How to Burn Palo Santo and How to Light it Correctly

How to Light and Burn Palo Santo Correctly

After explaining the uses and properties of palo santo, let's focus on how to burn palo santo. Let's see together the correct lighting technique and how to keep it lit while preserving the quality of the resins and essential oils it contains, and consequently the scent and aromaticity of the palo santo wood.

First of all, let's explain why palo santo sticks have a specific size. You may have noticed that palo santo sticks almost always have more or less the same length and thickness. These dimensions of the wood make it easy to light the palo santo and - most importantly - facilitate the preservation of the wood and essential oils and resins contained in it. If we had excessively large palo santo woods, we would need a larger flame to burn the palo santo, risking to affect the quality of the wood and consequently ruining its scent and aroma.

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How to Light Palo Santo Correctly

To light the palo santo in the best way, it is important to keep in mind that the wood - which contains essential oils and resins capable of releasing the characteristic scent of palo santo - must be protected as much as possible, without subjecting it to excessive sources of fire. We should never char the palo santo, in fact, because the palo santo wood burns through embers and not through flames. To ensure this, we must use the flame in a balanced way.

How to Light Palo Santo and Keep It Lit

1. To light the palo santo wood, equip yourself with a flame - a lighter works great - not too powerful.
2. Then bring the flame to one end of the palo santo and let it start burning gently.
3. Keep the flame in contact with the palo santo stick for about thirty seconds, then move it away.
4. After that, blow on the palo santo to extinguish the flame and let the white smoke spread.

To burn the palo santo in the best way, keeping it lit and never charring the wood, it is important to use the flame in a non-excessive way. Blowing on the burning palo santo embers will allow you to keep it active and continue to fill the room with its characteristic scent.

After two or three minutes of your palo santo incense being lit, you should have achieved the desired result, and then you can let the palo santo burn out letting it emit the last breaths of white smoke.

Once completely extinguished, store it in a fireproof container so that you can reuse it.

In fact, compared to normal incense, palo santo can be reused several times after being lit for the first time.

In conclusion, it is important to remember that to light the palo santo, it is sufficient to create a small ember and feed it gradually by blowing gently. The smoke of the palo santo should come out white. If it comes out black, we are burning an excessive amount of essential oils and charring the wood, thus affecting its aromaticity and scent.

Alternatively, you can also purchase palo santo essential oil.

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