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Why Burn Candles in the Spring and Summer Months?

While burning candles in the Fall and Winter months are popular to create a warm, cozy atmosphere indoors when it's cold outside, lighting candles in Spring and Summer brings lovely scents that fill your home with freshness to help welcome and celebrate the warmer seasons. Whether you love sweet florals like lilac or honeysuckle, ocean or beachy scents, or bright, clean citrus scents, we have something to help uplift and enhance your Spring and Summer moods and activities! Nothing beats the soft, warm glow of candlelight for warm-weather dinners and parties outdoors, relaxing on the porch, night swimming in the...
See Bittersweet Candle Co in Redfin's Halloween Scents blog!

Fall isn't complete without cozy candles! While the leaves are changing and the weather is getting chilly, Fall and Halloween scents fill the air: pumpkin spice, bonfires, woodsy and mysterious fragrances help to celebrate the season. Read this fun Redfin blog post about scrumptious Fall and Halloween candle scents. Bittersweet Candle Co is featured in #5! https://www.redfin.com/blog/halloween-scents/ Whether you’re hosting a ghoulish gathering in your apartment in Annapolis, MD, or curling up with a good horror novel in your house in Harrisburg, PA, these captivating aromas will create an atmosphere that’s both haunting and inviting, making your Halloween experience unforgettable. Be sure...
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Paraffin wax dangers

As a nurse, I am particularly concerned with the potential adverse health effects of burning candles, what chemicals we might be breathing as we burn them, and how to make our air as clean and healthy as possible. Soy wax, which are what our candles are 100% made from, is a natural, renewable, vegan, plant resource. It burns cleanly without releasing dangerous chemicals and soot into the air. Paraffin wax, however, is derived from the production and refining of oil and gasoline, a NON renewable resource, that releases hazardous chemicals and black soot when burned. The EPA has concluded that...