Hand Dipping Technique for Making Incense Sticks

Video Transcript

"Hi! My name is Husam Iddin and on behalf of Expert Village, we are going to go through a demonstration on how to actually dip incense. First of all, you assemble your equipment of course. You need all of your supplies, your DPG which is your oil thinner, your fragrant oil, your incense sticks whether it be charcoal or pulp, you need your plastic bag/container at the end result, you need your table assembled for drying so that the oil can drain off. Preferably you have a screen mat so that when your oil drains off into a container you pour it back into your container so that you don't lose your oil. Now let's quickly go through some steps of dipping incense. First you take your DPG; this is a gallon jug of DPG. You pour it into your container as such. You pour the whole container in. Next you take a quarter pound of fragrance, pour that also into your container and then you take your incense whether it be 8 ounce stick, 11 ounce ; it does not matter or your jumbo stick. You fill your container full of incense and it will flow. You pack it in and each one of these bundles are a 100 sticks. Then after you place it in your container, you let it sit for 3 hours. Sometimes 4 is fine but a minimum of 3 hours. After that period, you drain off the oil. Simple drainage is you take your bucket, you use your rim, you tilt it to the side, all the liquid will come out, cap will be open. You let this drain, when it's completely drained, then you put it on your rack and now your finished product will be after drainage of incense. You will have a complete fragrance of hand dipped incense. On behalf of Expert Village, my name is Husam Iddin and we just demonstrated hand dipped incense making. "