Scented candles have been known for a long time. 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, the most safe are scented candles made from natural materials. Beeswax itself has a pleasant smell, and with the addition of delicate aromas of roses, vanilla, apricot, lavender, ylang-ylang creates a sensual atmosphere.
Chemical fragrances, not only do they often smell not what is indicated on the packaging, are also harmful to health. When heated, paraffin also releases harmful substances.
Stearin candles are made of natural materials, but today are extremely rare.
Now many gel candles are on sale, including scented ones. The gel, like the candles themselves, can be made with your own hands. To make it, you need glycerin, gelatin, tannin and distilled water. Food coloring and natural essential oils complement the composition of home-made products.
The effect of various flavors
Aroma candles have different scents, giving a different effect. They not only relax or soothe, they can invigorate and refresh, raise the mood and tone, seduce, save from insomnia, treat diseases of the respiratory tract.
The coniferous smells are refreshing, the lemon balm and lemon balm also act. Lavender, marjoram and mandarin soothe. Coriander, cinnamon, sandalwood relieve fatigue. Relax basil, bergamot, geranium, lavender, chamomile, patchouli, ylang-ylang. Verbena, basil and rosemary stimulate. Orange, grapefruit, mint, rosemary tone. Chamomile, Turkish rose, sandalwood, neroli, thyme help from insomnia. The same aromas, and even clary sage, grapefruit are antidepressants.
Scented candles with pine oil effectively refresh the air and interrupt unpleasant odors.
In the country, you can light a candle with citronella, it will scare away mosquitoes and other insects.
Beautiful candles with the corresponding aromas can make a calm and intimate conversation, restore vigor and relieve stress 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 mood, and aroma candles also fill the house with the smell of needles.
Recently, more and more often instead of a lively odorous spruce or pine, artificial trees are installed , which can be even more beautiful, but, alas, do not have a coniferous forest smell, the smell comes from childhood. And even tangerines, real ones, 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 the holiday, a sense of miracle. What then to do? Only light candles with essential oils of needles and mandarin.
Romantic evening by candlelight
Romantic candles in beautiful candlesticks make the atmosphere intimate even in the crowded restaurant hall. And if they burn on the table, laid for two, in the apartment or fill the bedroom with sensual aromas, then the effect of them can exceed all expectations. True, aromas must be selected carefully and metered.
The atmosphere should not be relaxing, but not so much that before a good night smokes a sound sleep.
The delicate aroma of ylang-ylang and verbena excites and seduces partners, and cedar opens hearts and improves mood, jasmine creates a relaxing environment.
You can combine different flavors, the main thing is to observe the measure.
You can buy aroma candles in the store, make it yourself using your favorite scents, or make it to order, choosing both smell, color, and shape.
The form
Beautiful candles do not have to have any unusual shape. High snow-white, in the form of a very elongated cone, entwined with a ribbon, the candles look very solemn.
Even the simplest candle can be decorated, for example, with cinnamon sticks, and tied with twine or ribbon.
Interior candles are used 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 hearts symbolically merged, a crescent, an oval. Often such candles have strict geometric shapes, such as balls with the effect of snow.
Of beeswax, curly candles are often made. They are made in the form of Easter eggs, hearts, snowmen, Christmas trees, fairy-tale characters. Sculptures of people and animals made of wax serve as decoration. True, it is a pity to burn them, so they rarely fulfill their main function.
Candles in the form of flower arrangements molded from wax look luxurious and romantic. Color and design solutions can be very different. These are bouquets of roses, irises or lilies, and decorative vases with flowers.
Candlesticks for scented candles
Scented candles are most often sold in metal molds and can be installed in any candlestick of a suitable shape.
The romantic setting is supported by tall 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 into two or three candles.
Candle holders for a more comfortable warm atmosphere should be low. Not without reason, often scented candles are sold in low transparent glass glasses or glasses. The stained glass of such candle holders can make the lighting of the room fancy.
It is interesting to watch the game of reflections on the walls, if the candle is hidden in an opaque clay or metal candlestick with curly holes.
Christmas candles are often placed on a low stand, decorated with fir branches, cones, toys, sparkles, serpentine and beads.
Craftsmen make scented candles, for which the peel of an orange is used as a candlestick.
Therapeutic aroma candles
In China, they 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 room protected from drafts. Jasmine-scented candles increase immunity and have an anti-influenza effect.
They stabilize blood pressure, stop coughing, soothe the liver and nerves, improve mood, relieve insomnia, and strengthen the masculine suppository with medicinal herbs: unabi barkless, prickly jujube, codonopsis finely haired, Chinese angelica, oriental thuja and many others.
Of course, in this case we are not talking about beauty, romance and a pleasant aroma, because a medicine is a medicine. Much more enjoyable is a massage with scented candles.
Massage candles
These aroma candles are a universal remedy.
They create an amazing atmosphere, aromatic oils formed during combustion, fill the air with relaxing aromas, heated to a temperature above the temperature of the human body serve as massage oil and a balm for body care.
Moisturizing and nourishing scented massage candles for the skin of the hands and feet after the bath is a chic SPA treatment at home. Anti-cellulite candles with cocoa butter and pepper help to tighten the skin, and the figure - slim.
And erotic candles immediately affect three senses: like fire - to eyesight, like the aroma of aphrodisiacs, both relaxing and exciting, - to smell and like massage oil, which increases sensitivity to touch, - to touch.
The composition of massage candles includes three types of vegetable oils: solid coconut, cocoa, shi-shea butter; liquid - almond, avocado, jojoba; essential oils in various combinations.
The world of aromas is rich and diverse, the fire is fascinating, and the combination of fire and smell gives a wonderful mood, creates a festive or romantic atmosphere, heals and decorates.