Canova Aromatherapy Candle Eco Product Review

Alas, this is the last candle we have to review from Scented Candle Shop. Each one has been pretty decent in its own right, from tea lights to floating candles and to ones like this, a premium glass aromatherapy candle.

Made by Canova, this is an eco-soy wax candle with natural essential oils and a natural wick. What’s also nice to see is the recycled glass, which may account for the premium price, and the box is also made from recycled cardboard.

Hand poured in the UK, this particular scent is called Brainwave and is designed to “achieve that extra genius in love, work or play”. To do that it includes rosemary (to produce “mental clarity)< lemongrass (to "induce a state of calm") and neroli (to "stimulate the intellect").

What it all adds up to is a lovely smell, sort of fresh and fruity. When lit the smell doesn't dominate a room and doesn't really work as something to mask bad smells, but within a few feet of it the smell is lovely.

I'm not sure whether it helped my grey cells out at all but I quite liked it and with 50 hours of burning time it'll be around for a while. It's melts quite slowly with a very liquidy wax as soy wax goes and the flame is nice and bright.

The Canova Aromatherapy Candle costs £11.69 from the Scented Candle Shop.

Seda France Bon Chic Candle Eco Product Review

Believe it or not, when the Scented Candle Shop sent this candle to be reviewed, an argument broke out. After smelling this Seda France Bon Chic candle everyone wanted to take it home and review.

Of course I won and I’m glad I did. It’s lovely. My previous favourite smelling candle was the Method Soy Candle – which although the wick is burnt out still smells gorgeous – but this is just as lovely. The flavour is plum apricot leaf which means I have no idea whether it smells like it should do, all I know is that I love the smell.

And the scent stays around when it’s lit too, unlike a lot of candles, you immediately notice it as you walk into a room. It may only be a little candle in a tin but it packs a punch. The wax is eco-friendly soy wax so as I’ve said before be careful if you knock it over as the wax turns clear. Although it never gets that hot so you don’t need to worry on that score.

Available in a range of fragrances I would recommend trying them all. The cute packaging would make it a great gift but I’d want to keep it for myself if I was you.

The Seda France Bon Chic candle costs £9.74 from the Scented Candle Shop.

St Eval As Nature Intended Scented Candle Eco Product Review

These St Eval As Nature Intended Scented Candles were scent by the Scented Candle Shop whose range of candles seems to have no end.

This is a triple pack which I lit together but each of the glass jars has a different scent – jasmine and rosewood, hay meadow and fig tree. Each glass votive is beautifully presented with a felt/material butterfly on the outside. The wax itself is vegetable wax and the wick is natural cotton. And the whole lot is handmade in Cornwall in the UK.

The scents come from essential oils and as I mentioned together they give out a lovely smell. One of those that you don’t notice when you sit in the room, but go out and back in and you really notice it.

As with this type of wax it goes very translucent when lit, but you don’t notice as it’s in the glass, you just have to careful not to knock them over on a worktop as you really can’t see where it went!

These St Eval As Nature Intended Scented Candles cost £18.99, slightly expensive but are more of a gift or a treat than some of the others we’ve reviewed.

Heaven Scent Spiced Apple Jar Candle Eco Product Review

This candle from Scented Candle Shop is a little different from all the others we’ve reviewed it is housed in a glass jar.

There’s not much difference though, it’s still 100% organic plant wax handmade from a natural, sustainable plant source. There’s no petroleum based paraffin wax or animal products involved either. All this makes for a very runny wax when the candle is lit so the jar format works very well. The top half centimetre or so melts and turns a little darker than the rest of the candle which is actually quite a nice effect.

The weight of the glass is also an advantage as any little knocks on the candles housed in little tins or pots and suddenly you have near invisible wax over the table or on the floor. This ins’t the case with this one but I did check to see how hot the wax is and once again it’s not hot at all so if you did spill it on you, you’ll be okay.

The scent is quite delicate actually, until you get extremely close when you can smell the apple more strongly.

With a 50 hour burning time and being eco-friendly, it’s hard to fault this candle. The scent could maybe be stronger but I’m not sure you’d want that really.

Heaven Scent Spiced Apple Jar Candle cost £6.29 and is available from the Scented Candle Shop.

Heaven Scent Patchouli Travel Candle Eco Product Review

The Heaven Scent Patchouli Travel Candle from theScented Candle Shop is a subtly scented soothing candle that is perfect for an evening of peace and relaxation.

The candle produces a subtle and relaxing aroma that I can only describe a lovely cross between lemon and incense. Rest assured that the fresh, lemony scent does not smell like cleaning products and unlike other scented candles, is not over-powering. In fact, the aroma may even be a bit too subtle, and it is advisable to place the candle close-by to ensure that you can fully enjoy the scent.

The packaging claims that the patchouli candle is ‘meditative’. I’m not particularly into meditation myself but if you are type of person who likes to light candles to unwind then this is definitely one for you. It would certainly provide a lighter alternative to burning incense.

The candle is made from 100% natural sustainable wax, plant source and essential oil. However, it does come in a plastic pot, which not only reduces the candle’s eco-credentials somewhat (presumably it’s lighter and easier for travelling around, hence the name), but the pot does get pretty hot as the candle is left burning, making it difficult to move around.

The great thing about this candle is that is very self-contained. The wax and oil sit low in the pot so there is no need to worry about dripping wax anywhere. This also means that once blown out, the melted candle then solidifies, ready to be burned and enjoyed again.

The Heaven Scent Patchouli Travel Candle is available from the Scented Candle Shop and costs £3.59.

Rose Organic Pillar Candle Eco Product Review

The Scented Candle Shop has sent us candle lovers at Life Goggles lots of candles to review and some were the same candle just a different scent. And this organic pillar candle is just the rose version of the Sea Breeze candle I reviewed a while back.

So it’s going to be a short review, you can refer to the other review if you like, but this is exactly the same but er pink. Okay, not exactly the same as also the smell isn’t as strong as the Sea Breeze one but it’s just as pleasant.

Made from 100% organic vegan plant wax and natural oils, it’s harder to get a better candle for the environment. It still crystallizes rather than melts but burns nice and evenly. this one left a lattice shell as it burned down too which was a nice effect.

The Rose Organic Pillar Candle costs £1.79 and can be found here.

Heaven Scent Organic Tea Light Candles Eco Product Review

Probably the most popular type of candle out there, tea lights are ubiquitous and seemingly everywhere in our house. So it was nice to receive some organic tea lights to test.

Made by Heaven Scent these unscented tea lights are handmade with 100% organic palm wax, are vegan, handmade and burn cleanly. And they basically work in exactly the same way as other tea lights. Although they look yellowish to begin with, they burn clearly and last a decent amount of time – about 4 hours.

They still come in the little metal holders that non-organic tea lights come in and there’s no information on how environmentally friendly that is or indeed the cardboard box it comes in. But as an alternative to normal tea lights it’s a step in the right direction.

And they’re pretty reasonably priced too. Heaven Scent Organic Tea Light Candles are available from the Scented Candle Shop and cost £3.59 for 24.

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