Candle Wicks, Candles and Safety

Executive Summary about Candles Wick by Tobey Craft

Candle wicks

Approximately 80 percent of the wicks manufactured in the United States are made of all-cotton or cotton-paper combinations and 20 percent are primarily metal- and paper-cored wicks.

NCA-member manufacturers voluntarily discontinued using lead wicks in the mid-1970s, and in 2000, asked all U.S. candle manufacturers to join its members in signing a formal pledge not to use lead wicks.

The metal-core wicks sometimes found in candles are typically zinc- or tin-core wicks. After much reading about wicks, I began to wonder if the inexpensive candles I was purchasing at wholesale places had good/bad wicks.

That is one of the reasons I started looking for wholesale candles that had the following criteria:

• Good wicks
• Gentle fragrance, not overpowering but a gentle smell that permeates throughout the house.
• Made from beeswax with some paraffin for a good burn.
• Many good colors and scents to choose from.
• Would burn as prescribed in literature regarding the candle.

Our handmade candles have a light fragrance, good wicks with cotton centers, burn correctly and are within anyone’s budget.

To guarantee that our candles do burn correctly, I added several candle burning tips on my site and have placed several burning tips within my blog on Word Press.

We have gone the extra mile by working on deadlines, giving extra candles when we found that our manufacturer no longer carried that particular candle being offered to the public and we have made several changes to Tobey’s Candles. We have added new candles.

Wooden Wick Candles

Executive Summary about Candles Wick by Dawn Casale

Everyone can appreciate the power of candles. If you haven’t heard of them, that’s alright, wood wick candles are a newer style of candle on the market. Instead of the cotton wick you are accustomed to seeing coming out of the center of candles, wood wick candles have just what the name says, a wick made out of wood. That small stick is your new wick.

Here are a few benefits of a wood wick candle:

You will hear that old familiar crackling sound as the flame breaks apart the pieces of the wood that make up the candle wick.

Even without any scent in the candle, the wood wick will give off a scent of it’s own. It’s a light wood-burning scent. Wood wick candles can last 100 hours or more, depending on the size of the candle. It is important to note that the flame from wood wick candles can get higher than regular candlewick flames. When you want to up the impact of wood wick candles, you can add scents into the mix. While you already have the scent of burning wood coming from the candle, and for many people that is enough, if the candle itself is scented, that will add another layer of scent.

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