Proper care is essential to a clean burning candle. Many problems can be avoided, once you know how. We offer the following suggestions to help you get the most from our candles and prevent many of the most common causes of poor candle performance.

 

VOTIVE CANDLE

 

Always burn your votive candle in an approved candle holder. The tighter the fit the better. Your votive should have a little space around it to allow for wax run-off but not so loose that the wax just runs away.

 

Trim your wick to 1/4 inch or less before each time you burn your candle. This practice is crucial to proper candle performance and a clean burn.

 

 Protect your candle from drafts. Drafty conditions cause incomplete and uneven combustion. Brief puffs of smoke can result. Drafts can also cause the flame to unevenly melt the side walls of your candle which frequently ruins a perfectly good candle. If the candle flame is dancing, the candles life is being shortened.

 

 Remove foreign matter from the wax pool. Items such as match heads, bits of wick, moths and other foreign matter along with becoming an unsightly mess can become secondary wicks and create an inferno when you least expect it, often ruining a perfectly good candle or worse.

 

 Straighten your wicks. Many people don't realize that braided cotton wicks tend to curl as they get hot. The wick will curl and lean to one side as the candle burns and will eventually cause uneven heating of the candle walls. To prevent this problem, after extinguishing your candle and before the wax pool solidifies, take a tooth pick or other similar item and gently nudge the wick back to the center of the wax pool. This will set up your candle for it's next use and prolong it's lifespan.

 

 

TRAVEL TIN

 

The first time you light your candle is the most important one. Allow your candle to burn to form a complete melt pool. The melt pool should reach all sides of the tin and be approximately 1/4 inch deep.

 

Never move the travel tin while lit. The outside of the tin could become hot.

 

Trim your wick to 1/4 inch or less before each time you burn your candle. This practice is crucial to proper candle performance and a clean burn.

 

 Protect your candle from drafts. Drafty conditions cause incomplete and uneven combustion. Brief puffs of smoke can result. Drafts can also cause the flame to unevenly melt the side walls of your candle which frequently ruins a perfectly good candle. If the candle flame is dancing, the candles life is being shortened.

 

 Remove foreign matter from the wax pool. Items such as match heads, bits of wick, moths and other foreign matter along with becoming an unsightly mess can become secondary wicks and create an inferno when you least expect it, often ruining a perfectly good candle or worse.

 

 

 

PLEASE: use common sense when burning candles. We could list about 500 things you shouldn't do when burning candles, most of them are matters of common sense and safety. Don't ever leave a burning candle unattended. Don't burn your candles near curtains, blankets, shower curtains, lace lingerie, Christmas trees, aerosol sprays of any kind including hair spray, or anything else that could possibly catch fire, including children, pets, sleeping bags, rocket fuel, gasoline, kerosene, lacquer thinner, etc, etc.  .