I'm not an expert, but got lowkey nerdy in pine pollen. It's very interesting subject on its own like this was. But when they release the pollen (yellow powder) will of course fly to the pine cone that are sticky. But the pollen that don't hit goal ends up on the forest floor and works as a very powerful fertilizer for all the other plants in the forest. I'm constantly amazed how pine is such a gift for nature. Most people just look at it as firewood or building material though...
Pine sap draws out insect venom in bites. This is something that I learned a long time ago by an elder. I used it to draw out brown recluse spider venom on a friend's leg. Healed in 3 days.
This right here is why I love the community that social media creates; I may never have learned this fact without your comment. As someone that loves bushcraft and learning about primitive (I trust it more than modern pharma haha) medicine and first aid this is fascinating. Thank you so much for sharing ♥ 🌲
There is more to it than just the sap. This will sound gross but it works. You need to mix your saliva with it then put on the cleaned bite and cover with a bandaid at least 12 hours. Then reapply and redress. You will see a major change.
Doesn't sound gross, it's the same with stinging nettle, gotta chew them herbs first 😁 thank you, I'm going to look into this more, I'd like to add it to a video I'm making if that's ok? I want to talk about all the different uses for the pine/spruce resin and sap. ♥
Awww thank you! We're glad that comes across in our videos. We adore nature and want to live alongside it and learn its wisdom ♥ good luck, no doubt you'll find some soon 😁
It's where we're meant to be, we're just monkeys with smartphones really. Nothing makes me feel more at peace than a woodland walk :) I hope you can find more time to be in the woods soon, Seth 💚
Love it! An incredible fact about pine resin is that it’s a natural reproductive strategies of pines.. they literally produce it to become inflammable, increasing the possibility of a destructive fire for the habitat thus their seeds can easily germinate and grow…
In Mississippi, USA here. I LOVE the smell of pine, fir, and cedar! I never thought of using this sap or resin as an incense until I saw your video, thank you! I’m always purchasing and burning frankincense and myrrh in my house. Now, I’ll start trying to find some Sap or resin from our local pine trees, which we have millions of, around here!
Aw I encourage you to try it, it's such a fantastic scent, similar to frankincense in that it's a very warm and comforting fragrance. Much more economical and environmentally positive too. Plus you get to go and explore in the woods, it's a win-win 😁
Oh wow! Thank you so much for this. Pine is my favourite tree and I’ve been absolutely obsessed with the smell of that sticky resin since the very first time I accidentally got it all over myself. Everything you said about how it’s more than just a smell and how it does something to your soul, I know exactly what you mean! It’s incredibly grounding and evokes something deep within you. A sort of remembrance from times long long ago. I can’t describe it, but it’s like my soul is so familiar with the scent, so familiar with it and so comforted by it. She truly is one of nature’s many blessings. I always say if I could bottle it I’d wear it as a perfume and now I’ve just found out I can gather the resin and burn it as an incense! I’m so excited I can’t wait to do it! Thank you so much. Great video and so respectful to the beautiful pine 🌲 Much love to you 💕
Thank you for your beautiful comment ♥ Couldn't agree more, I think it taps into the caveman/cavewoman inside of us all, a real primal comfort that we've likely experienced for thousands of years as we gathered around campfires ☺ I have actually got a perfume in which I included some pine resin. It's a mix of frakensense, pine resin, pine needle oil and cinnamon. It's such beautiful scent. I hope you're home smells like a pine forest soon and it brings you the same level of peace that it brings me, I'm sure it will ♥ 🌲
I can absolutely vouch for every word said here! I had the pleasure of experiencing this with Matty and Lisa in Bruce for myself, the smell was indescribably beautiful and so relaxing. Highly recommend! 👌💚
travelling in a van , i don't suggest burning on a spoon .. incase you get stopped by police and they want to search further lol! good video and thanks for sharing :D
Incensole Acetate which is one of the terpenes in Frankincense (no reason to suspect it's not also present in pine resin) has been shown to be an antianxiety and antidepressant psychoactive substance.
That's what inspired me to try spruce resin, I adore Frankinsense but liked the idea of having something I can forage at home. Both wonderful, grounding scents. Thanks for the knowledge bomb 💣 🙏
i haven't got a van (sadly) but i live in small upstairs apartment and this wood be awesome for my anxious household and it connects you directly to nature. love it
It's amazing where a person can find pine trees. I'm in an urban area, and sometimes I find it in parks and other plantings. Definitely want to make a test burn, though. Thanks for the post!
It's too small to light the candle in the holder and to put it in lit it's quite the angle and burns your fingers. So always found it easier to just drop it in 🤷♂️
Very nicely done - thanks guys! I'm a bushcrafter + psychologist (thanks, youtube algorithm), but I react badly to artificial odours and most perfumes. Gonna try this in the practice and then check the vibe...
Living in the southern Baja peninsula i would go out and harvest resin from the Copal trees, more like bushes actually. This resin is a fabulous incense. Check it out next time you go to Mexico!
Awesome. Like the cozy warming fire in the woodlands camping, using dry pine and other fat wood trees as fuel. Love it and always makes me calm and blissful. Will try this for sure. Will be able to smell the pine fragrance chillin in the crib too❤🔥🙏good luck on your journey
It's exactly that, that entire scent captured and brought into your home, it's absolutely lush and to this day my favourite scent. Just be careful with how flammable it is of course. And you 🙏 ♥
I fav is Pinon pine resin. I like it because I purchase it already refined - debris free. It doesn't have a "Christmas tree" scent but more of a musky raw tree odor. I make mustache wax, balm and even soap from this resin. The soap was so amazing....much better than Grandpa's Pine Tar Soap.
Ooh that sounds lush! Do you sell on etsy? ☺ We'd encourage you to harvest your own sometime, perhaps not for using in soap etc because of all the debris but just to smell it straight from there tree, when refined the resins actually lose some of their scent through the heating process ♥ thanks for watching and commenting 🤗
I collected some pine resin today I had a few clunks that came out a dark blood orange color and some came out whitish clear color I haven't tried them yet but can't wait to try the resin.
Oooh sounds lovely. We'd recommend always keeping them separate as they can have different aromas and it's nice being able to pick and choose. Plus they can sometimes smell a bit cheesy if the tree has been infected 🧀 😂
I just picked some, used a mint tin and filled it half way with rock solid white crystal resin. Ill play around with burning methods, 33mm coal puck, oil burner like yours or melt and dip sage in it.
Interesting ...thanks 👍I have been burning green hojari sacra frankincense, benzoin Sumatra and copal in my garden for years while i work. I will have to try this one. Smell is something that can really make you feel comfortable calm and relaxed ect etc. Like grandma baking during Christmas 🤗
Mmmm good choices of fragrance 😍 It does doesn't it? I find smell is often the most nostalgic sence, it's usually a fragrance that takes me back to a place from the past ♥
@@TheWoodlandNomad Actually, unfortunately, one of our neighbors cut down one of their pines yesterday and I asked to go through the heartwood to get some pitch. Worked quite well and now the Spirit of that tree can have a further life, even though I think they didn't need to cut her down.
Poor tree. Too many trees see felled for cosmetic reasons, not saying that's why they cut it down but I'd love and nurture every tree in my garden if I had one. Are you based in the UK?
I've got a piece of resin from a huge fallen pine, and I hold it with equal reverence as you display with yours. It's quite a dark amber in color, almost brown, possibly it's aged, but my gods the smell off that is next level. I burn it sparingly and will probably have the rock for decades haha
This was absolutely fascinating!!! Thank you so much for this video, I had no idea about this so we're going to give this a go when we're next out. I want to know what it smells like! 😍
So I have watched this video b4 several months ago. But..... today I, for some reason, decided to collect some. I got some a week or two ago also and they were orange 🍊. Today,,,,,, I got some very interesting different kinds Some looked Old and like the resin was covered in bark almost like the tree had stabbed and then grew new skin over the resin. NOTE: I BELIEVE that tree was severely wounded in the past and as I pulled this off it looked healed underneath. I don't know for sure but it was an interesting haul from the forestall now I am watching vids about refining it and its purposes andnhere you are again. Watching for a 2nd time
Hope you had a nice time in the woods collecting ☺ That's how you find the best stuff, those wounds that are really old, the resin is lovely and firm and the tree is healed up nicely so easier to collect and better leaving the trees with the younger wounds to heal ♥ Hope they refining went well, can be dangerous stuff when cooked down, like hot, spitty tar. But a fascinating substance with many uses especially in bushcraft 😁
I found the video so interesting 👍What is the name of the particular pine tree that you took the resin from? Just seen your reply from further down. Its a Spruce. Far more common near where I am. Next time out collecting kindling, I'll get me some resin as well. Super video.
Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed my video 😁 It's actually a spruce tree, I believe it was a Sitka Spruce plantation if I remember correctly. But all UK pine and spruce are suitable. The only exception I know of is a pine tree in the U.S which is toxic. Hope you find some, I'm sure you will ☺
Glad you enjoyed it 😁 You can collect all year round. Some of it can be softer and sticker on a hot summers day but it makes no difference to the quality. Also, the proper resin will be firm in all weathers ☺
Very interesting I've never seen white pine risen before. All the pine trees in my area look really different, the bark is different. They all produce this amber color resin. When the bits with a little bark inside the resin smells even better. But in the park near me it's super abundant. Can find pieces on the ground near the base of the tree. Ive been using it to help my bronchitis, believe it or not the smoke soothes my cough, throat and bronchi tubes. I guess you would call it. Making it feel not so dry.
Aw lovely, sounds like you've got an abundance of lovely pine resin around you 😁 It's hard to find research papers about it's medicinal effects when breathed in but I'm not surprised all the different compounds within the resin help with your bronchitis!
Oooh love💚this idea! TY ! I plan to search for free incense this week🌲 I used to make a relaxing free foot 🦶soak by pouring boiling hot water over top pinecones, cool a bit, then insert foot (ha) & say ahhh🌲
Thanks for the amazing video ❤ im wondering if there is another way to burn it as opposed to the spoon way just because of how it looks doing it 😂 what about putting it in an oil burner??
Thank you're for watching 😁 Absolutely, I put it in my soap stone oil burner regularly, it doesn't give off as much vapour and I found I needed slightly taller tealights to get it up to temperature ☺
I use natural coconut charcoal and that burns hot enough to produce a thick cloud to quickly fumigate a room. This is how I take care of the smell from my cat's litterbox.
Sounds like a good way to get lots of fragrance into the air ☺ But to anyone else reading this, do be cautious that it never combusts, it could very easily burst into flame as the resin is super flammable. Stay safe 🔥 ♥
Interesting. What tree were you foraging from, was it a larch? Not tried burning pine resin but i make a salve with it mixed with bog myrtle beeswax and hazelnut oil..
Do you harvest, collect and sell some of your pine resin as well? And if so do you have a website link where I can get some. I love the scent of natural pine versus those toxic incense sticks they sell here in Hollywood, California. Please help me aquire some. Thanks for sharing. You guys are awesome.
Hello 🤗 We do not sell it at present but it is maybe something we'd look into. We'd love to do a one off and send you some but I'm not 100% sure if we're allowed to. Looking at the prohibited shipping items from UK to US it's a bit of a grey area as it talks about food and plant material being prohibited. We really appreciate your want to buy from us but your best option is probably to search 'Tree Resin' on Etsy, there you will find loads of options that will ship within the US. Frankincense is also massively calming snd provides incredible anxiety and stress relief. Sending love from Scotland 🏴 ♥
They were indeed ☺ Pine and fir trees are fine to use too. Don't ever use Yew trees...for anything. Highly toxic. I believe there is one conifer in the US that shouldn't be used but I'm afraid I don't know enough about US trees to advise.
I think they were spruce, not 100% because it was so long ago but you're correct in pointing out these aren't pine trees. I used to have a terrible habit of calling conifers pines, something I picked up as a kid. Actually looking forward to doing a video about the difference between fir, spruce, pine, yew and larch ☺
If you drip some of the molten resin on your skin it will stay hot until it burns you. And sap may be removed from any surface with mineral spirits or turpentine.
It is, Sitka Spruce if I remember rightly! I used to have a bad habit of calling all conifer trees pine trees, it's also what most people think when they see them. I'm now learning my trees more indepthly and enjoying it an awful lot 😁
Great video! And I can't wait to try this as I have a very smelly dog and my house testifys of him 😂 but just to note and I'm not knocking you here but that's not a pine tree, it's ether spruce or fir 👍🏼
Hahaa let's hope it covers his scent, I'm sure it will. You're absolutely right. I still have the habit from being a child and calling every needled tree a pine tree. I should have been more specific in my video. Thank you for sharing ♥
Certainly heard great things about his breathwork and cold water treatment. My mum actually got in the river (in Scotland) every day for a year, she saw massive improvements in willpower, motivation and concentration. Amazing stuff ♥
Absolutely! These were actually spruce trees that I harvested from, I had a bad habit of calling all conifers pine trees back when I filmed this but I've since learned the differences 🌲
I'm afraid I do not know the answer to that. I'd certainly not suggest direct inhalation if you're unwell. I can't imagine using it as a room incense would cause issues but I can't vouch for that. If you're looking for natural remedies for lung issues I'd suggest looking into Mullein and Plantane 🙏
I'll be sure to. I've wanted to do a 'my favourite natural scents' type of video for a while. Can I mention your first name if I mention the frankincense in it?
Yes you would need to dry them ☺ Also be careful, all elements of the pine tree are very flammable, so just take care when you first light it and get it to smoulder 🔥
Yeah an amber colour is a great sign 😁 The more I collect the more in tune I get with the subtle differences in colours and warning signs for the infected ones haha.
They are, sitka spruce if I remember right. I had a bad habit of calling all needled trees pine trees but I've been learning more about the varieties. I've heard of people making pine chewing gum before but I'm afraid I don't know much about it. But you have peaked my curiosity and I will have to look into it ☺
@@TheWoodlandNomad I know that pine is certainly edible because I’ve made (surprisingly delicious) pine cone jam and pine needle syrup, but I can’t really find if you can actually eat the pine sap raw, I’ve seen someone make pine chewing gum with honey and bee wax but that’s it, I’ve found it difficult to find a significant amount of pine resin naturally, maybe because the bark is thicker and they don’t produce as much resin as spruce trees, my grandfather was a forest engineer and he collected pine resin by cutting up the tree in a certain way but I won’t be doing that in the old growth forest I live by
Wow, pinecone jam, I've never heard of that before! Sounds interesting! I've struggled to find much information on pine resin as an edible too 🤔 I'm the same, it really doesn't produce all that much, I've had the most success when limbs have been cut off by the foresty. I too wouldn't want to harm a pine tree and open its bark to the risk of infection for my own gain.
8:53 a bad batch Nothing dodgy at all, Your a pro with a spoon Monsieur Not Dodgy... So how do you get the resin like they do for other trees that it doesn't just oil down like that but burns with charcoal & all that? Or is Pine just one that always liquefies that way?
A lot of tree resins contain larger amounts of gum than pine and spruce. Resin like dragons blood, Frankincense etc don't usually turn to liquid because of the gum content and that's why they're sometimes added to hot coals. Pine is good for melting down to nothing except a little residue and any contaminates like bark/soil etc ☺
In my experience yellow bits tend to smell fungal, it's often a sign of infection. The orange stuff tends to still be white inside, just creates an orange crust on its surface. But there are many variations as you can imagine ☺
@@TheWoodlandNomad yeah i never gather any older resin or trunk sap anyhow i only gather resin from the young shoots or new growth or on the cones and or extract it from the young shoots and new growth because I have serious chronic pain and I am after the morphine content which is present in eastern white pine
You might don't know...in my country Romania, we use that stuff, often,in the church, going to the cemetery, go around the grave, spread that smoke,believing it's keep away the dark spirits, so we'll done to you.
That's brilliant, thank you for sharing 🙏 it's clearly used much like Frankinsense is in the middle east ☺ Lovely to see it appreciated in such a way. I know I find it taps into a very deep sense of safety, maybe because all the dark spirits have been banished 😁
okay so ive been putting pine resin in my oil burner for a while now and someone told me its toxic to inhale??? cant get a definitive answer on the internet. some people say it is and other say it isnt. im afraid to use it now. or are they just taking about ponderosa pine?
Can't find a solid answer either. Pine rosin (used in varnishes) certainly is but pine resin doesn't appear to be toxic in most references I find online. I guess if it is the issue lies in how toxic is it? Breathing campfire smoke is toxic but I'm not going to stop having campfires. The chemicals on and in our our food have a level of toxicity but there's an amount that's allowed through law, so to have some understand of the degree of toxicity for pine resin would be great but I can't seem to find any sort of scientific study. I guess it's down to the individual. I've never had a cough or been phlemy etc after burning pine resin. But yet I've seen people blow black soot from their noses after having a Yankee candle on all night so 🤷♂️
![BLACK BAG - Official Trailer [HD] - Only in Theaters March 14](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/Du0Xp8WX_7I/mqdefault.jpg)
I'm not an expert, but got lowkey nerdy in pine pollen. It's very interesting subject on its own like this was.
But when they release the pollen (yellow powder) will of course fly to the pine cone that are sticky. But the pollen that don't hit goal ends up on the forest floor and works as a very powerful fertilizer for all the other plants in the forest.
I'm constantly amazed how pine is such a gift for nature. Most people just look at it as firewood or building material though...
That's amazing! Mother nature really does create such perfect systems in balance and harmony! Thanks for the brain nugget ☺👍
Bumble bees use pine tar on their wings to purify their hive
Pine sap draws out insect venom in bites. This is something that I learned a long time ago by an elder. I used it to draw out brown recluse spider venom on a friend's leg. Healed in 3 days.
This right here is why I love the community that social media creates; I may never have learned this fact without your comment.
As someone that loves bushcraft and learning about primitive (I trust it more than modern pharma haha) medicine and first aid this is fascinating. Thank you so much for sharing ♥ 🌲
There is more to it than just the sap. This will sound gross but it works. You need to mix your saliva with it then put on the cleaned bite and cover with a bandaid at least 12 hours. Then reapply and redress. You will see a major change.
Doesn't sound gross, it's the same with stinging nettle, gotta chew them herbs first 😁 thank you, I'm going to look into this more, I'd like to add it to a video I'm making if that's ok? I want to talk about all the different uses for the pine/spruce resin and sap. ♥
@@lorrainebijou4108 stop it... Did you really? Their venom is pretty vicious stuff.
@@TingTingalingy yes I did. She was absolutely amazed at the difference in just one night's application.
I just went harvesting yesterday because of your video. I had no idea there was GOLD just sitting there all these years.
This makes me very happy! There's all sorts of treasure, medicine and food out there 😁
Yepper - I'm heading out for free incense search this week 💰
I love how absolutely respectful you both are of nature. Glad I stumbled across this video, I plan to go resin hunting soon now! Thanks for the info
Awww thank you! We're glad that comes across in our videos. We adore nature and want to live alongside it and learn its wisdom ♥ good luck, no doubt you'll find some soon 😁
I want to be like you. This visceral tug into the forest is getting stronger and stronger every day.
It's where we're meant to be, we're just monkeys with smartphones really. Nothing makes me feel more at peace than a woodland walk :) I hope you can find more time to be in the woods soon, Seth 💚
I've seen some folks with their lighters and incense spoons in the alley by my house! They always seem so relaxed 😌
Hahaha, not convinced their resin smells the same 😅
@TheWoodlandNomad awesome video Btw, I will be trying this!
I've lived near pine tree's all my life and never considered this. 👏
@bigsquidtickler9355 I hope you find the time to make some pine needle tea too 🍵 ☺
Love it! An incredible fact about pine resin is that it’s a natural reproductive strategies of pines.. they literally produce it to become inflammable, increasing the possibility of a destructive fire for the habitat thus their seeds can easily germinate and grow…
That's incredible, mother nature sure has figured out some very clever strategies 😁🌲
Bushcraft to Trainspotting in 60 seconds 🤣 Love it Matty.
Love the smell too you're not wrong! 🙌🏽😍
Haha really though! We've had someone take a screenshot of our video and edit it into the Trainspotting movie cover haha.
@@TheWoodlandNomad excellent 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Most pine tress are also edible.... Very high in vitamin C. You can make a natural fermented soda with the needles. The White pine is the best 😊
Sounds delicious!! 🌲
I have several trees two hit by lightning I need to make some😅
In Mississippi, USA here.
I LOVE the smell of pine, fir, and cedar!
I never thought of using this sap or resin as an incense until I saw your video, thank you!
I’m always purchasing and burning frankincense and myrrh in my house.
Now, I’ll start trying to find some Sap or resin from our local pine trees, which we have millions of, around here!
Aw I encourage you to try it, it's such a fantastic scent, similar to frankincense in that it's a very warm and comforting fragrance. Much more economical and environmentally positive too. Plus you get to go and explore in the woods, it's a win-win 😁
I live in California, USA, and we have Ponderosa pines around here. Their resin smells like warm butterscotch and summer nights!
Butterscotch! 🤤 That sounds incredible 😁 I might need to see if I can find someone who sells it in the UK!
@@TheWoodlandNomad if you can't find some, I'll send some! Maybe we can trade! I want to smell your resin too. To bad we can't text smells! 😅
I use a little glass jar to harvest the resin, it's super handy and it doesn't take much room in the bag.
Great idea ☺
Oh wow! Thank you so much for this. Pine is my favourite tree and I’ve been absolutely obsessed with the smell of that sticky resin since the very first time I accidentally got it all over myself.
Everything you said about how it’s more than just a smell and how it does something to your soul, I know exactly what you mean!
It’s incredibly grounding and evokes something deep within you. A sort of remembrance from times long long ago. I can’t describe it, but it’s like my soul is so familiar with the scent, so familiar with it and so comforted by it. She truly is one of nature’s many blessings.
I always say if I could bottle it I’d wear it as a perfume and now I’ve just found out I can gather the resin and burn it as an incense! I’m so excited I can’t wait to do it! Thank you so much. Great video and so respectful to the beautiful pine 🌲
Much love to you 💕
Thank you for your beautiful comment ♥
Couldn't agree more, I think it taps into the caveman/cavewoman inside of us all, a real primal comfort that we've likely experienced for thousands of years as we gathered around campfires ☺
I have actually got a perfume in which I included some pine resin. It's a mix of frakensense, pine resin, pine needle oil and cinnamon. It's such beautiful scent.
I hope you're home smells like a pine forest soon and it brings you the same level of peace that it brings me, I'm sure it will ♥ 🌲
I can absolutely vouch for every word said here! I had the pleasure of experiencing this with Matty and Lisa in Bruce for myself, the smell was indescribably beautiful and so relaxing.
Highly recommend! 👌💚
Soooo relaxing 😁 We'll be blowing it up your nose all the time when you come to Scotland, loads of it there as you can imagine 😁 ♥
Great video
Thank you kindly 🙏
i love this so much
In the US, we have a pine tree called Jefferson Pine. The bark smells like vanilla. it is amazing!
Super jealous, that sounds incredible 🤤
travelling in a van , i don't suggest burning on a spoon .. incase you get stopped by police and they want to search further lol!
good video and thanks for sharing :D
Ha, certainly might be a difficult one to explain to a police officer 😅
Thank you 😁
Incensole Acetate which is one of the terpenes in Frankincense (no reason to suspect it's not also present in pine resin) has been shown to be an antianxiety and antidepressant psychoactive substance.
That's what inspired me to try spruce resin, I adore Frankinsense but liked the idea of having something I can forage at home. Both wonderful, grounding scents. Thanks for the knowledge bomb 💣 🙏
i haven't got a van (sadly) but i live in small upstairs apartment and this wood be awesome for my anxious household and it connects you directly to nature. love it
Aww I hope you enjoy it and it brings peace to your space 🙏
Thank you for being the Steve Irwin of trees. Sharing knowledge, care, respect and awareness. 🌲❣
🥰 Aw thank you Morgan! I hope you enjoyed my video and thank you for commenting 💚
It's amazing where a person can find pine trees. I'm in an urban area, and sometimes I find it in parks and other plantings. Definitely want to make a test burn, though. Thanks for the post!
They really are everywhere ☺ and many different types too 😁 🌲
curious why you dropped the lit candle down from the top when that's the whole purpose of the side cut out (to place and remove the tea light)! lol!
It's too small to light the candle in the holder and to put it in lit it's quite the angle and burns your fingers. So always found it easier to just drop it in 🤷♂️
THANKS FOR THE WONDERFUL INFORMATION ❤❤❤
You're very welcome 😁 ♥
Thank you so much i love this. I always walk in the woods and now the woods are in my home!!
You're very welcome! It's amazing isn't it, being able to have the scent of the outdoors right there in your own home
Hi nice two see you two. A fantastic video well done. Take care
Sorry it's been so long James, just taking things at a slower pace recently 😝 Stay safe and thanks for watching and commenting mate 😁
Very nicely done - thanks guys! I'm a bushcrafter + psychologist (thanks, youtube algorithm), but I react badly to artificial odours and most perfumes. Gonna try this in the practice and then check the vibe...
Thank you 🥰 I hope you enjoy it as much as I do. Still stands as my favourite fragrance to date 😁
Thank you. Very helpful advice and insights. Also, appreciate your respect of Nature.
No thank you for taking the time to watch and comment ☺ She deserves all the respect a person can give 🙏 🌿 ♥
You would love being on my land you could collect enough to last you a lifetime....another great video.stay safe and enjoy making memories 🌱🌿🍂🍃🍁🍄
Haha I can imagine! We get snobby with sap in Scotland because there's so much, only the finest chunks will do haha. Thank you, friend ♥
Great video! Thank you for sharing your knowledge! 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Thank you for watching and commenting, glad you enjoyed it ♥ 🙏
Thank you, it was great to see two so good people.
Aw that's so sweet of you to say 😍 thank you for watching and commenting 🤗 Sending good vibes your way.
Living in the southern Baja peninsula i would go out and harvest resin from the Copal trees, more like bushes actually. This resin is a fabulous incense. Check it out next time you go to Mexico!
Aww wow lucky you, I adore the smell of Copal 😍 I'll be sure to if I ever get the chance ☺
It would be awesome if you made a video about making the perfume!
I'll keep my eyes open for a good batch 🤞 💚
Awesome. Like the cozy warming fire in the woodlands camping, using dry pine and other fat wood trees as fuel. Love it and always makes me calm and blissful. Will try this for sure. Will be able to smell the pine fragrance chillin in the crib too❤🔥🙏good luck on your journey
It's exactly that, that entire scent captured and brought into your home, it's absolutely lush and to this day my favourite scent. Just be careful with how flammable it is of course. And you 🙏 ♥
Can’t wait to try this!
I hope you like it as much as I do 🙏
Learned so much. Thanks!
No thank you for watching and commenting. Glad you found my video informative 😁
Font of knowledge - excellent. Thanks
Kind of you to say ☺ thank you ♥
This is amazing! I'm so looking forward to trying this
I hope you love its aroma as much as we do ♥
I fav is Pinon pine resin. I like it because I purchase it already refined - debris free. It doesn't have a "Christmas tree" scent but more of a musky raw tree odor. I make mustache wax, balm and even soap from this resin. The soap was so amazing....much better than Grandpa's Pine Tar Soap.
Ooh that sounds lush! Do you sell on etsy? ☺
We'd encourage you to harvest your own sometime, perhaps not for using in soap etc because of all the debris but just to smell it straight from there tree, when refined the resins actually lose some of their scent through the heating process ♥ thanks for watching and commenting 🤗
Nothing beats the aroma of white birch bark used as incense.
I love making firelighters with birch bark, such an awesome smell, the black smoke probably isn't something to inhale though 😅
@@TheWoodlandNomad How's it different from incense and Myrrh?
I certainly wouldn't put it in a pipe and smoke it!
I collected some pine resin today I had a few clunks that came out a dark blood orange color and some came out whitish clear color I haven't tried them yet but can't wait to try the resin.
Oooh sounds lovely. We'd recommend always keeping them separate as they can have different aromas and it's nice being able to pick and choose. Plus they can sometimes smell a bit cheesy if the tree has been infected 🧀 😂
This is such an insanely good channel.
Aww thank you so much ♥
You have an insanely good username 😝
great knowledge, brilliant vlog, keep well guys.
Thank you Lee 😁 Glad you enjoyed it. Stay safe mate ♥
@@TheWoodlandNomad hope to meet you guys soon.x
Well done & thank you for making this video!
Thank you very much, appreciate the comment 🥰
I just picked some, used a mint tin and filled it half way with rock solid white crystal resin. Ill play around with burning methods, 33mm coal puck, oil burner like yours or melt and dip sage in it.
Amazing, sounds like a big success, enjoy!!
Interesting ...thanks 👍I have been burning green hojari sacra frankincense, benzoin Sumatra and copal in my garden for years while i work. I will have to try this one. Smell is something that can really make you feel comfortable calm and relaxed ect etc. Like grandma baking during Christmas 🤗
Mmmm good choices of fragrance 😍 It does doesn't it? I find smell is often the most nostalgic sence, it's usually a fragrance that takes me back to a place from the past ♥
Wish I had one of those Smell-o- vision thingies!
It's a beautiful scent. You should go find some ☺
@@TheWoodlandNomad Actually, unfortunately, one of our neighbors cut down one of their pines yesterday and I asked to go through the heartwood to get some pitch. Worked quite well and now the Spirit of that tree can have a further life, even though I think they didn't need to cut her down.
Poor tree. Too many trees see felled for cosmetic reasons, not saying that's why they cut it down but I'd love and nurture every tree in my garden if I had one. Are you based in the UK?
Such a great video, thanks guys!! xxx
Thank you so much Jennifer, glad you enjoyed it ☺ xx
I've got a piece of resin from a huge fallen pine, and I hold it with equal reverence as you display with yours. It's quite a dark amber in color, almost brown, possibly it's aged, but my gods the smell off that is next level. I burn it sparingly and will probably have the rock for decades haha
Aw wow that sounds fantastic 😍 I'm so glad that other people share the same level of appreciation for a good pine nugget as I do 😁 🙏
I’m trying this in Big Bear California!
Amazing 😍 hope you find a good batch, I'm sure you will 😁🌲
great music great vids new sub
happy happy
Thank you so much, and welcome aboard 🙏
This was absolutely fascinating!!! Thank you so much for this video, I had no idea about this so we're going to give this a go when we're next out. I want to know what it smells like! 😍
Oooh please do, you'll have to let us know what you make of it. Don't spill it 🔥 haha. ♥
So I have watched this video b4 several months ago. But..... today I, for some reason, decided to collect some. I got some a week or two ago also and they were orange 🍊.
Today,,,,,, I got some very interesting different kinds
Some looked Old and like the resin was covered in bark almost like the tree had stabbed and then grew new skin over the resin. NOTE: I BELIEVE that tree was severely wounded in the past and as I pulled this off it looked healed underneath. I don't know for sure but it was an interesting haul from the forestall now I am watching vids about refining it and its purposes andnhere you are again. Watching for a 2nd time
Hope you had a nice time in the woods collecting ☺
That's how you find the best stuff, those wounds that are really old, the resin is lovely and firm and the tree is healed up nicely so easier to collect and better leaving the trees with the younger wounds to heal ♥
Hope they refining went well, can be dangerous stuff when cooked down, like hot, spitty tar. But a fascinating substance with many uses especially in bushcraft 😁
This has been informative. Any tricks to get pine sap off my phone?
I've not tried it but apparently butter lifts pine resin, perhaps you could use that?
Wonderful vlog both. Guess what I'll be doing this weekend. Keep your fingers crossed for me. All the very best wishes. Love always 💚💚💚
Thank you mate! Hope you find some mate, it's wonderful stuff 😁 ♥
@@TheWoodlandNomad hope so, plus all the fun of exploring around the trees. Perfect. Cheers both ❤
I found the video so interesting 👍What is the name of the particular pine tree that you took the resin from?
Just seen your reply from further down. Its a Spruce. Far more common near where I am. Next time out collecting kindling, I'll get me some resin as well.
Super video.
Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed my video 😁
It's actually a spruce tree, I believe it was a Sitka Spruce plantation if I remember correctly. But all UK pine and spruce are suitable. The only exception I know of is a pine tree in the U.S which is toxic.
Hope you find some, I'm sure you will ☺
I boil it with flavoring and smoke it, it makes my anxiety leave
That's amazing, not heard of that. What kind of flavouring do you use?
Love this video, thank you! Just curious, is there a better month/time of year to collect? Thank you :)
Glad you enjoyed it 😁 You can collect all year round. Some of it can be softer and sticker on a hot summers day but it makes no difference to the quality. Also, the proper resin will be firm in all weathers ☺
Very interesting I've never seen white pine risen before. All the pine trees in my area look really different, the bark is different. They all produce this amber color resin. When the bits with a little bark inside the resin smells even better. But in the park near me it's super abundant. Can find pieces on the ground near the base of the tree. Ive been using it to help my bronchitis, believe it or not the smoke soothes my cough, throat and bronchi tubes. I guess you would call it. Making it feel not so dry.
Aw lovely, sounds like you've got an abundance of lovely pine resin around you 😁 It's hard to find research papers about it's medicinal effects when breathed in but I'm not surprised all the different compounds within the resin help with your bronchitis!
Oooh love💚this idea! TY ! I plan to search for free incense this week🌲 I used to make a relaxing free foot 🦶soak by pouring boiling hot water over top pinecones, cool a bit, then insert foot (ha) & say ahhh🌲
Hope you've managed to find some. Ooh that's interesting, I'll have to try that some time! 🦵🦵
Thanks for the amazing video ❤ im wondering if there is another way to burn it as opposed to the spoon way just because of how it looks doing it 😂 what about putting it in an oil burner??
Thank you're for watching 😁 Absolutely, I put it in my soap stone oil burner regularly, it doesn't give off as much vapour and I found I needed slightly taller tealights to get it up to temperature ☺
Have you tried Tea Tree oil to remove sticky sap from your skin? It's also great for removing glue from a jar after peeling a label off.
I haven't, great tip, thank you 🙏 I'll be sure to try it next time I get covered in resin 😁
This is amazing!! I totally need to try it, thanks so much for sharing with so much detail 🥰
You'll have to let us know what you make of it 😁 you're welcome lovely ♥
I got some from a Doug Fir also and it smells pretty good. Almost the same as the resin I got from a pine…
They do smell very similar. We've got a collection of different ones now and some are much more citrusy than others ☺
I use natural coconut charcoal and that burns hot enough to produce a thick cloud to quickly fumigate a room. This is how I take care of the smell from my cat's litterbox.
Sounds like a good way to get lots of fragrance into the air ☺ But to anyone else reading this, do be cautious that it never combusts, it could very easily burst into flame as the resin is super flammable. Stay safe 🔥 ♥
Yes, terpens are crazy :)
This is a good video. You didn't him & haw or loose my interest, well done.
Aww thank you, that's lovely to hear ☺
Sayah dari petani getah dari indoensia ,sayah tau cara mengambil getah Pinus ..diindonesia sangat berharga getah Pinus..
That's amazing! I'd love to visit Indonesia, I hope you have a wonderful life over there ☺
Interesting. What tree were you foraging from, was it a larch?
Not tried burning pine resin but i make a salve with it mixed with bog myrtle beeswax and hazelnut oil..
Thanks for the geadsup on the pine incense! And the poo incense as well!
Although I know some people that would be a Great prank for! Lol
You're welcome, thank you for watching and commenting! Aye you gotta watch out for the pooey stuff hahaa!
Do you harvest, collect and sell some of your pine resin as well? And if so do you have a website link where I can get some. I love the scent of natural pine versus those toxic incense sticks they sell here in Hollywood, California. Please help me aquire some. Thanks for sharing. You guys are awesome.
Hello 🤗 We do not sell it at present but it is maybe something we'd look into. We'd love to do a one off and send you some but I'm not 100% sure if we're allowed to. Looking at the prohibited shipping items from UK to US it's a bit of a grey area as it talks about food and plant material being prohibited.
We really appreciate your want to buy from us but your best option is probably to search 'Tree Resin' on Etsy, there you will find loads of options that will ship within the US. Frankincense is also massively calming snd provides incredible anxiety and stress relief.
Sending love from Scotland 🏴 ♥
So from reading previous comments I understand that these were Sitka Spruce trees. Do you know what other evergreen trees can safely be used?
They were indeed ☺ Pine and fir trees are fine to use too. Don't ever use Yew trees...for anything. Highly toxic. I believe there is one conifer in the US that shouldn't be used but I'm afraid I don't know enough about US trees to advise.
Idk if I'll ever do the spoon method, however this was helpful nonetheless. 🙌
It's a good way to fill a spaces quickly but can be a little strong for some ☺ Thank you for watching and commenting 🤗
7:10 That is my kind of anxiety relief
😂 That is until it wears off, then I imagine you get a little...itchy 😅
"No, officer, I swear! It's pine resin!"
Haha, it's properly one of those 'this isn't what it looks like' moments 😂
I'm literally burning some amazing amber right now! First couple of sources were fake
You’ve got our sub !!
Thanks guys, subbed back! Love to connect with other vanlifers 😝 ♥
@@TheWoodlandNomad love the knowledge you two give too!! Definitely something to learn from 🤓
Aww thank you. We just love to learn about everything nature 😁 🍃
Do you have a store?
Do you mean an online shop? I don't currently but I am working on a few ideas at the moment 🤫 😁
@@TheWoodlandNomad do you have instagram or TikTok?
Aren't they Douglas fir trees?
I think they were spruce, not 100% because it was so long ago but you're correct in pointing out these aren't pine trees.
I used to have a terrible habit of calling conifers pines, something I picked up as a kid. Actually looking forward to doing a video about the difference between fir, spruce, pine, yew and larch ☺
The Mora Companion is such a cheap treasure, I have two
It's absolutely fantastic for it's price isn't it? The blade never seems to go dull 👌
If you drip some of the molten resin on your skin it will stay hot until it burns you. And sap may be removed from any surface with mineral spirits or turpentine.
It certainly will 😅🔥
That's good to know, thank you 👍
Isn´t that a spruce tree you collecting the resin from ?
Spruce Resin ?
It is, Sitka Spruce if I remember rightly!
I used to have a bad habit of calling all conifer trees pine trees, it's also what most people think when they see them. I'm now learning my trees more indepthly and enjoying it an awful lot 😁
Great video! And I can't wait to try this as I have a very smelly dog and my house testifys of him 😂 but just to note and I'm not knocking you here but that's not a pine tree, it's ether spruce or fir 👍🏼
Hahaa let's hope it covers his scent, I'm sure it will.
You're absolutely right. I still have the habit from being a child and calling every needled tree a pine tree. I should have been more specific in my video. Thank you for sharing ♥
Thank you for sharing your knowledge. I need to find myself a pine forest.
Is it a seasonal thing or do the trees shed sap all year round?
Thank you for watching Alan 😁 Nope, you can find pine resin all year, it takes years to form too, at least until it goes firm and crystalline ☺
Wim Hoff best anxiety relief
Certainly heard great things about his breathwork and cold water treatment. My mum actually got in the river (in Scotland) every day for a year, she saw massive improvements in willpower, motivation and concentration. Amazing stuff ♥
Thank you for this video! Do you know if we can use resin from spruce as incense?
Absolutely! These were actually spruce trees that I harvested from, I had a bad habit of calling all conifers pine trees back when I filmed this but I've since learned the differences 🌲
@@TheWoodlandNomad Ok, so both pine and spruce works fine as incense. Thank you for the answer! 😃
Yeah both are lovely. We have mostly spruce in our collection.
Have you tried sugar and oil to remove the stickiness x
We haven't, great idea! I did recently sit on some pine sap, which isn't ideal as I can't use oil to clean it off, oops 😝 x
I always see this and have wanted a reason to collect it. Thank you so much!!! 🩷
You're very welcome 😁
are there dangers to inhalation...chest been sore and lungs feel not 100% capacity of late
I'm afraid I do not know the answer to that. I'd certainly not suggest direct inhalation if you're unwell. I can't imagine using it as a room incense would cause issues but I can't vouch for that.
If you're looking for natural remedies for lung issues I'd suggest looking into Mullein and Plantane 🙏
Do you like royal green hojari sacra frankincense?
Hmm I've never tried the Green Hojari variety, I'll need to look it up ☺ ✌️
@@TheWoodlandNomad it's the top frankincense I use the resin
Thank you, I'll have to buy some 😁
If you do make a video on it if you don't mind
I'll be sure to. I've wanted to do a 'my favourite natural scents' type of video for a while. Can I mention your first name if I mention the frankincense in it?
if i use the pine needles as a smudge stick do i have to let the pine needles dry?
Yes you would need to dry them ☺ Also be careful, all elements of the pine tree are very flammable, so just take care when you first light it and get it to smoulder 🔥
Love the content ! Got my subb
Aww thank you so much and welcome aboard! 😁 🎉 ♥
Good to see you guys
Thanks mate 😁 Got another one coming soon 👍 ♥
A good amount of the time the sap becomes yellow due to oxidation. But it could be some kind of infection as well.
Yeah an amber colour is a great sign 😁 The more I collect the more in tune I get with the subtle differences in colours and warning signs for the infected ones haha.
Aren’t these spruce trees? I’ve made spruce chewing gum but I was wondering if you could make pine chewing gum from pinus sylvestris or contorta?
They are, sitka spruce if I remember right. I had a bad habit of calling all needled trees pine trees but I've been learning more about the varieties. I've heard of people making pine chewing gum before but I'm afraid I don't know much about it. But you have peaked my curiosity and I will have to look into it ☺
@@TheWoodlandNomad I know that pine is certainly edible because I’ve made (surprisingly delicious) pine cone jam and pine needle syrup, but I can’t really find if you can actually eat the pine sap raw, I’ve seen someone make pine chewing gum with honey and bee wax but that’s it, I’ve found it difficult to find a significant amount of pine resin naturally, maybe because the bark is thicker and they don’t produce as much resin as spruce trees, my grandfather was a forest engineer and he collected pine resin by cutting up the tree in a certain way but I won’t be doing that in the old growth forest I live by
Wow, pinecone jam, I've never heard of that before! Sounds interesting!
I've struggled to find much information on pine resin as an edible too 🤔
I'm the same, it really doesn't produce all that much, I've had the most success when limbs have been cut off by the foresty. I too wouldn't want to harm a pine tree and open its bark to the risk of infection for my own gain.
8:53 a bad batch Nothing dodgy at all, Your a pro with a spoon Monsieur Not Dodgy... So how do you get the resin like they do for other trees that it doesn't just oil down like that but burns with charcoal & all that? Or is Pine just one that always liquefies that way?
A lot of tree resins contain larger amounts of gum than pine and spruce. Resin like dragons blood, Frankincense etc don't usually turn to liquid because of the gum content and that's why they're sometimes added to hot coals. Pine is good for melting down to nothing except a little residue and any contaminates like bark/soil etc ☺
if orange is your favorite then wouldnt yellow just be the intermediate stage between whitish or clearish and orange or darker amberish?
In my experience yellow bits tend to smell fungal, it's often a sign of infection. The orange stuff tends to still be white inside, just creates an orange crust on its surface. But there are many variations as you can imagine ☺
@@TheWoodlandNomad yeah i never gather any older resin or trunk sap anyhow i only gather resin from the young shoots or new growth or on the cones and or extract it from the young shoots and new growth because I have serious chronic pain and I am after the morphine content which is present in eastern white pine
I injest my pine tar powder
How often do you do that? I've heard of people doing it with Frankincense but not pine/spruce.
You might don't know...in my country Romania, we use that stuff, often,in the church, going to the cemetery, go around the grave, spread that smoke,believing it's keep away the dark spirits, so we'll done to you.
That's brilliant, thank you for sharing 🙏 it's clearly used much like Frankinsense is in the middle east ☺ Lovely to see it appreciated in such a way. I know I find it taps into a very deep sense of safety, maybe because all the dark spirits have been banished 😁
okay so ive been putting pine resin in my oil burner for a while now and someone told me its toxic to inhale??? cant get a definitive answer on the internet. some people say it is and other say it isnt. im afraid to use it now. or are they just taking about ponderosa pine?
Can't find a solid answer either. Pine rosin (used in varnishes) certainly is but pine resin doesn't appear to be toxic in most references I find online. I guess if it is the issue lies in how toxic is it? Breathing campfire smoke is toxic but I'm not going to stop having campfires. The chemicals on and in our our food have a level of toxicity but there's an amount that's allowed through law, so to have some understand of the degree of toxicity for pine resin would be great but I can't seem to find any sort of scientific study.
I guess it's down to the individual. I've never had a cough or been phlemy etc after burning pine resin. But yet I've seen people blow black soot from their noses after having a Yankee candle on all night so 🤷♂️