12 Days To a Clean Christmas: Day 5 The Best Kind of Warm Glow

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Day 5: Beeswax Candles

  • Homemade (if you choose)

  • Conscious of Environmental Impact

  • Find a Small Business to support!

On the fifth day of Christmas:

Now candles are by no means equivalent to 5 golden rings, but they have some pretty redeeming qualities!

A few key reasons I love Beeswax Candles:

  • They don’t contain the nasty synthetic fragrances and chemicals of conventional candles (aside from naturally scented ones of course)

  • They are said to have negative ions which neutralize pollutants in your environment

  • They give off the most beautiful glow and burn longer and brighter than conventional candles

  • They have this really nice neutral smell that fills up any space they are burning in

I don’t know about you but I absolutely LOVE the glow of a candle. Whether it’s a small tea light or a naturally scented pillar candle, it makes the holiday season, and winter in general that much warmer! When hosting parties and having friends over I love lighting tea-lights throughout my apartment, but I won’t lie that in the last few months the impact of that bulk bag of tea-lights from ikea has started to creep up on me. Every time I go to throw out or ‘recycle’ those little tins, I feel a tinge of remorse. That’s where these adorable little beeswax votives saved the day. i found them while at a craft show this fall and absolutely love that they are waste free, toxin free and give off the most lovely neutral scent!

This could be a perfect purchase from a small business or a DIY gift. Here in Vancouver you can get beeswax from the Soap Dispensary and make your own beeswax candles! Here is a great link to how to make the candles yourself and some more info on beeswax! I purchased all my Beeswax very affordably from this Lower Mainland Company!

This gift will truly warm the hearts of those who receive it ;)