Candle Health & Safety
Candles and Melts require care when burning. Here are some key safety points you should remember. Most are obvious, some may not be:
Candle Burning
- Never leave a burning candle unattended.
- Never burn a candle for longer than 4 hours.
- Always burn your candle out of the reach of children and pets.
- Always leave at least 10 cm’s between each burning candle.
- Do not burn candles on or near anything that can catch fire.
- Do not place candles near a draught.
- Always snuff your candle to extinguish. Refrain from blowing out as this will omit soot/smoke.
- For an effective burn each time, trim the wick to 1cm before each lighting.
- Keep the wax pool clear of matches & other debris that could catch fire.
Wax Melt Safety
- Always burn in a well ventilated room.
- Always burn within sight especially of you are using an unscented tea light.
- Keep away from things that could catch fire.
- Keep away from children and pets.
- Remove wrapper and label before use
- Only use in warmers designed for wax melts.
- Never add water or cover pot.
- Do not heat if pot contains less than 1/2" of wax.
Wax Melt Burner Safety
- Failure to follow these instructions could result in a fire hazard.
- Use with only good quality wax melts. Never leave a burning candle unattended or move the burner when lit.
- Remove all packaging before use.
- Only use with a good quality 4 hr tealight. Do not use a maxi tealight, votive or candle as these will make the wax too hot.
- Keep the tealight and wax melt burner out of the reach of children and pets.
- Do not burn the tealight or leave the wax melt burner on or near anything that can catch fire.
- Ensure the wax melt burner is well ventilated.
- There must be at least 6.5cm of space above the flame within the wax melt burner.
- Keep foreign objects out of the wax pool.
- Keep the wick trimmed on your tealight to 3-5mm and remove any carbon build up.
- The wax burner becomes very hot during use, do not touch or move it whilst alight or whilst wax remains molten.
- Extinguish the tealight if the flame becomes enlarged, makes contact with the wax melt burner or begins to smoke.
- Once extinguished allow the wax melt burner to cool completely before moving.