About

Emerald Elk

About

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A couple of years ago I was at the beginning of my journey to live a low-tox life. When I started researching the topic of everyday items that were actually harmful to us I was noticing the same simple item again and again. Candles.

Those beautiful, scented, glowing candles that we all have in our house, well they can actually be harming us.
For me this was not hard to believe. I would often leave a friends house with a pounding headache after spending the day breathing in her scented candle. Or I would walk into a certain big brand candle store and get watery eyes and a sore head within minutes. It didn't take me long to realise that I was very sensitive to the extra chemicals in my environment that were harmful to me. That black smoke you see coming out the top of your candle, that's soot. Often it's carcinogenic and I was filling my house with it and letting everyone breathe it in.

After doing even more research I found out that there was a more healthy alternative. Soy candles, with a cotton wick. Seems simple enough. No nasties, no chemicals, no additives. Just soy.

Once I realised what was in them, I figured I could make one or two of my own. Thus my love for candles grew stronger and now here we are.
I may not make the most strongly scented candle (triple scented just means triple the chemicals ) but for those of us who are conscious about what we put into our environment and our bodies, then give my candles a try and see how they make you feel.