Buyers guide - How to find handmade candles that are both smokeless candles and dripless candles

1. Handmade Candles
Classic Candles to Buy Online
Rodger Cresswell 1st September 2010

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Handmade Candles – Classic Candles to Buy Online
Handmade candles of course are nothing new, the first were produced out of
necessity.
It seems hard to believe to us in this day and age that to have light you could not
just flick a switch and have the magic of electricity provide all the light you could
ever want. Perhaps gas light was not quite so convenient, there was the need to
use a taper or other form of lighter to ignite the gas having first turned the knob
to get the gas to flow. Also gas was noisier and flickered which did not always
make reading a book or newspaper a pleasurable experience. Where today we
occasionally have to change a light bulb in the days of gas it was the very delicate
gas mantle that seemed to explode the first time it was ever lit but then was fine
until you accidently touched it, and the gentlest of touches at that, to see it
disintegrate into dust before your very eyes!
But everything is relative as they say. Gas lighting to us may not seem very
convenient or practical but it was a whole lot better than what went before. Just
imagine those first handmade candles that were created from animal fat. The
smell of fat being rendered is not the nicest odour so you can imagine what it
must have been like to be sitting having the family meal as the wick burned down
through the animal fat. Delightful!
Thankfully technology moved on in candle manufacture to produce something
more pleasurable to use but let us not forget that the vast majority of people
would not have been able to afford lighting produced using the better materials.
From those early days and far from ideal days many different candles have been
produced, wide selection of shapes and sizes, colours to blend in with your home
colour scheme, insect repellent for outdoor use to keep those annoying insects at
bay and thankfully ones that are smokeless and dripless. It seems strange to think
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that the highest quality are those that are handmade which almost seems like we
have gone right back to the beginning, but of course it is the material that they
are mad from that makes all the difference.
Handmade candles do not come any better than beeswax
dinner candles.
That seems like a bold statement but what we are talking
about are candles that are 100% bees wax and poured by
hand.
When you open the box it is obvious that they are not made from ordinary wax.
Removing the paper from each one that is individually wrapped reveals an elegant
candle that looks too good to burn.
They look really well in a candelabra used purely for decorative purposes but lit
they add a bit of class to any room or occasion.
You can buy smokeless candles that are also dripless. Being non drip there is the
bonus that most of the wax is burnt and not wasted by pouring down the side and
making a mess of your table setting. Candles with these credentials are first class,
of that there is little doubt. But add handmade and beeswax into the equation
and you have something so fine that anyone would be proud to display as their
dinner table centrepiece.
Although these handmade candles are smokeless there is the delicate scent of
bees wax that does not overpower when used for a dinner party or indeed an
intimate and romantic dinner for two.
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As you might expect, custom made candles manufactured totally from bees wax
and individually made by hand definitely will not be cheap. But quality comes at a
price and there can be no question that these are of a high calibre and can only be
classed as top of the range.
Where to buy handmade candles ? It can be difficult to source genuine
handmade candles but there is such a variety of candles to buy online so you
should find that a good quality candle shop or store including them in their
offered range.
Handmade Candles - Classic Candles to Buy Online - Rodger Cresswell 1st Sept 2010