Ingredients

Scents with benefits

We use essential oils and natural fragrance as often as possible, which comes with additional benefits. Many of our oils and scents have wellness support including mood enhancing, sleep, stress, energy, and more. We look for oils and fragrances that, when inhaled, provide more than just a pleasant smell. Some examples of the benefits of various oils and scents we use are:

  • Bergamot: help reduce pain such as migraines as well as improved sleep

  • Rosemary: lower cortisol levels, boost mood, relieve fatigue

  • Sandalwood: help relieve stress and anxiety

  • Sage: stress relieving and aids in balancing menstrual hormones

  • Lavender: promotes healthy sleep patterns and calm the nervous system

  • Cedarwood: calming, grounding, clears the mind and supports concentration

Human safe

Our scents are free from phthalates, mutagens, carcinogens, and toxins while also being vegan and cruelty free. We work with suppliers who have rigorous testing standards, typically above and beyond what is required by the FDA or IFRA.

Supplier standards.

It’s important that every product focuses on quality, safety, sustainability, and responsibility. Because of this, we’ve chosen specific partners that meet these standards whether it’s the fragrances, the wax, the packaging, etc. Here are some of the standards that we uphold through practices and suppliers we work with.

 

Fragrance

Fragrance is a mysterious ingredient that has long evaded thorough scrutiny by the FDA. We focus on using essential oils or natural fragrances whenever possible, and all scent ingredients comply with strict safety standards especially if we can’t use essential oils. Essential oils cost significantly more money but not only are they safer, they are also a much truer smell to the scents that we’re building for each candle.

Wax

Wax serves as the base of all candles (duh) therefore is the largest ingredient in volume. Because of that, it’s important that this also meets our standards. We use only soy wax, never paraffin, ensuring we aren’t relying on petroleum or including harmful or non-sustainable ingredients in each candle. In addition, our waxes are biodegradable, carginogen-free, mutagenic-free, paraben-free, phthalate-free, and toxin-free which means you never have to worry about what you’re burning.

Vessel and packaging

Our vessels are beautifully crafted pieces, and both sizes are intended to have life beyond the candle. Each 10oz candle has a seed card included in it, and once your candle is done (read “candle care” to learn how to clean it out), the seed card can get planted to turn the vessel from a candle into a pot of wildflowers. We believe as many components of our products should serve more than one purpose as often as possible!

We try to source packaging that is made from recycled materials, easily recycled, reused, or repurposed, is from ethically and environmentally focused producers, and is as minimal as possible. Our candle and box labels are paper and made with 30% post-consumer waste content and our packing crinkle paper is reused from other packages we receive.

Other components

There are many other items that are part of each candle, such as wicks and shipping packaging. Our wicks are natural flat cotton and are lead and zinc free. We’ve also put focus on finding the best materials with an eye on sustainability and environmental impact. This is an ever evolving area of our business and we will continue to find new and better suppliers, materials, and ingredients whenever possible.

The made better™ badge verifies that we are a company that prioritizes sourcing clean and eco friendly materials in all we do, so that you can rest assured.

Creating moments of pause and escape, through the magic of candles.

Hi! I’m Lauren and am the founder and head creator of L[dot] Candle Co. and I want to share a bit of its origin story.

It all began with a pandemic, and a burning creative drive. The pandemic left me cooped up and restricted, both physically and creatively, so I took a virtual candle making class to express some pent up creative and physical energy. As I began making candles, my creative spirit lit up and it soon became a way of transporting me to other places and times. I was able to recreate smells from fond memories of the past, of places that brought me great joy. Although I couldn’t physically be there, the scents I began to create took me there…mentally, emotionally, spiritually. 

Smell is the sense most closely tied to memory, and I realized that the candles I was creating could be the catalyst of more than just nice ambiance. Thus was born the name, L [dot], representing the concept of traveling to latitudes and longitudes of special memories, anytime, anyplace, anywhere, just by lighting a candle. The candles became the catalyst for transport, escape, reminiscing, and making of new memories. 

The candles are my love letter to memories. Both old and new.

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