Soy Candles

Body Massage Candles are very new to the marketplace.  They are known by names as: massage oil candles, body candles, body massage candles, or lotion candles.  At first glance they look like any other candle.  The truth is that they are very different.  They are actually massage oil in solid form.  Some are massage oil and lotion combined.  The purpose of a massage candle is to provide a simple method of heating the massage oil before it is applied to the body. 

Massage candles are usually scented with fragrance oils or essential oils.  When they are lit they will produce a pleasing aroma.  Due to the fact that they are intended for skin contact they don’t contain as much scent and are not as strong as a regular candle.  Massage candles are generally safe for skin use.  They don’t get as hot as a traditional candle and are therefore safe to apply on the skin.  They are typically made from all natural ingredients and can include various butters, oils, fragrance oils, and essential oils.  Since Shea butter is a common ingredient, persons with nut allergies should use caution with this product, as it may cause a reaction.  Any massage candle that uses products that contain citrus oils such as: orange, lemon, lime, or bergamot should avoid direct sunlight immediately after its use.  Massage candles are for external use only.

As with the use of any candle, be sure that it is on a stable heat resistant surface and not close to flammable objects while burning.  Don’t move the candle while it is burning and never leave a lit candle unattended.  Always keep massage candles away from children and pets.  It is always best to extinguish the flame with a candle snuffer.

Massage candles are so popular as they provide couples with a romantic and intimate experience.  It is a perfect way to set the mood, as they interact with 3 of the 5 senses, sight, smell and touch.  When the massage candle has lotion added it provides a quality spa experience in the privacy of your own home, that leaves your skin moisturized and delicately scented.

It is simple to use a massage candle.  Light the wick and let it burn 15-20 minutes.  The massage oil will melt and form a pool of warm oil on the top of the candle.  The massage oil will only reach a temperature slightly above normal body temperature.  As your candle is burning you will enjoy its pleasing aroma.  After the 15-20 minutes, snuff the flame out and drizzle a small amount of oil on the area of skin to be massaged.  Be sure to use a small amount, as it goes a very long way!  Then massage the warm oil into the skin and enjoy the moisturizing softness it provides.

Our gourmet body massage soy candles are made with cosmetic grade soy oil, Shea butter, Mango butter, Jojoba oil, Grape-seed oil, Vitamin E, Beeswax, 100% pure, skin-safe fragrance oil or pure essential oil.  We have one of the finest products on the market.  Ingite your love life with a big bang this new year!

Simply put, a container candle is a candle sold in a container, such as a glass jar or metal tin.  A soy container candle is one made from soy-wax from the soybean.  The candles are molded directly inside their respective container with the hot soy-wax.  The soy candle is made to be stored and burned in its original container.  Using a soy container candle provides for greater safety from being a fire hazard.  You can find a wide range of containers ranging in many sizes, shapes, styles and materials.  You can even find container candles made from recycled materials. 

Scented soy container candles come with lids to keep the fragrance contained until you want to burn the candle.  A lid makes it easy to transport the soy candle from one room to another.  The lid also prevents the scent from becoming overwhelming when not in use, as it can permeate other objects.

You can make your own soy container candle at home.  Just purchase some soy-wax and collect your choice of container and go to work on your own creation.  Happy Holidays!  

If you are interested in doing your own aromatherapy with essential oils there are a few basic ones that aromatherapy experts recommend purchasing.  You can find them in any local health food store and are relatively inexpensive to purchase.  The essential oils are citrus oils, floral oils, lavender, peppermint, rosemary and tea tree.  These oils are versatile and safe to use for beginners.  

To enhance your mood, try one of the citrus oils you purchased: lemon, lime, orange, or grapefruit.  Your floral oils are great for stress relief: lavender, peppermint and rosemary.  Lavender is a versatile oil, can be used for bruises, insect bites, cuts, sleep and for stress relief inhalation.  Peppermint eases stomach aches and stimulates a tired feeling.  Rosemary is invigorating and works best in inhalation from a diffuser, aroma lamp or directly from the bottle.  Tea tree oil can be used as a mild antiseptic, apply it directly to the skin to heal cuts and pimples. 

Essential oils can be used in different ways in your home.  Some ideas are adding them to your humidifier, vaporizer, diffusers, spray bottles of water, baths, lamp rings, candle wax, or just inhalation directly from the oil bottle.  If you are thinking of using your essential oil internally, be sure and consult a medical doctor first.  Some oils are dangerous if used this way.  You should always research the essential oil you are planning on using beforehand to know its side effects if any and how best to use it.  A special note for pregnant women, you should avoid certain oils.  They are calamus, mugwort, pennyroyal, sage, wintergreen, basil, hyssop, myrrh, marjoram and thyme. 

To preserve your oil be sure and store it in a cool, dark place.  A dark, tinted glass bottle is best.  Light can damage the essential oil. 

Try using a gourmet body massage soy candle from the spa collection for a true aromatherapy experience.  Share it with your spouse for a romantic get-away and indulge yourself to a full body massage in your own home.  Great gift idea for use in the cold winter months ahead to help stay warm.   

Essential oils have three classifications: top note, middle note, base note.  These describe the evaporation rate of the oil.  The fragrance will last only a certain amount of time, depending on what note it is.  Here is the breakdown of the notes.

1. Top note: lasts for 3-24 hours, the most stimulating due to the fact it is the most strongly scented.  Examples of top note: basil, bergamot, clary sage, coriander, eucalyptus, lemongrass, neroli, peppermint, sage and thyme.
2. Middle note: lasts about 2-3 days, affect the metabolic and body functions, fragrance or scent is less potent than top note.  Examples of middle note: balm, chamomile, fennel, geranium, hyssop, juniper, lavender and rosemary.
3. Base note: lasts up to a week at the maximum, have a sweet and soothing scent, relaxes the body.  Examples of base note: cedarwood, clove, frankincense, ginger, jasmine, rose and sandalwood. 

Essential oils are very potent and are usually diluted with carrier oils or base oils.  Don’t confuse base note essential oils with base oils.  Unless essential oils are diluted they are very irritating to the skin.  A carrier oil is a vegetable oil derived from the fatty portion of the plant usually from the seeds or kernels or the nuts.  They carry the essential oil onto the skin.  Each carrier oil provides a different combination of characteristics and therapeutic properties.  Start with the therapeutic benefit wanted and then decide on what carrier oil to use.  Carrier oils do not evaporate and have only a faint sweet nutty aroma.  They however can go rancid and will then have a strong, bitter aroma.  True carrier oils are generally cold-pressed vegetable oils.  The most popular carrier oils are Sweet Almond and Grapeseed.   Here are some other carrier oils:

• Apricot kernel
• Avocado
• Evening Primrose
• Hazelnut
• Jojoba
• Olive oil
• Peach kernel oil
• Sunflower
• Wheatgerm oil
• Borage
• Cocoa Butter
• Kukui
• Macadamia Nut
• Peanut
• Pecan
• Rose Hip
• Sesame
• Shea Butter
• Cranberry Seed
• Meadowfoam
• Pomegranate
• Seabuckthorn Berry
• Hemp Seed
• Watermelon Seed
• Fractionated Coconut

Our gourmet body massage soy candles combines the use of these carrier oils: Grapeseed Oil, Jojoba Oil and Shea Butter.  They come in over 50 different fragrances.  You can get a truly relaxing total body massage in the privacy of your own home when you use a gourmet body massage soy candle. 

The basis of how essential oils works on our body through inhalation is as follows;

1. They have an immediate effect on our sense of smell or also know as olfaction. 
2. When we inhale essential oils our olfactory receptors are stimulated.
3. This is transmitted to the limbic system, which is the emotional center of our brain.
4. The limbic system is connected to the areas of our brain that operate the memory, respiratory or breathing, circulatory or blood, and the endocrine glands.
5. The endocrine glands regulate different hormone levels in our body.
6. The property of the essential oil that was inhaled, will determine what system is involved and what kind of stimulation occurs.

Essential oils are also effective when used topically or on the skin.  When used in massage oils the route of administration is two-fold.  One in the inhalation of the oil, thus working as explained above, and two in a topical application as the oil is massaged into the skin. 

1. Topically, they penetrate the skin tissues.
2. Next they find their way into the bloodstream or circulatory system.
3. Here they are transported to the organs and other systems of the body.

How many of you have been to the spa and had a terrific massage with a wonderful smelling massage oil?  Now you can have that massage right in the comfort of your own home with a gourmet body massage soy candle.  Share the experience with your loved one and spread the love around!

Aromatherapy is a term used to refer to various traditions making the use of essential oils.  They could sometimes be used in conjunction with other alternative medical practices and spiritual beliefs.  Common use of aromatherapy products include medicine, massaging products, and any topical application that includes the use of essential oils.  Aromatherapy is a form of alternative medicine using essential oils {EOs} and various aromatic compounds from the plant.  The purpose is to affect your mind or health.  When the plant is used to make essential oils only the monoterpenes and sesquiterpenes are recovered.  This is what makes them unique from other herbal products in which the lighter phytomolecules are recovered with the distillation process. 

There are various routes of administration of aromatherapy compounds.  Included are: 

1.  direct inhalation-used for respiratory disinfection, decongestant, expectoration as well as psychological effects.
2. aerial diffusion- used for aerial disinfection or environmental fragrances.
3. oral, vaginal, rectal- used for infection, congestion, parasites, perfume for body scenting, and anointment’s.
4. topical applications- used for general massage, baths, compresses, and therapeutic skin care.

Then there is the use of aromatherapy in candles.  This route of administration would be be direct inhalation.  Another route would be with topical application when using a gourmet body massage soy candle from the spa collection.  The fragrances offered are Citrus Fantasy, Cool Breeze, Enchanted Journey, Lavender Fields, Pleasant Dreams and Sensual Moments.  With cold weather coming snuggle up close to that special someone and offer them a body massage to take away the winter blahs.  These special soy candles will add vigor to your love life. 

Aromatherapy is vastly growing in the field of alternative medicine.  It is used in clinics, hospitals, hospice, and homes.  Its uses are in pain management and rehabilitation.   It also has usage with a healing effect of the mind and spirit.  After being inhaled or applied to the skin aromatherapy essential oils can provide and promote hormonal balance, calmness, stress relief, rejuvenation and much more. 

Essential Oils are aromatic essences extracted from grasses, seeds, plants, flowers, trees, fruits and bark.  They have a distinctive therapeutic, psychological, and physiological property which can improve and help prevent illness.  There are over 300 essential oils on the market today.  They have associated with them these properties: antiseptic, antiviral, anti-inflammatory, pain relief, antidepressant, and expectorant.  Some have the benefit of stimulation, relaxation, improvement of the digestion , and diuretic properties{ helping to rid the body of excessive fluids}.  To obtain any benefit from using essential oils they should be pure and natural, made from the raw material.  Synthetically made oils do not have the same benefits.

Body massage soy candles are made using pure essential oils in the spa collection.  They will heighten your senses of sight, touch and smell.  They will rejuvenate, hydrate and soften your skin.  Most of all they will ignite your love life.  Share one today with your special someone! 

Essential oils have been used by the Greeks, Romans, and Ancient Egyptians for bathing, body massages, and for embalming the dead.  It did not have a word then to describe the practice but today we do.  In 1930 a French chemist by the name of Rene Maurice Gattefosse coined the term for the therapeutic use of essential oils as aromatherapy.  He had burnt his hand and applied lavender oil to it and realized there was no scar left.  This began his study of the use of essential oils for their psycho-therapeutic benefits.  In World War II, French army surgeon Dr. Jean Valnet used essential oils as antiseptics.  Then later Madame Marguerite Maury began prescribing essential oils as remedies for her patients, elevating aromatherapy as a holistic therapy.  Also credited to her is the modern day usage of essential oils in massage.

Today you can have your own personal body massage with essential oils in the form of a gourmet body massage soy candle.  This new form of a soy candle will heighten your love life.  Each candle has enough for 10 full body massages.  You can choose from over 50 fragrances. 

The nutrient rich oils contained in the gourmet body massage soy candle will rejuvenate, soften and hydrate the skin leaving it deeply moisturized.  Along with improving skin resiliency and texture, the massage soy oil blend will leave your skin luxurious, silky smooth and delicately scented.

The gourmet body massage soy candles are environmentally friendly and made using only the finest ingredients available: cosmetic, grade soy oil; grape-seed oil; Shea butter; mango butter; jojoba oil; vitamin E; and beeswax.  Candles from the spa collection include only 100 % pure essential oils to achieve a true aromatherapy experience.  The other collections are produced using only skin safe fragrance oils.

Why not give your loved one and yourself a true aromatherapy experience in the comfort of your own home.  Enjoy and relax with a gourmet body massage soy candle!

Beeswax is one of nature’s best moisturizers. In addition to the wax’s moisturizing capability, it’s also a natural alternative to candle wax. Beeswax candles burn longer and cleaner than ordinary wax candles. This type of candle also gives off more light and heat than other candles.Burning beeswax candles in your home creates negatively-charged ions which clean the air of positive ions such as dust, toxins, mold, pollen, viruses and bad odors. Beeswax candles can improve the symptoms of allergy suffers and other environmental sensitivities.

A recent ingenious invention is beeswax massage oil candles. These candles provide all the air-cleaning benefits and double as a moisturizer and massage oil for your skin. Massage oil candles are meant to be kept by your bed and lit whenever you’re in the mood to get or give a massage.

With the cooler months just around the corner, I tend to burn more soy wax candles because I am in inside more.  Below are some soy candle safety tips to ensure a safer burn experience in your home.

• Burn on a heat resistant surface.
• Keep lit candle out of reach of children and pets.
• Never leave lit candles unattended.  Keep your lighted candle within sight.
• Never burn a candle near anything that can catch on fire.
• Read and follow all manufacturer instructions and warnings carefully.
• Trim the wick to 1/8 inch each time before burning.
• Use an appropriate candle holder, that will not tip over accidentally.
• Keep burning candle away from drafts, vents and air currents.
• Extinguish if your candle smokes, flickers repeatedly, or the flame becomes too high.  Cool and trim the wick.  Check for drafts and then re-light.
• Keep the wax pool free of wick trimmings, matches and debris.
• Always burn candles in a well ventilated room.
• Extinguish the flame if it comes too close to the holder or container.  For a safety margin, stop burning a candle when 2 inches of wax remains, 1/2 inch if in a container.
• Never touch or move a votive or container candle when the wax is liquid.
• Extinguish a pillar candle if the wax pool approaches the outer edge.
• Place lighted candles at least 3 inches apart.

Enjoy the winter months by enhancing your sense of smell, sight, and touch with soy wax candles, soy wood wicks and soy body massage candles.  Happy winter months ahead!