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Candle Care and Tips

In order to obtain the best results from your candles, please keep these rules in mind.

All candles, especially highly scented, will produce some smoke and soot, but following these rules will help eliminate these problems.

1. Never leave a burning candle unattended!
2. Place on a level and heat resistant surface.
3. Keep burning candle away from children and pets.
4. Keep foreign matter (wick trimmings, matches, etc.) or combustible materials away form burning candles.
5. Do not place near flammable objects such as wall, curtains, etc.
6. Avoid burning candles where there is a draft, this could cause uneven burning and irregular flame.
7. Keep wick trimmed to 1/4 of an inch to avoid black smoking or soot on nearby objects and mushrooming (carbon build up) on the wick.
8. A toenail clipper works well if wick is too hard to reach with scissors.
9. Allow candle to cool before trimming wick or relighting.
10. Never move a burning candle or one that has liquefied. The container will be HOT!
11. To prevent fading, keep candles out of direct sunlight.
12. A candle has a memory. Candles should burn until a melt pool has reached across the top. If the candle is extinguished before a full melt pool has been reached, the next time the candles is lit, the melt pool will only go as far as the time before, leaving wax along the side of the jar.
13. Burn candle no longer that four (4) hours at a time.
14. Do not use lids to extinguish candles. Allow candles to cool completely before replacing the lid on the jar.
15. To distinguish candles snuff them out rather than blowing. Blowing out candles could allow burning pieces of wick or hot wax to land on a nearby flammable surface, it also allows smoke to fill the air.
16. Do not touch melted wax, it will be HOT!
17. To avoid glass containers from shattering; Do not burn a candle in a chipped or cracked container. Leave at least a 1/2 inch of wax in the bottom of the container. Do not allow the flame to touch the sides of the container.
18. To clean containers, put them in the freezer for a couple of hours, the wax will shrink and holding the container upside down tap gently on the bottom to release the leftover wax. If this doesn't work, or doesn't get all the wax out, it may be removed by running very hot water over the container.