The ritual

How to burn it properly

A hand-poured candle behaves differently from a supermarket one. Four habits will roughly double what you get out of it — and the last one you keep.

Ginger Apple Spice · first light

One
The first burn decides the rest
Let the melted pool reach the full edge of the tin before you put it out — two to three hours. Wax has a memory: if the first burn stops short, every burn after it will tunnel down the middle and leave a wall of unused wax behind.
Two
Trim before every light
Take the wick back to about a quarter inch. A long wick burns hot, smokes, and races through the fragrance oil. A short one keeps the flame low and steady, the scent even, and the wax clean rather than sooty.
Three
Three to four hours, no longer
Past about four hours the vessel gets hot enough to affect the burn and the scent flattens out. Put it out, let it set, and light it again later. You will get noticeably more hours from the candle this way.
Four
Keep the crystal
When the wax is spent, warm the tin in your hands or run it under hot water and lift the crystal out. Rinse it and keep it — on a windowsill, in a pocket, wherever. The candle is finished; the stone is not.

Burn safely

The unglamorous part

None of this is exciting, but a candle is an open flame in your home.

Never leave a burning candle unattended.
Keep away from children, pets, and anything that catches.
Burn on a heat-safe surface, away from draughts.
Stop burning when about 10 mm of wax remains.
The crystals and botanicals sit in the wax, not in the flame — keep them clear of the wick.

Every order ships with a printed card of this, in case you forget.