NATURAL CHOICE WAY
At Natural Choice we simply make our agarbatties in a different way. In our process we firstly select the finest raw ingredients that would include spices, herbs, resins, fragrant woods, flower petals to name a few. These ingredients are then ground into a powder form and mixed with honey and aromatic oils to make a dough like mixture "atta". This pliable dough is then roll onto a plain bamboo stick and coated with aromatic wood powder so that the wet sticks do not stick to each other. This is a traditional method which dates back hundreds of years and we are keeping that tradition alive.

DIPPED SCENTED CHEMICAL BATTI (98% of batthi are made this way - NOT NATURAL CHOICE)
This second type of incense was developed as the modern “short-cut” method making agarbatties. The stick actually begins with an “unscented RAW BATTI” which is sawdust and or charcoal powder mixed with a binding agent and formed onto to a bamboo stick (these sticks were originally made to light fire crackers). Usually these raw batti come from factories in China and Vietnam that produce these sticks by the ton. The next step is to mix the fragrance oil with a diluting chemical. This is the main problem with this type of poor quality stick. In order to distribute the costly ingredient that is fragrance oil evenly over thousand of sticks, you have to find a cheap way to increase the “volume” of your fragrance oil in order to coat the unscented raw batti. The solution that most incense makers use is a diluting chemical such as diethyl phthalate (DEP) at about 90%, mixed with about 10% fragrance oil to increase the volume of the fragrance oil. Now the unscented raw batti is literally “dipped” in this chemical to produce a scented or dipped agarbatti stick. The problem of this type of stick is that you are burning about 70% chemical oil with a small amount of fragrance. This chemical DEP is very toxic was and NEVER DESIGNED TO BE BURNED thus gives the user headaches, makes eyes water and even breathing problems. THIS IS HOW 98% OF THE AGARBATTI IN INDIA ARE MADE !!!

Many European countries have even BANNED these chemical batti, but in India the chemical batti is what most people are using.

Now you have a better understanding of what goes into making a NATURAL CHOICE agarbatthi and a DIPPED SCENTED batti.
For the health of your family, you decide what would you prefer to use, Natural Choice batti or a chemical dipped batti?