100% Soy Candles

Only Light Your Candle Once Every 24 Hours.

To help keep your candle around longer, don’t burn too often. Burning it for more than four hours can cause your candle’s wick to form the dreaded mushroom or a carbon deposit on the tip. That means more smoke and more soot.

Trim Your Wick
For a clean and fragrant candle experience with less smoke, trim your candle’s wick to ¼ inch both before use and after every 4 hours of burning. Trimming your candle’s wick will give you a cleaner, brighter burn. If you do not trim the wick, it’s more likely to end up with a weird mushroom shape that cause those nasty black soot stains on the top of your candle jar. 

Our  Wick Trimmer reaches the bottom of our deepest jars, is angled for ease of use, and has a rim to collect snipped wicks.

Avoid Drafts
Drafts can cause flickering and smoke, or even blow your candle out. keep burning candles away from drafts like ceiling fans and open windows to prevent flame flare-ups, sooting, and rapid burning. Place candles in areas away from drafts for optimal fragrance.

How do you keep candles smelling good?

Place candles far away from air vents to maximize their scent. Pay attention to where your candle is placed in the room. If you are setting it near a window that gets opened often, an overhead fan or air vent, all those things can affect how strong the candle smells. 

Putting your candle in the right place.

Make Sure you put your scented candle on a strong, heat-resistant surface, away from curtains and fabric. If you have more than one candle in the same room, be sure to space them at least 3inches apart so they don’t melt each other.

Let it Pool
Keep your candle lit until the wax melts all the way to the edge of the jar. This creates a wax pool that maximizes fragrance throw and prevents tunneling (a ring of un-melted wax). Tunneling shortens candle life and can be difficult to prevent once it gets started, so let your candle fully pool — it’s the perfect excuse for enjoying it just a little bit longer!

Putting it Out
Blowing out a candle can splash wax and result in a smoking wick. Instead, use one of our elegant Candle Snuffers to extinguish the flame quickly and safely.

A secret to prevent tunneling and to promote clean, even burning that uses all the wax: Whenever possible, put out the candle with a candle snuffer to cut oxygen supply to the flame, minimize the generation of smoke and prevent a burning smell. Putting the candle out with a snuffer, instead of blowing it out means that the jar burns clean, evenly, and helps prevent excess soot.

Saying Goodbye
When the wax is 1/2 of an inch or less from the bottom of the jar, it’s time to replace your candle. Recycle your jar or better yet up-cycle it into something new. The soy wax is very easily cleaned up so you can reuse the jar.

For safety’s sake, always burn candles far away from drafts, other heat sources, and anything flammable. Make sure burning candles are out of reach of children and pets. Never leave a burning candle unattended.