Aroma candles - New Year's and romantic fragrances

2024 Author: Priscilla Miln | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 00:21

Scented candles have been known since ancient times. They fill the room with various aromas, create an atmosphere of celebration, mystery, comfort or romance.

What are they made of

The basis of any candles is paraffin, from which 95% of candles are made, stearin, soy or beeswax. Chemical flavors or natural essential oils are added to it. Naturally, scented candles made from natural materials are the safest. Beeswax itself has a pleasant smell, and with the addition of delicate aromas of rose, vanilla, apricot, lavender, ylang-ylang creates a sensual atmosphere.

Chemical fragrances, not only do they often smell different from what is indicated on the package, they are also harmful to he alth. Paraffin, when heated, also releases harmful substances.

Stearin candles are made from natural materials, but are extremely rare today.

There are a lot of gel candles on sale now, including scented ones. The gel, as well as the candles themselves, can be made with your own hands. For its manufactureyou need glycerin, gelatin, tannin and distilled water. Food coloring and natural essential oils will complement the composition of homemade products.

Effect of various flavors

Aroma candles have different smells that give different effects. They not only relax or soothe, they can invigorate and refresh, uplift and tone, seduce, save from insomnia, treat respiratory diseases.

Pine scents are refreshing, so are lemon balm and lemon. Lavender, marjoram and mandarin are soothing. Coriander, cinnamon, sandalwood relieve fatigue. Relax basil, bergamot, geranium, lavender, chamomile, patchouli, ylang-ylang. Verbena, basil and rosemary are stimulating. Orange, grapefruit, mint, rosemary tone up. Chamomile, Turkish rose, sandalwood, neroli, thyme help with insomnia. The same aromas, and even clary sage, grapefruit, are antidepressants.

Scented pine oil candles effectively freshen the air and kill bad odors.

In the country, you can light a candle with citronella, it will scare away mosquitoes and other insects. Beautiful candles with appropriate aromas can make a calm and sincere conversation, restore vigor and relieve tension after a hard day or cheer up in the morning after sleep.

Christmas candles

The most important holiday is impossible without candles. Once upon a time, candles were lit on a festive tree, over time they were replaced by electrical counterparts. But all the same, candles remained an indispensable attribute of New Year's decorations. They create a festive moodand aroma candles also fill the house with the smell of pine needles.

Recently, artificial trees are being installed more and more often instead of living fragrant spruce or pine, which can be even more beautiful, but, alas, do not have a coniferous forest smell, the smell comes from childhood. And even tangerines, real, plucked from a tree, but brought from afar, may not have that rich aroma, which, combined with the smell of a Christmas tree, creates an anticipation of a holiday, a feeling of a miracle. What to do in such a case? Just light candles with essential oils of pine needles and tangerine.

Romantic Candlelight Night

Romantic candles in beautiful candlesticks make the atmosphere intimate even in a crowded restaurant. And if they burn on a table laid for two, in an apartment or fill a bedroom with sensual aromas, then the effect of them can exceed all expectations. True, fragrances must be selected carefully and dosed.

The atmosphere shouldn't be relaxing, but not so relaxing that you fall asleep early.

Excites and seduces partners with a delicate scent of ylang-ylang and verbena, while cedar opens hearts and improves mood, jasmine creates a relaxing environment.

You can combine various flavors with each other, the main thing is to observe the measure.

You can buy aroma candles in the store, make your own using your favorite scents, or make to order, choosing both the smell, the color and the shape.

Shape

Beautiful candles do not have to havesome unusual shape. Tall snow-white, in the form of a very elongated cone, wrapped in a ribbon, candles look very solemn.

Even the simplest candle can be decorated, for example, with cinnamon sticks, and tied with twine or ribbon.

Interior candles serve to decorate living spaces. They can be made in the form of plump columns, in cross section resembling a star with a different number of rays, a triangle, a flower with petals, a heart or two symbolically merged hearts, a crescent, an oval. Often such candles have strict geometric shapes, such as balls with the effect of snow.

Fine candles are often made from beeswax. They are made in the form of Easter eggs, hearts, snowmen, Christmas trees, fairy-tale characters. Wax sculptures of people and animals serve as decoration. True, it is a pity to burn them, so they rarely perform their main function.

Luxury and romantic look candles in the form of flower arrangements molded from wax. Colors and designs may vary. These are bouquets of roses, irises or lilies, and decorative vases with flowers.

Candles for scented candles

Scented candles are most often sold in metal molds and can be installed in any candlestick of a suitable shape.

Romantic atmosphere is supported by high openwork candlesticks with colored long candles. Such a structure rises above any table setting and illuminates it well. Moreover, a high candlestick is often made for two or threecandles.

Candlesticks for a more cozy warm environment should be low. It is not for nothing that scented candles are often sold in low transparent glass cups or goblets. The colored glass of these candle holders can make the lighting in the room whimsical.

It is interesting to watch the play of reflections on the walls if the candle is hidden in an opaque clay or metal candlestick with figured holes.

New Year's candles are often placed on a low stand decorated with spruce branches, cones, toys, sparkles, serpentine and beads.

Craftsmen make scented candles using orange peel as a candlestick.

Healing aroma candles

In China began to produce scented candles for the treatment and prevention of various diseases. They, like medicines, need to be lit three times a day for a certain time in a draft-protected room. Jasmine-scented candles boost immunity and have anti-flu effects.

Stabilize blood pressure, stop coughing, soothe the liver and nerves, improve mood, relieve insomnia, strengthen the masculine principle candles with medicinal herbs: awnless unabi, prickly jujube, codonopsis small-haired, Chinese angelica, thuja orientalis and many others.

Of course, in this case we are not talking about beauty, romance and a pleasant aroma, because the medicine is the medicine. Significantly more pleasant is the scented candle massage.

Massage candles

These aroma candles are a universal remedy.

They create an amazing atmosphere, aromatic oils formed during burning fill the air with relaxing aromas, heated to a temperature above human body temperature, serve as a massage oil and body care balm.

Moisturizing and nourishing scented massage candles for the skin of hands and feet after a bath - this is a chic SPA-treatment at home. Anti-cellulite candles with cocoa butter and pepper help to make the skin toned and slim figure.

And erotic candles affect three senses at once: like fire - on vision, like the aroma of aphrodisiacs, both relaxing and exciting - on smell, and like massage oil, which increases sensitivity to touch - on touch.

The composition of massage candles includes three types of vegetable oils: solid oils of coconut, cocoa, shea-karite; liquid - almond, avocado, jojoba; essential oils in various combinations.

The world of aromas is rich and diverse, fire is fascinating, and the combination of fire and smell gives a wonderful mood, creates a festive or romantic atmosphere, heals and decorates.