Candle Safty

• Before burning, always trim the wick to ¼ inch. You can use a wick trimmer, nail clippers, or scissors. Long or crooked wicks can cause uneven burning, dripping or flaring.
• Keep the wax pool clear of wick trimmings, matches and debris at all times.
• Always use a candleholder specifically designed for candle use. It should be heat resistant, sturdy, and large enough to contain any drips or melted wax.

• Avoid drafts, vents or air currents. This will help prevent rapid or uneven burning, sooting, and excessive dripping.
• Follow the manufacturer’s recommendations on burn time and proper use. In general, it is recommended that candles do not burn for longer than four hours and cool for at least two hours before relighting.
• When lighting a candle, use long matches or a long-reach lighter. Keep your hair and loose clothing away from the flame.

• Never leave a candle unattended.
• Never burn a candle on or near anything that can catch fire. Keep burning candles away from furniture, drapes, bedding, carpets, books, paper, flammable decorations, etc.
• Keep candles out of the reach of children and pets. Do not place lighted candles where they can be knocked over by children, pets or anyone else.
• Never touch or move a candle while it is burning or while the wax is liquefied.

• Don’t burn a candle all the way down. For a margin of safety, discontinue burning a candle when 1/2 inch remains in the container or 2 inches if using a pillar candle.
• Place burning candles at least three inches apart from one another. This is to make sure they don’t melt one another, or create their own drafts that will cause the candles to burn improperly.

• Extinguish a candle if the flame becomes too high or flickers repeatedly. Let the candle cool, trim the wick, and check for unwanted drafts before re-lighting.
• Never use a candle as a night light or while you may fall asleep.
• Be very careful if using candles during a power outage. Battery-powered lights are safer sources of light during a power failure. Never use a candle during a power outage to look for things in a closet, or when fueling equipment – such as a lantern or kerosene heater.

• Use a candle snuffer to extinguish a candle. It’s the safest way to prevent hot wax from splattering.
• Never use water to extinguish a candle. Water can cause the hot wax to splatter and might break a glass container.
• Make sure the candle is completely out and the wick ember is no longer glowing before leaving the room.
• Don’t touch or move the candle until it has completely cooled.
• Never use a knife or sharp object to remove wax drippings from a glass holder. It might scratch, weaken, or cause the gl

•  Always use a burner which is designed for wax melts because not all wax melts fully melt in non-approved types of burners and not all burners will be safe to use. Wax heats at a higher temperature compared to oil so it’s incompatible with certain oil burners and can pose a fire risk if melted using an incorrect burner. While some types of oil burners can take wax cubes, others cannot. To use, place a wax tart into the burner and then light an unscented tealight underneath it. NEVER ADD WATER!

•  The wax melt warmer should be placed within sight but away from windows, pets, and children. The warmer should be placed on a heat resistant, secure, and stable surface before lighting (if using a tealight candle), and away from flammable objects, such as paper, curtains, plastic, furniture, or any other combustible objects which might pose a fire hazard.

•  A wind draft can carry a tealight candle flame so make sure that the melt warmer is placed away from windows and that there is adequate distance between the candle and any flammable objects. If you want to avoid flames completely, you can use an electrical melt warmer, but these do use a fair amount of electricity.

•  How long a melt warmer lasts, depends on the type and size of the wax melt warmer. An electric warmer can remain on for up to 10 hours consecutively, on average, before the bulb needs to be replaced, and a tealight candle should not be left burning for longer than 4 hours.

• The reason for this is because leaving a candle burning for too long can result in damage to your melt warmer, and can result in wick mushrooming, where the wick ends up longer than usual. Balls of carbon build up on the wick, leading to a larger flame, and more heat, as more wax is pulled up the wick. A wick mushroom is obviously dangerous as a fire hazard, but also damaging to the candle itself because when the carbon balls fall into the melting wax, and when the burning leaves soot. 

• The risk of leaving a burner or warmer unattended, is the possibility that nearby flammable objects might catch on fire, when using a tealight candle. Unattended candles lead to tragic deaths and destruction every year globally. According to the National Candle Association (NCA), in the US there are around 18000 candle-related fires every year, with 36% of those fires being caused by unattended candles. 

• A tealight candle should never be left unattended. Rather extinguish the candle before leaving the room and relight it again upon return. Take precautions to safeguard against these risks by fitting smoke detectors, and by keeping your burner away from combustible items.

• Children and pets can also be a fire hazard. There is the risk that children or pets bump over the melt warmer, or that children accidentally start fires while using it. Children should be educated about the dangers of heat and fire, and if possible, prohibited from using melt warmers and candles. Warmers or burners should also be kept out of reach of pets at home. Pets can easily knock over a melt burner and start a fire by accident. 

Wax melts usually last for between 24 and 36 hours. Once faded, you can still reuse your wax melts by adding essential oils, alternatively you can replace the wax melt with a new one and remove any wax residue.