Carolyn J. Braden • 3 Minute Read
What Is a Candle Warmer and Why I Love Mine
I may never light a candle again. I’ve always loved candles, but had a crazy fear that I’d leave one lit and then burn the house down. I know that may sound crazy, but it’s true. I’ve known others to be so busy with their lives that they’ve left the stove on or they left their hair straightener on, only to come home to thank God that it didn’t do any damage to their home. So, with this possible irrational fear, I stopped using candles. Then I found a candle warmer. Read on to learn about candle warmers and why I love mine.
We tested our candle warmer with several candles
I randomly came across a candle warmer on the Homebody Candle Co. website. I had been ordering their room sprays for a long while since discovering them in a local pop up shop. In an email announcing some of their recent product offerings, I saw a candle warming lamp. I was intrigued and did some research.
A candle warmer (or at least the one I was looking at) is a small lamp with a very powerful bulb that melts the candle. This melting of the candle releases the scent so you don’t have to light it. The one on the Homebody website only came in a white color and I needed black, so I ordered a black and wood candle warmer from Amazon. I put in an order for Homebody Candle Co.’s All Hallow’s Eve seasonal candle to use with my candle warmer and anxiously awaited my products to test them.
This is the remote for our candle warmer
The candle warmer lamp arrived first, so I tested it with a few candles I already had. It came with two bulbs, which I loved! The first candle was extremely lightly scented and after leaving it under the lamp for a while, I hardly smelled anything and was quite disappointed. I thought I had found a great new alternative to lighting candles and it didn’t seem to work. I then tried a more powerfully scented candle and was happily surprised.
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The second candle’s winter scent quickly scented my entire living room and kitchen area. I’d found the trick, which is using a stronger scented candle. I only tested using glass enclosed candles, knowing a metal tin would warm up way too much. Next, my Homebody Candle Co. candle arrived and we tested it in the candle warmer.
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The All Hallow’s Eve candle’s scent (which to me smells like a delightful lightweight warm powder scent), also filled my home. We love that the candle warmer we purchased has a timer with a 2 hour, 4 hour and an 8 hour setting, which we always set in the event we leave the house without remembering to turn it off. The timer works on ours perfectly, and now my fears have diminished.
A beautiful candle by Homebody Candle Co.
One thing I will note is that as the candle melts, the wick may fall into the candle. This happened with our Homebody candle, as we had not lit it yet and the wicks were cut on the short side. We tested our candle warmer with candles that we had already burned, and the wick did not fall into the melted wax. I’m not sure if this was a fluke or not.
We ordered the Cup O’ Joe Milkhouse Candle Company candle (which as the Amazon reviews claimed, does make my house smell like a Starbucks) and it had a longer wick. We did not light it before placing it under the candle warmer. So far, it has not fallen into the melted wax.
We have Homebody Candle Co. room and linen sprays too
One thing I also really like about the candle warmer lamp is that it makes our candles seem to last a bit longer. According to happywax.com, the candle wax will not evaporate if you only use the candle warmer with the lamp. The scent will eventually be “used up”, so even though the candles aren’t being burned down, it will not last forever. Still, ours are smelling great with using them for many weeks and if we had left ours burning all day, the candles would probably be almost gone.
I am not a health care professional, but I know I have had allergic reactions to certain scents used in room sprays, candles, and air fresheners. I choose candles that are soy based and have ingredients I can pronounce and my nose and lungs have been thankful. Pets and children can especially be affected by the scents you use in your home and I keep an eye on my cats and dogs. If they start getting runny eyes when I use a new scent, I stop using it. Read more about how scented candles and air fresheners can affect children in this informative family resource article by nationwidechildrens.org.
Homebody’s seasonal scents are awesome!
Overall, if you are looking for an alternative to lighting candles to scent your home, I’d recommend trying a candle warmer lamp. We have ours in an area of our kitchen on our stone counter and it is doing well. We don’t keep any papers near it, just in case, as the light does get fairly warm. The little lamp lights up a dark corner and we always notice when we don’t have it on. And we also notice if the house doesn’t smell like our delicious candle scents.
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Carolyn J. (C.J.) Braden is a regular contributor and editor for Carolyn’s Blooming Creations. She has been featured in numerous media publications such as InStyle Magazine, on HGTV, on Bustle.com, and more. She is the author of the books Georgia McMasters in Amethyst Lake Cemetery, How To Be Yourself: 3 Ways To Help You Being You, and the illustrator for the children’s book Bridging Connections. She is a former classroom teacher that now dedicates her life to educating others on how to live their most healthy, creative and happy life. Learn more about her visiting our About Us page.