Expanding Your Use of Candles: Tips, Tricks, & Safety First
How to Candle: Tips, Tricks, & Safety First
Candles have been a staple in homes for centuries and although they seem straightforward – everyone candles differently. Whether it’s to relieve stress, add ambiance, or to make your home smell nice, everyone has their own candle practices. We wanted to share how you can expand your own use of candles and incorporate candles in a variety of ways.
- Scent-Scaping: By adding candles of a similar scent family throughout your home, you create a journey into each space.
- Decorating: Candles don’t have to be lit to make an impact. Place tapers throughout your space for a sophisticated look. Opt for tiny tapers or colored ones for added creativity and depth. A bonus is whether lit or unlit, if your candle has a strong throw, you will still smell it.
- Consider your vessel: You can decorate with jar candles by considering your vessel and/or wax color. Create pops of color throughout your home with colored candle vessels or opt for a monochromatic look by purchasing one that is a similar color to each room. Don’t forget, you can also place your jar candle in a decorative holder too.
- Aromatherapy: Scents create memories, but also evoke them. Use fragrance to bring yourself to a calming place or remember a nostalgic memory. Baked cookie candle anyone?
- Holiday Fun: As the holiday festivities arrive, use candles to celebrate. You can opt for the traditional pumpkin spice and fallen leaves or turn your taper candles into mini ghosts with a little DIY for the kids. When Christmas rolls around, light a Juniper scented candle to emanate real pine trees or a Holiday Cookie scented candle to remanence baking cookies with Grandma on Christmas day.
As we celebrate all the ways candles impact our lives, the most important way to candle is safely.
1) Always extinguish your candle correctly. Do not put a candle out with water. This can cause wax to splatter and the glass container to possibly break. Use a candle snuffer.
2) Never leave it unattended.
3) Don’t burn for more than three hours at a time and stop burning the candle when 1/2" wax is left in the container.
Courtesy of the NCA