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Tree resins come with varying amounts of water-soluble gum content. Beyond the temperature-reducing aspect innate to resins in combustible incense, these gums can further affect how much of a given resin you can include in a build. As anyone who has burned resins on charcoal can attest, with resins high in gum content, the burning gum can introduce off-notes. Gums also serve as binders in incense sticks; while a little is helpful for producing a performant dough that extrudes well and a more rigid, break-resistant incense stick, too much can prevent combustible incense from remaining lit.
Plant resins come with varying amounts of water-soluble gum content. Beyond the temperature-reducing aspect innate to resins in combustible incense, these gums can further affect how much of a given resin you can include in a build. As anyone who has burned resins on charcoal can attest, with resins high in gum content, the burning gum can introduce off-notes. Gums also serve as binders in incense sticks; while a little is helpful for producing a performant dough that extrudes well and a more rigid, break-resistant incense stick, too much can prevent combustible incense from remaining lit.
Naturally, I've been curious for some time as to how dissolving and discarding resin gums might impact the performance of a resin in combustible incense. Given all of the considerations I mentioned earlier, using resin in combustible incense is trickier than you might at first imagine, yet incense artisans like Yi-Xin manage to produce [very clean sticks](https://craft-incense.com/products/white-magic) using resins with a high gum content. Could dissolving the gum be the answer? When a fellow member of an incense chat group mentioned this type of processing, she unknowingly gave me the final push I needed to give it a go.