Ethiopian Myrrh - 4 Ounces - Bulk Incense Resin

If you dont mind grinding it all so you can weed out the 2-plus ounces of tree bark, then this might be ok for you. Once all my resin was crushed (the resin itself was fresh.... almost all of mine was very sticky and gummy), what was left over was probably less than 2 ounces. If you go into it knowing others charge way more than 1 dollar per ounce (based on 4 ounces for 4 dollars), then you can see in the end what your dollars are paying for. Other folks said there was gravel, sand, dirt in theirs.... but I only experienced powdered and grinded bark in my bag. It was no different than nut shells wearing down... just, it was low quality with a lot of filler of useless wood. The wood chips I will throw on the wood burning grill to add fragrance... the shards attached to smaller pieces of wood/bark I grinded down as best I could, and it became a bark/resin inscense. The bark gives the myrrh a woodsey undertone. I grind these together because it will not burn well for you in chunks. The tears (what you probably are after) I grind up to make granules... I do this because it is so wet and sticky, and VERY potent, that I can only burn small amounts at a time. I will grind my frankincense, too.... the two pregrounded/preblended makes it easier to control how much or little the moment calls for. For friends gift bags I mix the crushed myrrh and frankincense together for them... to make sure good balance.If you dont mind 'cracking out' long enough to pick the 1.5 ounces (an estimate based on how much final product visually filled a 4 oz jar) of tears with tweezers (they are very small based on what I got / pebble size.... big ones would have been pea sized.... and then everyone gets one complimentary nickle sized one, too; I guess...) out of 4 ounces of product, then I have advice: do this with your bowl in the sun.... just so that sunlight is in the bowl... it will make your resin sparkle, making it MUCH easier to start recognizing difference between wood and resin.I myself decided I do not like myrrh.... but I cannot deduct stars for that.... it seriously smells like you stuck your nose in a bowl of ground black pepper! LoL.... I am going to try switching to Opoponox... the 'sweet myrrh.' I am not too upset at how little I got of actual resin tears, because it really does just take a itsy bitsy pinch of this stuff. Very potent! The resin I hunted for actually seems quite nice. I am no expert, though.I WILL keep some around, however.... I suffer from sinusitus. Surgeries didnt even help.... started burning this stuff and (Warning.... gross) my sinuses began draining unbelievable amounts of puss! So, I will burn a tiny bit here and there just to help medicinally.So, if you buy this knowing you will be put to work to claim your resin.... and if you know you are buying really only 1.5 worth of resin.... 4 bucks is probably worth it.I bought mine from Atharva.

Until this month I had only ever bought a type that was a light to medium brown color with about 30% being slightly opaque and almost none looked like bark flakes. So I was a little skeptical when I tried finding a cheaper alternative to the store that introduced me to resin incense. This dark brown type seems to be the typical Myrrh you find online and it can be a little off putting if you are used to seeing something else. I mean, compared to the stuff I have been buying it looks like someone freeze dried burnt raisins.But I figured what do I know about how myrrh should look. So I heated some up and did a comparison of the two types. I am really disappointed. Maybe this is just an extremely low grade myrrh and all the actual resin has been sorted out into higher grades after the collection process. Either way there is little that is worth heating up.I'm going to do a quick experiment and try to separate the resin from the plant matter and find the actual percentage of bark to resin. I'll update this when I'm done so you will know what you are paying for, until then do yourself a favor and do not buy this product.That said I have purchased a lot of other resins from this seller and they are all good. So as far as I know this is really the only one you should avoid from this store/seller.

Pure myrrh is a light to dark amber colored semi-translucent resin that turns a bit white on the outside with age. The (less than) 4 oz package I received contained about a half dozen small, pure crystals. The rest was mostly a mixture of sand, grit and bark held together with resin...which is obviously the secondary sap gathered from scrapings that fell around the base of the trees after the pure resin had been harvested. A lot of the chunks were flat, some as large as my thumb, with bits of bark on one side and sand on the other. The stuff smokes copiously, enough to set the smoke detectors off in your house if you put too large a piece on the charcoal...and given that I have 18' ceilings in the great room, that's a LOT of smoke. While the aroma is mild and woodsy, it is probably the lowest grade stuff they could sell and still call it myrrh. I recommend that you look elsewhere...I will.

It is hard to know if it is really ethopian or not but the quality is acceptable. Myrrh fumes bring the astral realms closer to the earth, opening up the spiritual doorway so that the influences attracted by the frankincense may manifest (when it is used together/mixed). In any incense mixture for spiritual purposes, myrrh acts to promote the manifestation of the forces attracted by the other incense blends. By bringing the astral realms closer, it allows motion between them. it is not recommended to burn it alone; unless it is mixed with an elevating incense it is liable to bring negative things to the person using it uncautiously........

Was disappointed with my purchase. I've never bought Myrrh before but judging by the pictures I was expecting to receive a bag of dark amber resin chunks. What I received, however, looked nothing like the pictures. My first thought was someone sold me a bag of crap.....literally. Granted, there were a few resin-type chunks mixed in but there was also sand in the bottom of the bag, a few small sticks, a few rock flakes, what looked to be a couple of strands of animal hair, and a piece of corn. I'm not sure how they harvest the stuff but it looked like they just scraped it off the ground along with whatever else was there too. I'd bought some Frankincense from this seller as well and it was fine but this seems sub-par. I gave it two stars since there were at least a few pieces of resin in the bag and thankfully it was cheap so no big loss but still......corn?