The Best Organic Candles For Your Home

A candle always makes a great gift – for yourself, or someone else. Looking for the best organic candles? Read on!

By Lora O’Brien

Whatever the occasion, an organic scented candle is the perfect gift: it’s less fattening than chocolate, less expensive than jewellery and longer lasting than flowers! They make us feel cosy in winter, and make baths more luxurious all year round.

The only issue is this: most scented candles on the market emit a toxic mix of what are known as Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs).

Common and Toxic

According to the American Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), VOCs are found not only in candles, but also other common household items, like:

  • paints, paint strippersand other solvents
  • wood preservatives
  • aerosol sprays
  • cleansers and disinfectants
  • air fresheners
  • dry-cleaned clothing
  • pesticide
  • building materials and furnishings
  • office equipment such as copiers and printers, correction fluids and carbonless copy paper
  • graphics and craft materials including glues and adhesives, permanent markers and photographic solutions
  • home scents, sprays and candles

The effect they can have on the body can be mild, or quite serious. Symptoms from inhaling them can include stuffy or runny nose, skin irritation, headache, dizziness, irritated mood, fatigue and nausea. Over time, inhaling VOCs can lead to organ damage, liver and kidney damage, and even cancer.

Why Organic Candles Are Better

Due to the effects of VOCs, it’s obviously important to ensure you’re only using naturally scented candles. But there are other reasons organic candles are better, too.

For example, paraffin.

This is a petroleum-based wax that’s used in most cheap candles. It may release carcinogenic soot when burned. For that reason, look for candles made from vegetable wax (like soy, beeswax, or non-GMO corn). But be super careful: if your candle isn’t proudly organic, the wick could be coated in paraffin.

Here’s our list of some of the best organic candles in the world, selected not only for their natural ingredients, but for their beautiful packaging, too.

Where To Find Organic Luxury Candles

1. Cire Trudon

This centuries-old French company is considered to be the ‘Rolls Royce’ of organic luxury candles! They have made them for the likes of Marie Antoinette and Louis XIV. The hand-blown glass vessel is still adorned with the brand’s signature gold Gosset stamp.

Today, they use the same formula of naturally scented oils and beeswax. The rich aroma of the candle lingers long after the flame is extinguished. Our favourite scent? The wood/honey scented Parquets de Versailles, which evokes lazy Sundays spent in French museums.

Price: Around $125

Where: Worldwide

Burn time: 55-60 hours

Best for: Men and women with great taste and style; Francophones

 

cire trudon candle

2. NEOM Organics

This much loved British company produces simple, pure soy based candles in complex, layered scents like pine, myrrh and lime or white neroli, mimosa and lemon. Our favourite? The relaxing Perfect Bliss fragrance, which combines 17 essential oils, including Moroccan rose, black pepper and fresh lime.

Price: Around $50 for a 3 wick-candle

Where: Worldwide

Burn time: 50 hours

Best for: Pretty, feminine elegance

neom organics candles

3. Bamford Organics

Handcrafted in the UK, Bamford Organics is a favourite organic home wear brand with British celebrities, including Kate Moss. Their soy wax candles are blended with pure essential oils, such as frankincense, lavender, orange, basil, juniper, sandalwood and balsam. Finished off in a frosted-glass vessel, these are some of the best organic candles to lend an elegant touch to any home interior.

Price: Around $40

Burn time: 30 hours

Where: UK

Best for: Minimalist elegance

 

Best Organic Candles

4. Homesick Seattle Candle

What do you think of when ‘Seattle’ comes to mind? If it’s the whiff of pine trees, cedar and rain wafting into a cafe while you’re sipping a strong cuppa, well, this candle perfectly evokes that American city. Not a fan of the Pacific coast? They do Texas, New York, and other ‘city scents’, too!

Price: $38

Burn time: 60-80 hours

Where: USA, ships worldwide

Best for: Rustic, woody scents

Best Organic Candles For Your Home

5. Pairfum Candles

If you’re looking for a long-lasting candle you can burn without the fear of toxic, black smoke polluting the room and decor, then Pairfum Candles are ideal. Their 100% biodegradable and natural soy wax candles not only look lovely in your home, but also release the purest of perfumes, delicately scenting your environment.

And the best part? You simply choose your fragrance from their array of perfumes to create a custom-made candle. Scents to select from include: Cognac & Vanilla, Cedar Noir, or Magnolias in Bloom, for example.

Price: Around $25

Where: UK

Burn time: 40 hours

Best for: Custom-made candles; beautiful gift boxes

best organic candles

6. AMEN Candles

AMEN’s founder, Rodrigo Garcia Alvarez, makes some of the best organic candles in the world.

He’s passionate about the relationship between sustainability, luxury and health. For that reason, he, along with wellness expert Dr. Simrat Kaur, created candles that are guided by the concept of the body’s 7 chakras. Each scent corresponds to a different chakra, and is meant to open and soothe it.

Their natural waxes are hand-poured in Grasse, a French town on that’s synonymous with fragrance. Housed in a reusable porcelain vessel crafted in Limoges, the candles are packaged in carbon-negative, biodegradable boxes made of mushroom and agricultural waste.

Price: Around $50

Where: Worldwide

Burn time: 40 hours

Best for: Ecological minimalists

 

Best Organic Candles For Your Home

 

7. Baobab Luxury Candles

Baobab Collection’s huge, 5kg candles are some of the most luxurious candles around! They’re expertly crafted from the highest quality natural wax and formulated by master perfumers in Grasse. And get this: instead of coming in glasses, they’re set inside a stunning, hand-blown glass vessel. Remove the label, and it’s a decorative vase after you’ve depleted the candle.

Price: Around $325

Where: UK

Burn time: 400 hours – yep, you read that right!

Best for: This is one of the best organic candles for giving as a beautiful, luxurious gift

 

8. Aromatherapy Associates

This brand makes some of the best organic candles for those who really feel the power of aromatherapy.

Each one contains the equivalent of two 10ml bottles of the brand’s pure essential oils, which explains the powerful therapeutic aromas they emit. Hand-poured in the UK from natural soy wax, these candles are the ideal companions to yoga classes, morning meditation sessions, or relaxing bubble baths.

Price: Around $69

Where: Worldwide

Burn time: 40 hours

Best for: Aromatherapy fans, of course!

 

 

 

9. Abuela’s Bakery

Was your gran a big baker? Does the scent of baking make you happy? Abuela’s Kitchen is one of the organic luxury candles you’re going to love! The Latina founder of the brand created the candle to recall the delicious smells that emanated from her abuela’s kitchen.

Warm hints of saffron, smoke and clove blend with sweet custard, caramelised sugar and coconut. Final notes of maple, vanilla and rum will make you wish you had some hot chocolate and cookies by the fireplace!

Style: Warm and spicy.

Price: Around $35

Where: USA

Burn time: 50-60 hours

Best for: Evoking childhood nostalgia

Best Organic Candles For Your Home

10. Charcoal Rose Soy Wax Candle

Rose is a floral most people adore. However, it can be a bit cloying. That’s why Archipelago blended fresh rose with the smokiness of charcoal and the tartness of mandarin orange peel in this organic luxury candle. There’s also green notes of geranium and sage, and headier notes of white musk, patchouli to ensure this candle doesn’t give off ‘granny’ vibes.

Price: Around $30

Where: USA

Burn time: 50-60 hours

Best for: A unique twist on classic rose

Charcoal Rose Soy Wax Candle

Love our list of the best organic candles? You’ll probably love our Natural Perfume Picks too!

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