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Posted By admin on June 21, 2010

Heaventree Candle Company will hold a drawing for a free candle giveaway the first Friday of every month at 10:00 am. The drawing will be held at our factory outlet store located at 330 E Route 22 in beautiful Lake Zurich, Illinois. There are two ways to enter your name in our drawing. You can login on our web site and give us your name and email address without making a purchase just clic on this link http://heaventreecandles.com/Login.aspx?at=reg . If  you have purchased in the past or purchase candles in the future your name is automatically entered.

The drawing will be video taped and presented on YouTube. If you are following Heaventree Candles on Facebook and we don’t have your email address please forward your address and we will gladly enter your name in our contest. We will email a photo of the candle we are giving away one week before the drawing, to everyone that has entered their name in the contest. Thank you and Good Luck!

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Posted By admin on June 4, 2010

Follow us on Facebook and login to our website to be entered in next month’s drawing!

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Posted By admin on March 15, 2010

All waxes are primarily hydrocarbons, whether they come from animal, vegetable or petroleum. The chemical composition of all waxes used for candle-making is similar, and all waxes burn in the same manner. No candle wax has ever been shown to be toxic or harmful to human health.

Candle wax comes from four different categories that include paraffin, vegetable, bees and tallo. In this article  we will talk about the most commonly used wax, Paraffin. Paraffin is the byproduct from making petroleum lubricants. This byproduct passes through several filters to clean out any trace oil that may be left in the wax and becomes fully refined paraffin wax. Fully refined paraffin is food grade wax. This wax is applied to gum wrappers, milk cartons, and is used to make canning wax and candles. If you think about it paraffin is a natural wax that comes from the ground.

All waxes burn with a yellow flame due to the presence of carbon.

All organic compounds when burned will emit some carbon (soot) due to incomplete combustion. Sooting (smoking) is primarily a factor of wick length and flame disturbance. See: http://heaventreecandles.com/blog/smoking-dripping-burning-candles

Burning paraffin wax gives off CO2 just like the CO2 we all exhale everyday.  Vegetable and bees wax also give off CO2 when they burn. Paraffin wax is transparent which allows the light from the flame to pass through the walls of a candle producing a warm glow that adds ambiance to any home decor.

There are three major suppliers of paraffin wax in the United States, they include, Exxon Mobile, IGI and Calumet Lubricants. Masterank imports fully refined paraffin from China and Sasol Wax imports from Japan.

The National Candle Association has all the facts and figures related to wax:  http://www.candles.org/elements_wax.html.

The next article, “What is Candle Wax? Part 2″ will talk about Vegetable waxes.

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Posted By admin on February 23, 2010

Shamrock Candle

Everyone can be Irish on St Patricks Day. All you have to do is dress with something green. Heaventree Candle Company has a pillar candle that will also help you dress up your home with a Kelly Green Shamrock candle. The green meadow fragrance will take you to wild Irish spring green fields. With snow still on the ground in most of the northern states, this fresh clover and grass fragrance will remind everyone that spring is just around the corner.

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Posted By admin on January 22, 2010

The holidays are the most common time when people burn candles, which unfortunately also means the danger of a fire caused by burning candles increases. However, being smart when burning candles goes a long way to make sure it is a safe activity.

With Valentine’s Day coming up next month, we’d like to share some quick tips to make sure you burn all of our innovative candles with care. By following a few simple steps, candle burning is a safe and fun way to enjoy the winter months. These are some of the best candle burning safety tips to remember:

• Always Clip the wick to ¼” before lighting
• Never leave a burning candle unattended.
• Make sure all candles are extinguished before going to sleep.
• If you have young ones, don’t allow them around candles. The same goes for pets!
• Place your candles on proper candleholders and sturdy surfaces that aren’t flammable.
• Keep your candles out of windows, where they can easily ignite curtains and blinds.
• Extinguish all pillar candles once they get within two inches of the holder.
• Make sure you use special care when burning unique candles like our Chicago hurricane candle.
• Keep the wax pool free of all debris including wick trimmings, dust and matches.
• Keep your burning candles away from air vents and out of drafts.
• Never move a candle when it is burning.
• If the candle begins to smoke, blow it out and trim the wick to ¼” then relight the candle.

Have any more tips to stay safe while burning your candles? Feel free to leave some comments on this post and we’ll add your candle burning safety tips to the list!

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Posted By admin on January 18, 2010

One of the best things about handmade candles is that each candle is a unique design that is beautiful whether it is burning or placed somewhere as decoration.

Swirl Candles

One of our personal favorite candle designs, these candles are elegantly designed to enhance any room with a high fashion candle. They come in 6 different colors, including Honey Gold with Papaya Mango fragrance, and we offer many sizes from 3X5 to 4X6.

Lantern Candles

Candle lanterns light up from the inside to illuminate their lovely design. These unique candles only come in ivory with vanilla fragrance, so that each one is illuminated from the inside when they are burning. For our Lantern Candles, you can choose amongst the 4×4 and 4×6 round or 4×4 square.

Butterfly Candles

Whether you want to use a candle to spice up a classy or contemporary home, these candles will be just what you are looking for. This variety of stylishly carved candles is available in 3 different color/ fragrance combinations, including Pink with Pink Pomelo fragrance, Banana with Honeysuckle and Green Oasis with Lime Coconut fragrance.

To see more of Heaventree’s great designs and carved candles and to purchase any of the ones here, visit our online store at www.heaventreecandles.com. Don’t forget to stop by the Heaventree Candles outlet store next time you are in the Lake Zurich, Illinois area!

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Posted By admin on January 5, 2010

There is one very simple rule to remember when burning candles. Always clip the wick each time before lighting to 1/4 inch. The wick is the conduit for the flame bringing the fuel (wax) and fire together to maintain the flame. This is important because, when the burn pool cools after you blow out a candle it shrinks leaving a dip in the pillar top or lower mark in a container candle. This shrinking wax leaves a longer wick. A longer wick will draw more fuel (wax) and create a supply of wax that the flame is not capable of burning fast enough. The result of too much fuel is SMOKE!

Dripping pillars seems to be a common complaint from some candle burning people. When a candle drips or blows a hole on the side of a pillar and leaks down the side there are several reasons that make this happen, 90% of the time a candle leaks wax down the side of the pillar because someone forgot to clip the wick before lighting. A longer wick also means that the flame is burning bigger and hotter. This extra heat changes the burning characteristics and creates a weakness on the outer wall of wax. Another big reason for the dripping problem is Candle Scaping. This occurs when two or more pillar candles are placed next to each other. You need to keep a minimum distance of 3” between candles. The heat from each candle has an effective range of one inch past the exterior side of the pillar. If the pillars are placed too close to each other, the sides of the pillars are compromised by too much heat generated by the two or more flames and wax flows down the sides.

Whether you are lighting a pillar candle, natural wax candle or container candle, remember to always clip the wick before lighting your candle!

Dennis Clarkson

Heaventree Candle Company

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Posted By admin on December 16, 2009

The Flame is a blog about burning candles. We will explore what makes some candles burn better than others. Why candles smoke even after you have followed the burn instructions on the label. We will talk about the different waxes that are used to make candles and how they perform. We will explain how fragrance, color and the wick affect the burning of every candle made.

The Flame will include comments from various vendors giving their expertise about all the details that make up a candle. You can ask them questions about information relating to candles. We want to create a forum where candle lovers can talk to each other and to the people involved with the manufacture of candles.

We want to know what you think of Heaventree candles and why you like to burn them. What colors and fragrances you like and any suggestions you might have to help us better provide you with the kind of candle you want. You can also share with us which Heaventree candles are your favorite, whether it’s the textured candles, carved candles or one of our many other varieties. If you’ve had a bad experience with Heaventree, please let us know about it so we can work to eliminate problems with our product or service.

Our new website has been up for only three weeks and we are working to make it better and add more product. Please be patient with us for the next couple of weeks at which time we hope to have all the gaps filled in.

We plan to make regular entries to this blog every two weeks. We look forward to hearing from all you candle lovers and Happy Holidays to all.

Dennis Clarkson
Owner & Partner

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Posted By admin on December 3, 2009

www.heaventreecandles.com

Hello and thank you for visiting Heaventree Candles new blog, where we will be talking with you about everything having to do with candles! We’re excited to offer our knowledge on candles, tips for all candle lovers, helpful information about candles, and the latest on all of Heaventree Candles’ hand poured candles.

Heaventree is located in Lake Zurich, Illinois, where we hand-make our variety of textured candles, smooth candles, holiday candles and more. Visit our website to shop for candles and see what’s new. You can browse our collection and preview all of our candles in the various colors/fragrances that we offer.

Heaventree Outlet Store

Are you a candle lover located in the Chicago suburbs? If so, come by the Heaventree Candles Outlet Store located at 330 E. Route 22 (Main Street) in Lake Zurich, IL. Here you can find all sorts of unique candles, all at outlet store prices. Call 847-726-7700 or send email to heaventree@aol.com

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