Candles to light up your life.

Candles have been with us for thousands of years; and candles have been giving light all over the world for this long. Candle history goes back to the Egyptians and Roman periods. The Egyptians used reeds from the Nile river and dried them, and tied bunches of them together to make the first candles, or torches. During the Roman period the Romans developed the wick candle bring light into their homes and for many other uses. All early candles used tallow, a whitish tasteless solid, or hard fat, obtained from cows, sheep and horses.

Beeswax was introduced in the Middle Ages; and is made from the honeycombs where bees stored their honey. Beeswax candles greatly improved the making of candles. It burned clean and didn’t omit the odors and foul smoke that the tallow type made. Many candles are made from beeswax today; however, candles are also made with wax and other products to improve the candle’s burning, and therefore they burn much longer.

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