Happy Candles- Gel, Wax, Soy, Handmade, Votive Candles

To ensure the most even burn, pillar candles should be burned long enough to create a pool of wax that comprises most of its diameter.

Did You Know:
The candle is the earliest method of providing illumination. Although a number of refinements have been made to techniques of candle making, there is no basic variance between a candle manufactured in the past and one created today.

Candles are among the earliest inventions of the ancient world. It has cast a light on mans progress centuries ago. However, there is very little known about the origin of candles. Although it is often written that the first candles were developed by the Ancient Egyptians who used rush lights or torches made by soaking the pithy core of reeds in molten tallow, the rush lights had no wick like a candle. It is the Romans who are credited with developing the wick candle using it to aid travelers at dark and lighting homes and places of worship at night.

An area of the suns surface, the size of a postage stamp, shines with the power of 1,500,000 candles one square inch of the suns surface shines as bright as 300,00 candles.