Beeswax Candle Tips & Best Practices

Here are some quick tips to help you get the most out of your beautiful beeswax candles.

• We have to start with safety. Please be careful when burning candles, especially around kids, pets, textiles, etc. Make sure your candle is on an appropriate holder, has enough clear space around it, and has at least 24" of headroom. Always extinguish your candles before you go to bed or leave your house.
• When lighting a candle, light the base of the wick, not the top.
• Trim candle wicks to 1/4" before re-lighting.
• Burn your candle for at least as long as it takes the area of molten wax to reach the outside edges of the candle. Dam up running areas with wax to prevent overly rapid burning.
• You may need to "hug" the top edges of your pillar candle with your hands if they start bowing outward. You may also trim them down to optimize the flame's access to oxygen.
• Immerse the wick in the molten wax pool to extinguish instead of blowing out. This creates less smoke and primes the wick for the next burn.
• Drafts, fans, and breezes can impair the longevity and flame size of your candle. If the flame is "dancing", you should move your candle to a spot with still air. 
• The powdery white coating that develops on your candle is called "bloom" and it means your candle is 100% real beeswax. If you don't like it, you can buff it away with a soft cloth.
• Not all candles will use up all their wax by the time the wick is gone. Save the leftover wax to make your own lotion bars or even more candles. Beeswax can be melted down over and over again and it never expires. See our DIY section for candle mold kits!