There's a difference between light and light

Autumn darkness is best illuminated with lots of light!

But did you know that candles affect both the environment in general and your indoor environment?
For example, there is a big difference between paraffin and stearin.

*Stearin is made from biological materials, while *paraffin is based on crude oil.
Therefore, paraffin has a negative environmental impact, and it is estimated that paraffin candles create as much as 52,500 tons of carbon dioxide emissions each year, which corresponds to the carbon dioxide emissions of 30,000 normal-sized gasoline cars.

Palm oil is included in some stearin, and if you buy stearin with palm oil, you should be careful that the palm oil is certified and approved and does not come from areas that are deforested.

Indoor environment

When a candle burns, it should ideally only produce carbon dioxide and water, if the temperature is high enough and the combustion is complete. But when paraffin candles burn, the temperature is not high enough, and incompletely combusted hydrocarbons are formed, which are harmful to health.

Researchers point out that even if it is not harmful to light candles now and then, suspected allergies or other problems with the airways in the home may in fact be reactions to pollutants from lit paraffin candles. The study has been presented at the American Chemical Society's, ACS, annual meeting.

We are therefore investing heavily in environmentally friendly stearin candles this autumn. Here you can see some of our new products in the webshop.
The candles come from Svenska refillsystems & Reluminus.

About Aluminum

In Sweden alone, 300 million tea lights are used, which in turn consume 225 tons of aluminum, according to the industry organization AluPro Nordic. According to the same organization, the energy consumption to produce one kilogram of aluminum corresponds to the amount of energy found in three liters of gasoline.

Recycling of the aluminum cup would result in large environmental benefits for the traditional tea light, the problem at present is that many cups are not recycled and that many of the cups that are actually submitted for recycling are also not recycled correctly.

This is because the base that holds the wick in traditional tea light cups is made of metal and not aluminum, which means that when the metal recycling is sorted, the cup ends up as a magnetic material and is recycled at too high a temperature. This means that the aluminum cannot be recycled but is destroyed.

Tea Light Refills

We have chosen to sell a refill system from the Swedish company Refillsystems, Reluminus. Our refills are the same size as a regular tea light and therefore fit perfectly in all your candle holders that you have at home.

The refill concept reduces the environmental impact of tea lights and aluminum cups and does not negatively affect the indoor climate (the crude oil in the paraffin from oil-based candles negatively affects the indoor air). When the candle has burned out, the candle cup is easily loaded with a new candle refill. The cup is made of environmentally friendly recyclable plastic. Easy to clean and reload with a new refill puck.

This cup is the same size as a regular tea light and therefore fits well in all your regular candle holders you already have at home. The package contains 10 clear cups and 22 refill pucks.

A starter pack contains 10 clear, reusable cups and 22 refill pucks.

We have of course tested the system and are very satisfied ourselves. The candles do not affect the indoor environment, and it is nice to know. The clear cup gives the candles a very pleasant glow. The flame is slightly lower and has a slightly warmer glow than a traditional tea light. We found that they burned most beautifully when all the stearin in the cup had melted completely. It took a second longer to light them, and they needed a little time for the flame to reach full height, so a little more caution is recommended when lighting them.

When they had burned out, it was very easy to just remove the metal foot and insert a new puck. We didn't bother to clean them completely as there was very little stearin left at the bottom, but here you may have to see for yourself if cleaning is needed between uses.