Choosing Your Pet-Friendly Christmas Candles

What Are Pet-friendly Candles?

Candles are a beautiful gift at any time of the year to give friends, family and colleagues with prices ranging from just a couple of British pounds to hundreds of pounds for luxury candles where the fragrance is most important.

In recent years there’s been moves within the EU to reduce air pollution, the UKs Clean Air Strategy, which aims to reduce emissions inside the home as well as outside. UK households include the banning of the sale of wood and coal burning stoves and fireplaces that do not comply with eco standards and with warnings about using candles made with a paraffin base and wicks that should be lead free, with no central metal. Paraffin based candles (also can be referred to as mineral based candles) have been used since 1830 in UK homes when the Victorians introduced our modern day candle-making.

Vets have for sometime been vocal about the use of certain types of candles, advising pet-owners to look closer at the contents of candles when purchasing not just for themselves but for their pets health. Certain candles are ‘cleaner’ in their choice of ingredients causing less irritants to pets and therefore, more ‘pet-friendly’.

What makes a good pet-friendly candle?

Candle base ingredients should ideally be manufactured from 100% beeswax, coconut wax, rapeseed wax, sunflower seed wax, vegetable based wax, soy wax or other eco wax.

To provide fragrances the bases are usually blended with essential oils and according to several pet websites only a handful of essential oils are pet-friendly, that list includes lavender, peppermint, frankincense, copaiba and petitgrain.

The worst offending essential oils for pet health being ingested, (and that includes vapour ingestion) or contact with skin being tea tree, cinnamon, pennyroyal, citrus, sweet birch, pine, wintergreen and ylang ylang, all with varying degrees of toxicity to pets health.

According to Statista nearly 40% of households own a cat or dog, so it is a major consideration to select candles not just for human good health but pets too.

There’s no pet authority as to what is or what isn’t the best as there are several factors to consider when buying your best candle for both your health and you pets.

With company’s such as the luxury and pricey candle seller Jo Malone selling 2.5 kg of candles at £320.00 burning for about 20 hours, then there’s every reason to start taking a look a little more closer at the ingredients being used and whether they are the best for your pet household.

Surprisingly, many company’s fail to list the complete ingredients in their products descriptions online and even harder to find on the labelling when examining physical samples being sold in our high street stores.

If you are unsure about what you are actually buying check out Osmology who have an informative blog that provides in-depth candle making terminology and explains the different ingredients use.

Todays selection of candles below are available online, a selection of beeswax, soy based, rapeseed and sunflower wax mixed with the ‘better’ essential oils for pets health. These types of candles are generally sold with a natural fabric wick such as cotton or linen. Even though candles may be heavily marketed as with a more natural wax base, they may still burn strong essential oils, so not only is the essential oil being burned important but also the the dilution.

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