Why Your Candle Should Be as Clean as Your Skincare

You read ingredient labels on your skincare. You’ve swapped parabens for peptides, sulfates for ceramides, and maybe even switched to fragrance-free. So why are we still burning candles filled with mystery chemicals?

The truth is: your candle should be just as clean as your skincare.

Here’s why.

You Absorb What You Burn

When you light a candle, you're not just filling the room with scent—you're releasing airborne particles that settle on your skin, your furniture, your pet's fur, and into your lungs.

Many traditional candles contain:

• Paraffin wax, a petroleum byproduct that releases carcinogens like benzene and toluene

• Phthalates, often hidden in synthetic fragrances, known to disrupt hormones

• Lead-core or metal wicks, which can emit heavy metals

• Synthetic dyes, which add color but no benefit—and can become toxic when burned

If you wouldn’t rub these ingredients on your face, why would you let them fill your air?

Your Skin (and Your Pet’s) Is Always in Contact

Your skin is your body’s largest organ—and it absorbs what’s in your environment. The same goes for your pets, who spend even more time on the floor, couch, or bed where fragrance particles settle.

Clean skincare is about more than what you apply. It’s about what surrounds you.

Clean Candles Are the New Clean Beauty

Just like beauty, candle brands aren’t required to disclose everything they use. The word "fragrance" can legally mask hundreds of ingredients, many of which aren’t tested for safety.

At Companion Candles, we decided that wasn’t good enough. So we removed over 250 toxic ingredients typically found in candles, including:

• Carcinogens

• Mutagens

• Endocrine disruptors

• Acute toxins

Our standards are closer to clean skincare than traditional home fragrance. Because safety shouldn’t be seasonal.

Clean Skin. Clean Air. Clean Conscience.

You work hard to make clean, conscious choices for your body. Don’t let your candle undo that work.

Light something you can feel good about. And better yet—something your dog or cat can safely curl up next to.

🕯️ Shop Clean-Burning, Pet-Safe Candles that love your skin, your pets, and your planet.