Benefits of Incense

Benefits of Selling Incense ** Aromatherapy Benefits

Selling Incense and Fragrances

If you are considering the addition of incense in your store there are a few things which will help. The initial cost is not bad and it adds a unique fragrance to your store. Also we hand dip all our fragrances with the highest quality fragrances avalable..

Myself having a retail store for over 10 years now there are several things which I have learned about drawing customers into your store and getting them to come back which is as important as getting them there. One all to many people love the smell of the store, however the most important things are, quality, variety and location of the product are all equality important but if I had to put one above the other I would say quality first and foremost, then location and last but hard to to there is variety.

The benefits of quality brings people back, people may pick up a package of what I call commercial incense or free market incense to get them by but if they know a shop which carries quality they will not return. Astral Sea has had several retailers which started carrying our incense at their local flee market and one story I use often. When he first started carrying our line of bulk incense people said he was over priced so he tried giving a few away, the people loved them and in about the course of a year all the other incense vendors stopped carrying incense because people no longer wanted them. He is now the only vendor selling incense at a market of over 7,00 to 10,000 people per day.

Variety is also a key but the variety you carry is important as well. Select fragrances which apply to the clientele you wish to appeal to, however it does not hurt to have a few fragrances to attract a new line of customers, you never know they might start coming in for other products you carry and that is one of the reason to add incense to your line of products.

Now for the location, for many people incense are a impulse purchase which requires them to be where most everyone passes by. Our incense line is 4' tall by 16' wide right next to the checkout line (picture coming soon) which is over kill for most retailers but as the manufacturer we have to carry them all. For the incense lover, location is only important for them to discover them, once they know you have quality incense they will go straight to them.

Recommendations;  start out with a minimum of 12 to 16 fragrances but as a recommendation 24 fragrances will not hurt, it gives most everyone a choice of something they will like. Place them near the checkout counter or where everyone passes by. Don't be afraid, experiment some the cost is not bad and people will love the smell of your store.

Purchasing our wholesale products will guarantee people will not complain about the fragrance, that is if they love quality.

Thank you and hope this article helped some. Wish to see our 6,000 sq. ft. warehouse before becoming a wholesale customer?

Aromatherapy Benefits

Aromatherapy is the therapeutic use of essential oils from plants. The term was coined in 1928. The food and perfume industries are the largest users of essential and fragrance oils. Essential oils are the odoriferous part of plants. These extracts are distilled and are applied to the body by message, inhaled, used as a compress or inserted into a bodily orifice.

Modern day aromatherapy is one of the fastest growing complementary therapies. Skeptics reject aromatherapy as lacking in scientific basis and for a lack of clinical trials.

The use of incense and oils is in fact ancient. They were widely used by the ancient Egyptians, Native American and others from all over the world. You know one from the stories in the Bible. Have you heard of myrrh? Vases of essential oils were found with Tutankhamen in 1922. They still retained their distinctive fragrance after 3,000 years. Essential oils are commonly mixtures of over 100 different organic compounds.

Aromatherapy is used for a wide range of physical, mental and emotional conditions, including burns, severe bacterial infections, insomnia, depression, hypertension, and arrhythmias (irregular heart beat).  

The basis of the action of aromatherapy is thought to be the same as that of modern pharmacology, but in using smaller doses. The chemical constituents are absorbed into the body, affecting particular physiological processes. Aromatherapy oils are taken into the body via the oral, dermal, rectal, or vaginal routes--or simply by olfaction (smell).

These reasons have been proposed for the administration of aromatherapy in conventional medical settings: relaxation, stress and anxiety relief, pain and discomfort relief; insomnia and restlessness, infections and wound healing, burns, enhanced self image, stimulating immune function, and treatment for constipation.

Essential oils have a well established track record in their action as antimicrobial agents. Alcohols, geraniol, eugenol (which has a long history in dentistry), menthol and citral all have high antibacterial activity.

In summary, aromatherapy is a recent development in alternative/complementary medicine. While aromatic substances and oils have a usage reaching into antiquity, there has been no sound system developed for their use. Until a sound scientific base is ascertained, it is believed that aromatherapy will not take its full place beside the more established complementary health care systems.

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Stevenson, C. "Aromatherapy", pp 137-148, in Fundamentals of Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Miccozi, M. ed. New York: Churchill Livingstone, 1996.

"Its zealots are intense over benefits of incense" Chicago Tribune October 28, 1998

Incense have been used to balances the mind , equalizes the humors and increase Mental Clarity. Working to Purify the air and Astral environment.

Helps Counter negative Emotions, negative Attitude and Confused thoughts and drives out negative influences and entities.

Incense are also used to increase faith , devotion ,peace and Perception.

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