Aroma candles - New Year's and romantic aromas

Flavored candles are known from ancient times. They fill the room with various flavors, create an atmosphere of celebration, mystery, coziness or romance.

From what are made

The basis of any candles is paraffin, fromwhich makes 95% of candles, stearin, soy or beeswax. It adds chemical flavors or natural essential oils. Naturally, the most safe are scented candles made from natural materials. Bee wax itself has a pleasant smell, and with the addition of delicate aromas of rose, vanilla, apricot, lavender, ylang-ylang creates a sensual atmosphere.

Chemical flavors, moreover, that they often smell not what is indicated on the package, are also harmful to health. Paraffin, when heated, also releases harmful substances.

Stearin candles consist of natural materials, but today they are extremely rare.

Now many gel candles are sold, includingnumber and flavored. Gel, as, indeed, the candles themselves, you can do with your own hands. To make it, you need glycerin, gelatin, tannin and distilled water. Food colors and natural essential oils will complement the composition of homemade products.

The effect of various flavors

Aroma candles have different smells givingvarious effect. They not only relax or soothe, they can invigorate and refresh, raise mood and tone, seduce, save from insomnia, treat respiratory diseases.

Coniferous smells are refreshing, so are lemon balmand lemon. Lavender, marjoram and tangerine 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. Help from insomnia daisy, Turkish rose, sandalwood, neroli, thyme. These same flavors, and even sage muscat, grapefruit are antidepressants.

Scented candles with pine oil effectively refresh the air and interrupt unpleasant odors.

At the dacha you can light a candle with a citronella, it will scare off mosquitoes and other insects.
Beautiful candles with appropriate fragrances can make a calm and intimate conversation, restore vivacity and relieve tension after a hard day or cheer up in the morning after a dream.

New Year's candles

The most important holiday is impossible without candles. Once the candles were lit on a festive Christmas tree, in time they were replaced by electrical analogues. But all the same candles remained an indispensable attribute of New Year's adornments. They create a festive mood, and aroma-candles also fill the house with the smell of needles.

Recently, more often than living scentspruce or pine trees are installed artificial trees, which can be even more beautiful, but, alas, they do not have a coniferous forest smell, a smell coming from childhood. And even mandarins, real, torn from the tree, but brought from afar, may not have that rich flavor that, combined with the smell of the tree, creates a foretaste of the holiday, a sense of wonder. What, then, should be done? Only light candles with essential oils of needles and mandarin.

Romantic evening by candlelight

Romantic candles in beautiful candlesticksmake the atmosphere intimate even in a filled restaurant hall. And if they burn on a table, covered for two, in an apartment or fill with a sensual aroma bedroom, then the effect of them can exceed all expectations. True, aromas should be selected carefully and dosed.

The atmosphere should not be relaxing, but not enough to make a sound sleep before it's time.

Excites and seduces partners a delicate aroma of ylang-ylang and verbena, and cedar opens hearts and improves mood, jasmine creates a relaxing atmosphere.

You can combine different flavors, the main thing is to observe the measure.

You can buy aroma candles in a store, make them yourself using your favorite fragrances or make to order, picking up both the smell, and the color, and shape.

The form

Beautiful candles do not need to have any unusual shape. High snow-white, in the form of a very elongated cone, wrapped in ribbon, the candles look very solemn.

Even the simplest candle can be decorated, for example, with cinnamon sticks, and tied with twine or tape.

Interior candles serve to decorate residentialpremises. They can be made in the form of thick columns, in cross section resembling a star with a different number of rays, a triangle, a flower with petals, a heart or symbolically merged two hearts, a crescent, an oval. Often, such candles have strict geometric shapes, for example balls with the effect of snow.

Beeswax is often made from candied wax. They are performed in the form of Easter eggs, hearts, snowmen, trees, fairy-tale characters. Decoration is made of sculptures of people and animals from wax. Burn them, however, it is a pity, so that their main function they rarely perform.

Luxurious and romantic look candles in the form offlower compositions molded from wax. Color and design solutions can be very different. This is a bouquet of roses, irises or lilies, and decorative vases with flowers.

Candle holders for aromatic candles

Scented candles are most often sold in metal molds and can be installed in any suitable candlestick.

Romantic atmosphere is maintained by highopenwork candlesticks with colored long candles. Such a structure rises above any table setting and lights it well. Moreover, a tall candlestick is often made with two or three candles.

Candlesticks for a more cozy warm environmentshould be low. Not without reason often scented candles are sold in low transparent glass glasses or glasses. A colored glass of such candlesticks can make the room lighting whimsical.

It is interesting to observe the play of gleams on the walls, if the candle is hidden in an opaque clay or metal candlestick with figured holes.

New Year's candles are often put on a low stand, decorated with spruce twigs, cones, toys, sparkles, serpentine and beads.

The craftsmen make scented candles, for which the orange peel serves as a candlestick.

Healing aromatherapy

In China, they began to produce scented candles fortreatment 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. Candles with a jasmine flavor enhance immunity and have an anti-influenza action.

Stabilize the pressure, stop coughing,calms the liver and nerves, improves mood, removes insomnia, strengthens the male beginning of the candle with medicinal herbs: unabi seedless, jagged prickly, codonpopsis chalky-horny, angelic chinese, thuje oriental and many others.

Of course, in this case we are not talking about beauty, romance and pleasant aroma, because the medicine is a medicine. Much more pleasant is a massage with aromatic candles.

Massage Candles

These aroma-candles are a universal remedy.

They create an amazing atmosphere, aromaticoils 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 balm for body care.

Moisturizing and nourishing fragrancesmassage candles for the skin of hands and feet after the bath - this is a luxurious SPA-procedure at home. Anti-cellulite candles with cocoa butter and pepper help to make the skin taut and the figure slim.

And erotic candles act immediately on threesensory organ: like fire - to the sight, like the aroma of aphrodisiacs, both relaxing and exciting - to smell and as a massage oil that increases sensitivity to touch - to the touch.

The composition of massage candles includes three types of vegetable oils: solid coconut oil, cocoa, shi-karite; liquid - almond, avocado, jojoba; essential oils in various combinations.

The world of aromas is rich and diverse, fire fascinates, and the combination of fire and smell gives a wonderful mood, creates a festive or romantic atmosphere, heals and beautifies.