the area of a ceremony.

Sagebrush  Artemisia tridentata

Scent Description: Herbaceous aroma with slight underlying fruity notes.

How obtained: Carefully hand-harvested, here, along the Wasatch front

Find it in these blends: Sage Blend, Western Blend, Transcendance Blend, Cocoa-Pine Resin Blend, and more....

Use for: Cleansing, clearing, cleansing/purifying, strengthening, creativity

Attributes: Antiseptic, Antibacterial, Antifungal

Traditional Uses: same as for White Sage (above)

Pine Resin

Scent Description: Sweet, maple-syrupy

How obtained: Carefully hand-harvested, here, along the Wasatch front

Find it in these blends: Western Blend, Transcendance Blend, Cocoa-Pine Resin Blend, and more....

Use for: Creativity, success, fortune, passion, binding and protection. Cleansing, renewing, brings alertness.

Traditional Uses: Traditional and spiritual use of dried plant resins are recorded in the early history of man in Egypt, Babylon, Israel, and the ancient Mayas. Resins have been used for over 4,00 years in spiritual and religious rituals dating back to the time of Babylon. Some molecules found in resin incense have steroid-like structures, similar to that found in testosterone. Pheromones are also known to have steroid-like structures. (I suspect this might have a lot to do with the popularity of resin incense.)

Juniper Tips

Scent Description: Warm, woody-sweet, balsamic, pine-needle like notes

How obtained: Carefully hand-harvested, here, along the Wasatch front

Find it in these blends: Western Blend, Transcendance Blend, and more....

Use for: Cleansing, clearing, cleansing/purifying, strengthening

Attributes: Antiseptic

Traditional Uses: In Himalayan cultures, juniper is used for cleansing during spiritual rituals. Native Americans used juniper incense to greet guests and to support certain ceremonies.