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Frankincense DIY Update

Frankincense has a special place in our hearts, as you probably know. And our Omani distillery continues to function, as it has throughout almost the entire pandemic. In fact, we continued to produce our excellent essential oil all the way through Covid with very few interruptions. I have updated the distillery website, and we have more than essential oil!We also have the spent biomass, with boswellic acids, and concentrate. We also have large amounts of hydrosol if you are in Dubai, or O …

New Lilac and Jasmine Pommades!

Delicious and smooth, new and luscious. Our new Pommades are here—lilac and jasmine!Remember, most flowers refuse to be distilled—jasmine and lilac are two of those. While some jasmines, like sambac, grandiflorum and a few others, will accept a hexane or CO2 extraction, jasmine polyanthum is not extracted, to my knowledge, anywhere, using those procedures. But all flowers can be enfleuraged.Why?Well, enfleurage is not really an extraction—it’s a persuasion. Almost every extraction, no mat …

About Our Frankincense Sourcing…..

We received lots of questions involving our sourcing, spurred on by the Vice News video about frankincense sourcing in Somaliland, so let me answer a few of those questions. That video is from Somaliland, with some information from Puntland; it involves corporate sourcing on a huge scale, and the corruption that comes along with it. It’s not about the traditional harvesting practices of frankincense, whether in the Horn of Africa or Arabia. Oman is a different country than Somaliland. It …