Candles and How to Use

The right way!

Candles may appear straightforward, but they come with a set of guidelines to ensure your candle-burning experience doesn't go up in smoke. Follow these steps for a safe and delightful flicker.

1. Remember to park your candle on a coaster when it's lit or just too hot to trot. Any fireproof stage will do, as long as the candle doesn't do the wobble dance on it. We've got some rock-solid slate coasters up for grabs on our product page!

2. Before you light up, give that wick a haircut to about 1/4" (snip snip!). Sure, we sell a fancy wick trimmer, but a pair of good ol' scissors will get you that clean burn, a well-behaved flame, and even squeeze more life out of your candle—up to 25% more!

3. Light it up and let it go until the wax pool hits the glass's edge (takes a couple of hours). Skip this step, and your candle will remember where it stopped melting last time, leading to a tunneling adventure and a whole lot of wasted wax.

4. Keep the flame going until the wax says hello to the edges, but call it quits before the 5-hour mark. Let it chill before the next encore. A marathon burn might give your wick a carbon mushroom—that's cool and all, but it might turn your cozy flame into a bonfire.

5. Extinguish your candle with a puff and a popping that lid back on. It's like tucking it in with a warm blanket of its own heat, reducing some of that clingy wax on the walls.

6. Hands off the hot stuff! Don't play hot potato with a candle that's in action, just used, or swimming in molten wax—the glass gets hotter

   than a summer in the Sahara.

7. Keep your candle clear of anything that burns, bounces, or breathes. Basically, if it can knock over your candle, it's a no-go zone.

8. Treat the glass container like your grandma's fine china—it can shatter, so handle with care, and retire it if it's cracked.

9. When your candle's off duty, keep its hat on, and cozy up with its scent within a year, or it might just ghost you with its fragrance.