Making sure you to take care of your new candle is extremely important if you want the best out of the product and it to perform to its maximum level. Just follows these simple tips to ensure you’re burning your candle safely.
Placement
Never place your candle on a heated radiator cover, and always place on a heat resistant object. Light your candle in a well ventilated room, away from drafts.
Trim your wick
Make sure before each burn your wick is trimmed to approx. 5mm. Long wicks can cause smoking, sooting, and high flames, which can be dangerous. Keep the wax clear of wick trimmings, or any debris that can act as a secondary wick.
Burn time
Burn your candle for at least 2-4 hours, ensuring the melt pool has reached the edge of the vessel each time, this will prevent what is known as “tunnelling”. Candles have a memory, so once tunnelling has happened, you’ll struggle to get a full melt pool again. Tunnelling is when a build up of wax is left around the vessel’s sides. This is the most important on your candles first burn.
Do not burn all the way to the bottom
Make sure to blow your burning your candle out when 10mm of wax remains at the bottom.
Extinguishing your flame
This is best done with a candle snuffer, blowing out a flame can cause wax to splash out or your wick to continue to glow, this emitting smoke. When your flame has been extinguished centre and straighten the wick. Burning for too long can cause the wick to move. If you see a flaming wick come close to the vessel side, extinguish the flame and straighten the wick to prevent the vessel from becoming too hot and cracking.