Why we love to burn candles:
- Candles create a gentle, flickering light that creates a feeling of softness, warmth, and intimacy.
- Candles are renowned for their calming, soothing, and healing properties and are often used to create a peaceful atmosphere that helps soothe the mind and ease the body’s tension.
- Aromatherapy candles that are infused with beneficial essential oils can help induce a sense of well-being, relieve stress, anxiety and depression, improve focus and energy, and promote feelings of relaxation. They are perfect as part of a self-care routine.
- Burning candles during meditation or prayer helps strengthen focus, manifestations, and intentions.
- Scented candles add beautiful fragrance to our homes. A favorite candle fragrance can become a home’s signature scent.
- Scent is strongly linked with memory providing a tie to favorite moments and experiences.
- Candles add style, warmth, coziness, and freshness to any space in your home. Use them as part of a centerpiece during dinner, in the kitchen to clear odors, in the bathroom to create a home spa atmosphere, outdoors to deter mosquitos, to light evening gatherings, and create an ethereal, magical feeling.
- The element of fire represents passion, creativity, energy, strength, courage, desire, purification and rejuvenation.
- Candles are an integral part of many celebrations and remembrances from the candles on a birthday cake symbolizing the years of our lives, to celebrating other milestones such as weddings and anniversaries with romantic, candlelit dinners, to holding vigils for lost loved ones.
- Candles make perfect gifts for yourself and people you love.
- Candles are an essential source of light when no electric light is available, from losing power to living off the grid.
- And most of all, candles provide opportunity for us to listen to our own inner voices, to let go of expectations, deadlines, clock watching, and all the harm the frenzied competition for success creates in our lives. Slow the rhythm down, unplug, take a walk, light a candle, curl up with a good book, drink a glass of wine, watch a movie, take a bath. Be sweet to yourself.