How to care for your luxury candle

All of our candles are hand made to ensure you get hours of scented enjoyment.

To get the maximum enjoyment from your gorgeous luxury candle, you need to keep them looking and working at their best. To do this please follow our tips to help achieve this

Before you light your candle

1.        Remove your candle from its packaging and breathe in the beautiful aroma.

2.        Remove any tags/dust covers and any other decorations before lighting.

How to burn your candle

1.        Burn your candle for approx. 4 hours at a time to prevent tunnelling. This is particularly important on the first burn to ensure you get a good melt pool, allowing the wicks to soak up the wax and burn more evenly. If you do not get a full melt pool do not worry as it will catch up on the next burn unless you have only burnt the candle for a brief period

2.        Soy wax has a memory so if you do not get a good melt pool on your first burn, your candle will tunnel and continue to do so on subsequent burns which means it will not last as long.

3.        Burning a candle for longer than 4 hours can sometimes affect your vessel which can get too hot and potentially crack.

4.        Candle burns times can vary dependant on your environment. A cold room a candle may burn for a longer period, but the fragrance may not be as strong. The hotter the room the faster the candle may burn. An ambient room temperature will give off the best fragrance.

5.        Do not leave your candles in direct sunlight. The fragrance within the candle will evaporate. If your candle comes with a lid, we recommend that you put the lid on your candle when not using.

Wick Care (Important)

1.        Trim your wick between each burn keeping it at 5mm above the surface of the wax. Not trimming your wick correctly will affect the way your candle burns and can cause sooting

2.        Candles can sometimes produce smoke when first lit or when extinguished after the first burn

3.        Burning the candle for too long can cause the wicks to slant. Straighten your wick after burning to ensure an even burn and prevent a high flame and sooting

4.        Sometimes wicks can develop mushrooming. This can happen for a number of reasons but do not worry all you need to do is trim the wick before re lighting to ensure continuous burning.

5.        If you leave a mushroom on your wick and relight it, you will get sooting and black smoke.

6.        Only trim your wick when the wax is cold to avoid any damage to your skin.

7.        We recommend wick trimmers to care for your wick. Wick trimmers are designed to catch the black embers of the wick when trimming and help prevent them from falling into your candle which can ruin the aesthetic appeal of the wax.

Burning your candle

1.        Ensure that the surface your candle is on is flat and draft free. A sloping surface can cause your candle to burn incorrectly, and a draft can cause your flame to flicker and smoke.

2.        Ensure that you place your candle on a mat or something similar to protect any furniture or surfaces.

3.        Do not place your candle too close to walls as you may get some soot marks which may damage your wallpaper. 

4.        Discontinue using the candle when only 5 mm of wax is left, or you can see the metal wick holder. This ensure that your candle doesn’t burn dry and cause the candle jar to shatter

Extinguishing your candle

1.        We recommend you use a candle snuffer to extinguish the flame. This prevent hot wax been blown onto surrounding surfaces

2.        If you do blow out your candle, ensure you do not get to close to the flame.

3.        Blow the flame out gently, if you blow too hard wax may splash back onto your skin and causing burns.

Candle fragrance

1.        The strength of the fragrance will be affected by your room size. A large room is more difficult to scent than a smaller room.

2.        If you have an open plan room, you may want to burn more than one candle in different areas of the room to achieve the fragrance level you desire.

3.        All fragrances have a different scent level. Some have a strong powerful fragrance which will fill your room with a strong beautiful aroma, other fragrances have a more subtle scent level which will gentle fill your room but will not be as strong.     

4.        Fragrance & sent level is a personal choice. Obtain your desired scent level by testing in different sized rooms or by burning more than one candle of the same fragrance to achieve your desired result.

Candle soot

1.        Candle soot can appear on your vessel. This is due to your candle getting hotter the further down the vessel it burns.

2.        If you want to remove any sooting marks this do so when your candle is fully cold. Use a clean dry soft cloth to remove the soot and if this does not work dab a little pure alcohol on the cloth and wipe away the soot. Be careful not to damage your wick and it is advisable not to use water. Water in your candle can cause it to spit.

Candle safety

1.        Always burn in a safe place away from children and pets and anything flammable

2.        Always burn your candle on a flat, heat-resistant surface

3.        Don’t burn multiply candles too close to each other or near any draughts.

4.        Take care when blowing out a candle. Do not blow to hard or you will spray wax onto surrounding surfaces and can blow wick embers onto flammable surfaces causing damage or fires.

5.        Do not get to close to the naked flame when blowing out, we recommend using a candle snuffer to ensure the candle is snuffed out in safest feasible way.

6.        Always double check your candle has gone out fully before leaving.  

7.        Avoid burning candles close to curtains or fabric as these can be highly flammable. Opening a door can cause a draft, positioning your candle too close to anything flammable can be a fire risk.

 

Enjoy your candle

The Daisy Candle Team