For those who are riding the shirt tails of soy through the organic revolution, the answer to that question will be, most assuredly, a resounding “No”! But for those of us who live in the real world, where pigs don’t fly and black beans are way tastier (and prettier in a salsa) than soy beans, the answer to that question will always be a very strong “Yes”! Soy beans are really good for your heart. They are easy to grow and have many uses in the culinary and health care worlds, but they lack the ability to leap tall buildings in a single bound, and they do not burn crystal clean. They are, after all, merely beans.
My point is this: you cannot squeeze a soy bean and drink soy milk. You cannot mash a soy bean and render soy wax for candles. It is not possible to squish a few soy beans together to make tofu. All of these soy products are made possible through the use of chemicals, specialized methods of preparation, and the rendering and rearranging of the natural materials found in the soy plant, not to mention the addition of many elements which are in no way natural. This means that the entire claim that soy has to being an “all natural, organic, miracle product” is rather bogus.
Paraffin wax, beeswax, and soy wax are all just as biodegradable as one another, and the soot formed by any of these candles is basically harmless to people. In cases where very extreme allergies at play, the soot from a soy candle will be no less irritating than that from a paraffin candle. The moral of the story here is to relax, light up your favorite scent, and try to stop feeding the great soy frenzy.