Keep it lit: How to choose and handle candles for your home 

Our relationship with pillar candles, and the myriad of tapers and oil lamps used through the ages, has been fraught with tension. 

Did you know that beeswax is not regarded as being vegan, but paraffin wax is? It’s bad practice to blow a candle out (it should be snuffed), and a scented candle can ruin the taste of your meal?

Using plants, whale fat and beef tallow, we have been bathed in candlelight for 5000 years. The first candles were the cores of reeds taken from the Nile, soaked in wax. Since then, our relationship with pillar candles, and the myriad of tapers and oil lamps used through the ages, has been fraught with tension.