How to use
Uses of Bakhour
- To perfume the house
- On special occasions like wedding
- To create a romantic atmosphere in bedrooms.
- For welcoming guest and a gesture of hospitality
- Used to boost positive energy and dismiss bad spirits
- Used in commercial shops and stores (especially that’s related to clothes) to attract customers and to enhance their buying experience.
- Used in old medicines.
- It’s used after a meal cooking or cigarettes smoke to quickly discard the bad smells and perfume the place. It also gives your bath (and water) a wonderful smell.
- Bakhour can enhance the mood and motivate creativity.
Bakhour (incense) is not a self-lit substance as Incense sticks. So you will need to use an electrical Incense burner, these burners must get too hot for the Bakhour to burn properly.
Some people ( like me ) find it better to use charcoal to better burn the Bakhour slowly emitting the smoke of fragrance. In this method, burn a charcoal disc till it glows on a pottery (Mabkara), special metal or ceramic incense burner or maybe on a pot or safe anti-burn container/plate. We use either a traditional incense burner (shown here under). There is also some manufactured fast-ignite charcoals that can be bought from markets.
Put a small piece (s) of Bakhour on the lit glowing charcoal
or on the hot plate of the electric incense burner. let the smoke of fragrance fill the air of the place but not too much since this can take much oxygen from the room. The fragrance stays there after the smoke goes away.
Don’t open the windows till the room is saturated with the fragrance carried by the smoke of Bakhour. to perfume the clothes with Bakhour, just expose the cloth directly to the smoke of Bakhour for 3 minutes.
Be careful not to make fire when using charcoal and incense burners at home also it is safe not to burn Bakhour while there is somebody sleeping in place since windows after the room is saturated with the fragrance smoke. Be careful with electric burners right after using it.