Getting ready for the Holidays? What better way to show your affection is by giving a customized scented candle. Candlestyle has rolled out a new promotion for the holidays by offering a new custom label designed by you. For example, you can design the label of your candle of choice with your own images and followed with a a quick messages to express your thoughts…”Happy Holidays, with Love, Jane doe” or” Thinking of you through the Holidays, Love Always, Jane Doe, or Merry Christmas or Happy Halloween, Love, Jane Doe.
With this new feature we added to our scented candles the new custom labels are endless. You could also do a funny candle like the one we already offer “Butt Naked”, like “Stinky Feet” or Sweaty Armpits” and have the candle actually smell like roses. FYI: “Butt Naked” really smells like sweet apples, honey dew melon with hints of prickly pears. This candle has a wonderful fresh scent that fills the air with beautiful citrus aromas.
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There seems to be a misconception about soy wax candles versus paraffin wax scented candles, and I am here to set the record straight. As far as soy, if you research raw soy products you will find that soy wax cost about 30% less than high-grade paraffin and the scent oil retention is only 6% compared to a possible 12% for paraffin recipes. This means that soy candle cost a lot less to produce than our current line.
However, the industry tries to charge more because it is supposedly in some way, shape or form more environmentally friendly. For whatever reason, people tend to equate soy with “GOING GREEN” and more eco-friendly than its paraffin counterpart. A contention that simply isn’t true.
Did you know that the US used to be the world’s largest exporter and consumer of soy? We no longer are because we converted soy crops for crops that were better suited to alternative fuel like corn. You know who’s the world’s largest producer of soy today? Brazil. You know why? To keep up with the ever increasing demand for soy from China (now the world’s leading consumer of soy).
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It has occurred to me over the last few weeks of selling my scented candles at farmer’s market that the type of candle you buy ultimately in some way plays a part in defining who you are. Whether you’re a standard paraffin wax candle, creamy paraffin wax, soy, double wick, single wick, wickless, a tart candle, a votive or pillar, keepsake or glass jar, a smelly jelly, tealight, luminara, floating, specialty or my favorite, just a plan tin truly identifies the type of person you might typically be.
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Candle burning 101…
Did you know that if you keep your candle’s wick properly trimmed that it will increase the burn time by 10 to 20 hours? I know this seems like a bit of an embellishment, however, based on my own candle burning experiences and as an owner of a hand mixed and poured custom candle company…CandleStyle, I can personally attest to this fact.
I bet you didn’t know that by keeping your wick properly trimmed each time you light it would reduce the amount of black soot buildup around the candle’s container. It is important for you to know how and why the soot buildup occurs. What happens is a process called combustion, if the flame is too long then candle will alter and then produce carbon black, instead of carbon dioxide. Carbon black is bad and will stick to anything it is exposed to including candle tins, glasses even your walls and ceilings.
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