Scented Candles, Wedding, and Decorative Candles

Welcome to dscandles.com. Our site is dedicated to gathering and sharing the newest information about candle products, uses and safety.  Dscandles.com is designed strictly for informational purposes. We do not promote or endorse any particular brand or product.

This site was created to provide interested individuals with the best information about various candle products and usage.

There are over 400 commercial candle manufactures in the United States alone. Major candle companies will typically make anywhere from 1,000 to 2,000 different types of candles in their product lines, making the availability, use and assortment of candles virtually endless.  With such a variety, it is no wonder that candles are used in seventy percent of American households.

The use of candles can be traced back to 3,000 B.C., when Egyptians used them to light homes at night, guide travelers, and for various religious ceremonies. Now days, despite the invention of electricity and the light bulb, candles are still a very popular household commodity.  Candles are now used for decoration, relaxation, and for other more fundamental purposes.

Decorative, pillar, floating, scented, gel, soy, glass, jar, aromatherapy, and tealight candles are among the more common type of candles, but there are many more out there. Each type of candle serves a different purpose, or purposes, such as providing a pleasant or relaxing aroma, making a home more aesthetically pleasing, or simply lighting up an area with a softer light. 

Candles are becoming more and more popular as focal points for home decoration.  With the vast range of decorative candles available now, it isn’t hard to find a candle to fit perfectly with any particular room or event’s theme.  Pillar and glass candles provide a very elegant, classy look for weddings or fancy dining rooms. Unique molded wax and gel candles come in a variety of shapes, sizes and figures such as tropical fish, fruit, flowers, and seashells to decorate bathrooms and kitchens.

For holidays like Christmas, Halloween and Easter, candles are great gifts and great festive decorations. Wax and gel molded candles of snowmen, Santa’s, bats, trees, eggs, pumpkins, etc., are fun ways  to decorate for holiday parties and events. Pillar, jar, floating and scented candles also come in a variety of festive colors, shapes and figures.  Even birthday candles come in many different shapes and sizes with many different features.

Approximately 75 to 80 percent of candles are scented. Most candle consumers feel that scent is the most important factor when deciding between candles. However, with approximately 10,000 scents available now, scent is not always an easy choice. Pillar, gel, and floating candles can be scented, but most commonly, when buying strictly for scent purposes, jar candles are the best way to go.

Candles are usually made from various waxes such as beeswax, soy wax, palm wax, paraffin wax and various blends of these of waxes.  Paraffin wax is the most common wax being used right now, however soy wax is growing fast in popularity as it is more economically friendly and cost about the same amount to make.  Although each of these waxes has different good and bad qualities, there is no wax that is clearly “better” than another.

The various types and uses of candles are what make them so popular in homes, restaurants, events and as gifts and spa supplies. The different pages of this website will more thoroughly go into depth about different candles and candle accessories, their uses and some safety tips.

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