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HOW TO MAINTAIN AND ENJOY YOUR CANDLES LONGER

Proper candle care is key to enjoying your candles to their fullest potential. Discover essential tips for maintaining your candles, including how to trim wicks, store them correctly, and handle them safely.

Here is what you need:

  1. Scissors or candle wick trimmer
  2. Piece of paper or towel


TRIMMING THE WICK IF NECESSARY

P.S! Not all candles need trimming! If the candle wick is longer than 1 cm (except tealights), it is advised to trim the wick, between 6-10mm, you can trim either with scissors or specially meant candle wick trimmer (it makes trimming the wicks from deeper vessels easier). Make sure your wax is solid as its easier to clean the fallen blackened parts on the surface that are from wooden or cotton wick.


CANDLES DO GET "TIRED"

You probably have seen information "do not burn the candle longer than 3-4 hours at time". What does this mean and why it is written like this way? Well, candles lit because of wax and wick, and if its been burning over 4 hours, the wick starts to collect carbon buildup. Too much carbon on wick puts a candle in struggle to lit. Also the vessel itself can get quite hot and can crack, becoming hazardous. That is why it is important to follow the safety rules! So, simple solution is to after 3-4 hours of burning, use candle snuffer to extinguish instead of blowing it out. Blowing can spread hot wax, create a smoke and odor. Prior burning, trim the wick (to remove the carbon, blackened part).


CANDLE HAS A MEMORY

So what does that even mean? Storing information? YES, information of how "melted pool" the candle surface is looking like before it got blown out. This means, that if you decide to burn your candle for 1 hour and then blow it out you can see that whole surface is usually not fully covered with liquid wax. And candles do mostly save that part how much of the area got liquid while burning, so next time when you lit your candle again, it only melts as much from the surface as last time and starts burning the wax down, creating "tunnel effect", leaving lots of wax unburnt, which becomes a waste, and candle burning time decreases significantly. Tunneling can also occur when the wick is too small for the vessel, so it doesn´t create enough heat to burn down the whole diameter. So each time you burn your candle, make sure that the candle surface is mostly liquid (within 3-4h of burning time), which is also named as "melted pool" before you blow it out.


IF THE CANDLE IS TUNNELING

If you are experiencing a candle tunneling, which most likely happens when:

  1. wick is too small for the candle, which means the wick is overworking but still doesn't have enough energy to get all wax melted, so it is creating a hole and leaves wax walls behind. You can't really do anything about that if it is the wick problem. This happens usually with the mass produced candles or made by people who haven't tested their candles.
  2. wrong wax blends, too much color and heavy in the fragrance load added: if something is too much, it is too much and can't function properly. Same is with candles: some wax blends and scent/colors mixes don't blend well together, which in a result will clog the wick and can't burn the wax properly. There is also a saying Less is more.
  3. you distinguished the the burning candle way too early, especially for the first burn time. If your candles was burning less than 1-2 hours (except the tealights) the wick didn't have time to create the full meltpool yet, so the sides are often untouched and because candles have memory, they continue going to melt as much as they did on the first burn time.
  4. how to fix it: one way you can do is to wrap the candle with aluminimum foil, leave a hole on the top and let the candle burn for some time (KEEP EYE ON IT!!), should take around hour and then check the meltpool (if top is fully melted, you are good to go. Remove the foil and let candle burn longer.


LET THE WAX SOLIDIFY BEFORE DOING ANYTHING ELSE

After blowing out the candle, candle wax is starting to cool down. But you should never cover with any lid while it is solidifying. This could ruin the candle´s scent and wax itself. This is the part of candle care, which is essential to keep the candle burn long enough while looking neat.