Care for Your Candle

I just got my candles! What should I do?

Trim your wick to ¼ inch and burn in a room without drafts. If you find that your wick is getting long, you can trim it while the candle is lit or after extinguishing it. Drafts can make your candle burn faster and unevenly so try to protect your flame.

What is this white stuff on my candle?

If you use your candle for decoration and not burning, you may find a patina or “bloom” starting to develop on your candles. This is a normal aspect of aging beeswax and a herald that your candles are pure beeswax and not imposters! However, if you want them looking "shiny and chrome", the bloom can be buffed off with your hands or warmed off with a blow dryer. (If you get my reference there, use the movie name -no spaces- at checkout for a 10% discount 🚗)

My candle is burning down like a tunnel instead of using all the wax!

While your candle burns, if you find that it is “tunneling” rather than burning all available wax, go ahead and give the top part of the wax wall where it's nice and warm a little hug so it’s closer to the flame. This should prevent tunneling and use up as much of the precious wax fuel as possible so you can enjoy your candle for the longest amount of time possible.

Wider candles will need to burn longer to avoid tunneling. While a taper can be lit for a short time and extinguished without issue, most pillars need a few hours of light time prior to being extinguished to keep them burning properly and to use up all their wax. 

Why don't you add fragrance to your candles?

Ultimately it's because I want to offer the cleanest product possible so anyone, even those with asthma and sensitivities to fragrances, can enjoy the romance of candles. If you like long-winded explanations for things, here's a blog post for you which gets into the nitty gritty details behind this decision!

Why are all these candles yellow? Where are the fun colors!?

I love fun colors as much as anyone, but unfortunately trying to find proper safety studies on candle dyes is tricky. Like fragrance, I wanted to make absolutely certain that the candles I offered were not releasing toxins when burned, and most dyes tend to be quite toxic. Plus they're expensive, and I wanted to keep my candles very affordable!
I am working on learning about natural dyes which burn clean, so stay tuned for possible candle colors hitting the store!

How long will my candles burn?

Beeswax burns for much longer than most other waxes on the market. On average you can expect a beeswax candle to burn for 8-12 hours per inch of diameter. To compare, soy and vegetable waxes usually burn 7-10 hours per inch of diameter, and paraffin burns for a piddly 30 minutes per inch in diameter. So you may be paying more up front for a beeswax candle than you would for a mass produced paraffin pillar, but it will burn up to 12x longer! Which, when you do the math, actually makes beeswax cheaper in the long run 😉