Candles Part 10

Best Hand-Poured/Best New/Best All-Around: Candology. We confess we know the owners of this company and adore them! Still, as you might have guessed, we love candles and would only promote the best. These are fantastic. They are the creations of Diana and Christian Espiritu, and made in Los Angeles. They’re soy, too. So basically, they meet all the BeansTalk criterion!

We also would like to help promote the hell out of them because they’re a start-up, but one that is completely, utterly worth checking out. We’re hoping you get all your holiday gifts here, or at least many. Diana learned the craft, hand-carving candles, as a small girl in Texas, just as she was starting school, honing her innate ability to blend colors and scents and secrets at her mother Diane’s side. We’ve met Diane and she’s super, too. In other words, this is a family business. But unlike Roots, its origins are only the last couple of decades. Still, they know what they’re doing.

Now, our (honest) opnion. We had some reservations about candles made in the way Candology is made, with the layers. It’s beautiful to look at and smells wonderful, but would it really burn down evenly? Yup. They do. And they are incredibly inexpensive for what you get. Here’s the 411 directly from them: hand-crafted superior quality candles. 100 % Pure Essential Oils. We artistically blend colors and pure essential oils evoking vibrant candle with aroma therapy. 100% Hemp Wick. Delight your senses with the warm glow of our all natural hemp wick. No lead. Not chemically treated. (BTW, BeansTalk loves loves that they use a hemp wick. Awesome!) 100% Distinctive. Each candle is hand poured, therefore, has a one-of-a-kind appearance. www.candology.com/