Are You Aware There May be Toxins in Your Candles?

Last Updated on 25/10/2023 by Candles Recharge

Do you use conventional candles in your home or business premises?

Perhaps you use them to spread a pleasant aroma throughout your home, restaurant or beauty spa. The effect is indeed very pleasing, creating an ambience and atmosphere conducive of romance, or simply a mellow warmness inside.

The bad news is that you could be spreading toxic chemicals into the air. These chemicals could be emitted from paraffin-based candles with a lead-core wick. The two acting together can create indoor air pollution rich in toxic particulate matter that you, your family, or your customers, will breathe in.

Toxins in candles is a very serious matter, and something you need to address if indoor air quality is a concern for you. If you are running a hospitality or beauty business, or a restaurant where people regularly gather to have candlelit dinners, you need to think of your customers’ health.

Most modern candles are made from paraffin, a petroleum waste product. Carcinogenic chemicals are released when it is lit that can adversely affect children and the elderly, as well as the fit and healthy in time.

Metal wicks are sometimes used to slow down the burning process, which prolongs the release of scent. Lead is typically used, making the wicks stiffer and slower burning. This results in lead emissions, which of course will result in lead poisoning if everyone in the building breathes in the candle fumes. You surely would not want high lead concentrations in your home or business premises.

So, what’s the answer? What if you could have flameless candles. Wouldn’t that be a healthier and much safer alternative to toxic candles? Flameless candles, by their very nature, do not emit fumes similar to a diesel engine in the way paraffin wax candles do. No flame means no toxins released, and no heat means no risk of fire either.

Rechargeable candles in sets of 4, designed for the home, and professional sets of 12 rechargeable candles, designed for restaurants, bars, beauty spas, resorts, and even the home too, look and act exactly like traditional candles, but without the serious health risks. Your local store may not stock them, but you can easily buy our flameless candles online at very competitive prices.

Rechargeable candles are:

• Safe to use around children and the elderly
• Completely devoid of carcinogenic chemicals
• Completely devoid of dangerous levels of lead
• Unable to adversely affect indoor air quality
• Virtually indistinguishable from “real” candles

If you really must use traditional lit candles, be sure to avoid the worst kind. These include:

• Cheap candles found in Dollar stores
• Candles imported from third-world countries
• Candles at any price that obviously have metal wicks
• Artificially scented candles, that is, not made from natural ingredients
• Candles made from gel
• Cheap candles that claim to provide aromatherapy (some brands, Febreeze and Glade included, have cheap “aromatherapy” candles that will not provide any beneficial therapeutic effect)

People with weak immune systems will quickly feel the effects of toxic candles. That could be a member of your family, or one of your trusting customers. Rechargeable candles with a realistic flicker effect, in a natural white flame, or an amber flame, look and behave in exactly the same way as a lit candle that is emitting dangerous fumes.

Which would you rather have?