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On a starlit night long ago, as the story goes, three wise men brought gifts to baby Jesus in a stable. One was gold, the others frankincense and myrrh. Frankincense, like myrrh, was highly prized ...

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Ryan Bambrick poses with some of his frankincense products. Northwest Indiana Trading Co. in Wanatah imports frankincense and myrrh along with other products from around the world.

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Frankincense is the dried sap of trees in the Boswellia genus. "There are about 50 species of these trees," said Ahmed Ali, an honorary research fellow at the University of Cardiff in the U.K.

Frankincense and myrrh are perhaps best known in the United States from the Biblical account of the Three Wise Men, who, it is said, brought them along with gold as gifts to the newborn baby Jesus.

Slowly, frankincense and myrrh began to be exported by traders, from the Middle East. There was much use for these resins across borders, more than just perfuming ancient cities.

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Huber and her team found traces of frankincense in cube-shaped burners used in homes and myrrh in cone-shaped burners placed in graves, as well as traces of an aromatic from Mediterranean Mastic ...

Both frankincense and myrrh are good for things like oral health and skin care, according to Boswellness. you can buy their organic oils, resins, extracts, and hydrosol water online.