When a few drops of essential oil is dropped onto LAVA beads, the aroma can last for days! That is why mala bead bracelets and necklaces made of lava stone are so popular, they literally hold and absorb essential oils for days, benefiting you the therapeutic effects of essential oils for the whole time.
Malas are used for keeping count while reciting, chanting, or mentally repeating a mantra or the name or names of a deity. This sādhanā (practice) is known in Sanskrit as japa. Malas are typically made with 18, 27, 54 or 108 beads. ... In Tibetan Buddhism, malas are mainly used to count mantras.
