Caring for Your Candles

Want to know how to make your candles or tealights last even longer? How to get the most from your scent and keep your home safe when burning your candles? Well read on for more info and a how-to guide from a candle maker and scent creator.

How to Get the Most Out of your Candle

With the cost of living going up, every one is trying their best to get the most of everything they buy. And why should your candles be any different? If you are paying good money for good candles, you need to ensure you can burn them for as long as possible to save money in the long run.

When you first burn any candle (tealight or otherwise!) you must burn it for several hours for the first burn. For larger container candles this should be 3 to 4 hours (or until the top is fully melted) and for our Tealights this is about 30 minutes. It will avoid tunneling (which is that annoying thing when the wax only burns around the wick!). If you get tunneling it is hard to burn the candle to the edges the next time without making a foil lantern (I will show you this technique in a later blog!)

For the perfect scent, I would suggest burning at least 2 tealights at once. Keep them a few inches apart, so they don't melt one another or create their own drafts. 

Prior to burning your candle, each time trim the wick down to about ¼ inch tall with a wick trimmer. This prevents uneven burning, dripping or flaring. You can buy wick trimmers for fairly cheap online (just search on Amazon!) but if you don't have a wick trimmer you can use your fingers to simply pinch the blackened wick. Just make sure the candle has fully cooled down when you do so! 

Avoid drafts, vents or air currents. This will help prevent rapid or uneven burning, sooting, and excessive dripping.

Use a candle snuffer to extinguish a candle, if available, as it’s the safest way to prevent hot wax from splattering. I NEVER blow out a candle - it can also blow wax onto the wick, drowning the wick and making the candles unusable. Again, snuffers are cheap to buy online and if you buy any candle accessory, this is the one you should buy.

Don't forget Candle Safety

Do not touch or move the candle until it has completely cooled.

Remember to Recycle 

As these tealights burn evenly and all the way down to the very end, to recycle the cups, just simply pop out the wick and place the aluminium cup into your recycling box! Easy peasy!