How Garden Incense Helps Repel Bugs
When you’re out enjoying the sunny weather with al fresco dining in your garden or entertaining friends with a barbeque, you don’t want your space invaded by curious insects crashing the party, making irritating buzzing noises, biting you or crawling on your food. Discover how our Garden Incense Sticks can help you fend off unwanted bugs from your outdoor dinner table.
How does Garden Incense help repel insects?
Ashleigh & Burwood Garden Incense is scented with essential oils of citronella, rosemary and thyme, each of which helps the fragrance keep insects at bay. Citronella is a widely used insect repellent, often found on outdoor tables at pubs or restaurants. It works by masking scents that insects are attracted to, like your food. With the nearby bugs unable to smell your tasty meal, they’ll be less likely to visit the table.
Rosemary is frequently planted in gardens to help repel insects like flies and mosquitoes. This is because the bugs dislike the strong herbaceously woody smell of rosemary plants and avoid anywhere it’s planted. The rosemary essential oil in Garden Incense release the same scent to similar effect.
Thyme also helps to fend off nearby insects, thanks to natural bug repellent compounds in its essential oil like linalool and alpha-terpinene. Alongside these insect-repellent scents, the aromatic smoke produced by Garden Incense helps deter flying insects from the nearby air.
How to use Garden Incense
Garden Incense is amazingly easy to use, even if you’re a newbie to incense burning.
First, place your Garden Incense firmly in the ground or a plant pot filled with earth. Garden Incense is super-sized for an extended burn time and its large size means it can be pushed directly into the ground or a planter to keep it in place while it burns.
Next, light the tip of the stick, briefly allow the flame to catch, then blow the flame out. Incense smoke will continue to rise from the stick. Each stick will smoke for up to two and a half hours while you enjoy relaxing and socialising outdoors free of irritating insects.
