Candle Care

There’s nothing tricky to taking care of your candles. A few simple rules and a little common sense are all it takes to keep your candles looking lovely and burning nicely.

• Always keep a burning candle within sight. Extinguish all candles when leaving a room or before going to sleep.

• Never burn a candle on or near anything that can catch fire. Keep burning candles away from furniture, drapes, bedding, carpets, books, paper, flammable decorations, etc.

• Keep candles out of the reach of children and pets. Do not place lighted candles where they can be knocked over by children, pets or anyone else.

• Trim candlewicks to ¼ inch each time before burning. Long or crooked wicks cause uneven burning and dripping.

• Be sure the candleholder is placed on a stable, heat-resistant surface. This will also help prevent possible heat damage to counters and table surfaces and prevent glass containers from cracking or breaking.

• Keep the wax pool free of wick trimmings, matches and debris at all times.

• Memory Lane Candles should be burned long enough so that the melt pool reaches the edges of the glass container, but no longer than four hours at a time.

• Keep burning candles away from drafts, vents, ceiling fans and air currents. This will help prevent rapid, uneven burning, and avoid flame flare-ups and sooting. Drafts can also blow lightweight curtains or papers into the flame where they could catch fire.

• Don't burn a candle all the way down. Extinguish the flame if it comes too close to the holder or container. For a margin of safety, discontinue burning a candle when ½ inch of wax remains.

• Never touch a burning candle or move a votive or container candle when the wax is liquid.

• Place burning candles at least three inches apart from one another. This is to make sure they don't melt one another, or create their own drafts that will cause the candles to burn improperly.

• Use a candle snuffer to extinguish a candle. It's the safest way to prevent hot wax from splattering.

• Never extinguish candles with water. The water can cause the hot wax to splatter and might cause a glass container to break.

• Make sure a candle is completely extinguished and the wick ember is no longer glowing before leaving the room.

• Extinguish a candle if it smokes, flickers repeatedly, or the flame becomes too high. The candle isn't burning properly and the flame isn't controlled. Let the candle cool, trim the wick, then check for drafts before re-lighting.

• Never use a candle as a night light.