Vegan Hemp Candles

Why Soy Wax?
(Courtesy of Greenspace)

•Clean Burning Soy candles burn much cleaner than paraffin candles, with no petrol-carbon soot--which can blacken walls, ceilings, and furniture, contaminate ventilation duct work in your home, as well as add carcinogens to the air you breathe.
•Renewable Resource Soy beans are a renewable resource, unlike paraffin, which is made from petroleum.
•Biodegradable Since soy is a vegetable, it is naturally biodegradable. Soy wax is also easier to remove from materials or other surfaces than paraffin wax.

Why 100% Hemp Wicks?

We don't use cotton because of the large volume of pesticides needed to grow it, and because growing it depletes the soil of nutrients. Also, most cotton wicks are bleached with chlorine, which adds more unnatural toxic compounds. (Some cotton wicks even have lead or other toxic metal cores.) Hemp needs no chemicals to grow and has deeper roots than cotton, so it can nourish even the unhealthiest of oils. The uses for hemp are infinite, as the products we offer here at Rawganique.com shows. It can be used to make paper, plastics, fiberboard, fuel, clothing, protein-rich food, cosmetics, cleaners, conditioners, inks, and paints.

100% Natural Fragrances

Only 100% essential oils are used for fragrance: Synthetic fragrances add to the toxins and soot emitted from burning candles and can case allergic reactions such as headaches and nausea.
Profits from these candles help support the environment and help fight animal cruelty.
(For more information on the damage that is occurring within the aromatic candle industry visit:

http://www.brainbody.com/_disc2/00000089.htm
http://www.ecomall.com/greenshopping/emaroma.htm
http://www.insure.com/home/candles.html)

Plant Wax VS Paraffin Wax

There are three main reasons many people avoid buying petroleum (paraffin) products:
* Petroleum smoke/exhaust contains many toxins
* Petroleum is not a renewable resource and it is of a limited supply
* Burning petroleum products creates air pollution and contributes to global warming. Paraffin candles contain up to 11 carcinogenic compounds. These 11 compounds have been deemed 'toxic air contaminants' by the State of California. An air quality researcher, David Krause, has documented evidence that candle soot particles contain many of the same compounds given off from burning diesel fuel.

In the Nov/Dec 2000 edition of the Emagazine, in an article titled, 'The Inside Scoop,' Kathleen O'Neil writes that a recent study of residents in both residential and an industrial areas found chemical levels in the subjects' bodies indicating they had received doses of pollutants in their homes five to 70 times higher than the highest outdoor levels. Burning candles are listed in the article as contributing their share of indoor pollution.

Health hazards are being created when paraffin (petroleum-based wax) is mixed with synthetic fragrance (some not even meant for combustion), and are compounded with chemical fixatives, synthetic glosses and bleached cotton wicks. Health problems have been more evident in the past five or so years due to the increase in popularity of highly scented candles. Hundreds of thousands of dollars of home and furniture damage have been reported, causing a battle with insurance companies and retailers of the candles.

Unfortunately, a large percentage of the human population is not aware of candle ingredients. One reason is that candle ingredients are not required to be listed, and labels are often worded in such a way that some consumers think they are buying healthy, aromatherapy candles, when in reality the candle is mostly a petroleum wax, synthetic scent, synthetic fixatives, with a little bit of plant essential oil added in. Even if a candle is labeled as being made of beeswax, often there is paraffin as well. The wicks are usually made of chemically grown cotton that has been bleached using dioxins. Wicks with metal down the middle are the most hazardous, as they contain lead.

Most department stores provide no other option than to buy paraffin candles. However, some natural food stores have began carrying plant-wax candles.

Greenspace Candles contain no lead, no petroleum, no chemical/synthetic fixatives or glosses, no animal products/byproducts, and we use 100% naturally grown hemp fiber wicks. Our plant wax is 100% biodegradable and produces 0% soot emissions.