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Discount Yankee Candles
Discount Yankee Candles are great when you can find them! Whether you find them online, at an outlet store or just on sale in your area, they are a very popular fragranced jar candle.
The Yankee Candle Company had a very interesting beginning, though, so let's take a minute to tell it, before going shopping!
Did you know that the very first candle made by the company founder was made from melted crayons? Michael Kittredge made the candle as a gift for his mother.
Now obviously he moved on to more traditional candle wax, and soon enough, friends and neighbors were asking to buy his creations. Michael began making more and more and finally decided it was time to officially open a business.
With a little help from high school friends Susan Obremski and Donald MacIver, the Yankee Candle Company was born.
The flagship store still exists in South Deerfield, Massachusetts, and as you might guess, it's a popular tourist attraction.
Buying Discount Yankee Candles Online
For those of you who like to buy online, you can buy discount Yankee candles at the worlds's largest online mall -- ebay.
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 Yankee Candle Jasmine Two 145oz Jars Original Retired  US $19.99
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 Yankee Candle Freesia Two 145oz Jars Retired Scent US $19.99
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 Yankee Candle Jar Topper NEW US $9.99
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Enjoy your richly scented Yankee jar candle!
Tags: Soy Candles
Soy candles are very popular these days. They are clean-burning, hold a fragrance well and come in many colors, shapes and sizes.
Let's take a closer look at scented soy candles; how they are made, advantages/disadvantages, shapes and your options for buying.
Soy candles are very popular these days. They are clean-burning, hold a fragrance well and come in many colors, shapes and sizes
Let's take a closer look at scented soy candles; how they are made, advantages/disadvantages, shapes and your options for buying.
How They are Made
As you probably know, these candles are made from the humble soybean. It's produced by hydrogenating the soybean oil, to that it remains stiff at room temperature.
Soy wax is relatively recent on the market, being introduced in 1993. Its creator, Michael Richards, was looking for a cheaper alternative to the popular natural wax of the day - beeswax.
Mr. Richards succeeded, and today soy candles are extremely popular.
Advantages
The biggest advantage is scent! They are somtimes called triple-scented because of the amount of fragrance they can hold -- far more than paraffin or beeswax, and virtually almost as much as natural candles.
Soy candles have a low melting point, but a long burn time with the proper wick. Also, the wax itself is sootless, and the only soot produced is from the wick and fragrance itself (a very small amount).
Soy wax also has a very easy cleanup, should you spill some -- all it takes is soap and water!
Disadvantages
Soy's low melting point is also a disadvantage; pillar and especially taper shapes can deform in the burning process, or even in the hot sun. However, soy wax blends can allow for soy pillar candles.
Although rare, if you are extremely sensitive to soy products the burning wax may effect you. You'd have to be extremely sensitive, though, for it to have an effect.
Fragranced Jar Candles, Pillars, Votives
As mentioned in the disadvantages section, tapers and pillars are not the best shapes. If you indeed want to burn a pillar, choose a short wide one, and make sure the base you place it on has some depth to catch the drips.
Your other option is to choose a pillar made with a mixture with another type of wax -- paraffin is a common option.
Fragranced jar candles, as well as votives, are better choices for burning soy waxes. The containers help keep the melted wax where it needs to be -- close to the wick. Not running down the side. Check out more about soy votive candles.
Where to Buy
As with all candles, you can find soy just about anywhere -- malls, candle shops and online. Be an informed consumer, though, with the following thoughts:
A candle can be labled soy but also have other ingredients. For example, a candle can be mostly paraffin with perhaps 20% and it can still be labeled as soy wax. If you want 100%, look for that on the label.
Look at the label for the candle burning suggestions, especially on fragranced jar candles. You can burn soy longer, on average, than candles made with paraffin blended in. But you may be surprised at some of the restrictions you might see.
Triple Scented Jar Candles
You hold the jar and tentatively touch the lid from the triple scented jar candles. You hesitate a second -- will a triple-scented jar candle really be any different from a regular candle?
You open the lid and breath in the lucious fragrance. You think to yourself, "Now this will let my whole house smell great, and with only one candle!".
Yes, there is a difference when it comes to triple-scented jar candles (and regular shapes, too). It only takes one sniff to tell the difference.
What Makes the Difference?
If you've been following in some of the other pages (like natural candles and soy candles), you know there is a difference as to how much scent the wax can actually hold.
Now at first it might seem that all you need to do is keep pouring more fragrance into a regular (paraffin) candle and it, too, would become highly scented. But that isn't the case.
Different waxes can actually hold varying amounts of scents, before the fragrance actually starts separating from the candle wax. And that can become dangerous, because if the fragrance has separated and has a low "flash point", the candle itself can catch on fire.
(The flash point is the temperature at which a fragrance ignites, if it's separated from the wax.)
It seems that vegetable wax holds the most scent, very closely followed by soy-only. Both of them can handle much more fragrance than a standard paraffin or paraffin-mix candle.
Why Triple Scented Jar Candles?
You may be wondering why triple scented jar candles -- why not pillars or votives or tapers?
Jar candles have an advantage that pillars don't -- the glass prevents the scent from too much "leak". You've probably experienced it -- you get a lovely pillar home and light it for a few hours. Then a few hours the next day.
Then the next day comes and the scent is weaker...and weaker. The candle is so big and has so much surface area for the scent to escape.
Tapers generally aren't used because vegetable and soy wax typically have low melt points; the tapered candles don't hold their shape very long and melt too fast.
Not to mention that taper candles have such a small melt pool that they aren't strongly scented, when it comes to the scent's "throw" (how much area gets scented).
Votive candles are an option, because you can burn them in a glass holder that will act to contain the scent somewhat. And also votives have less of a burn time, so by the time the scent starts to get weaker, the candle is pretty much finished as well.
Triple scented jar candles have the glass that contains the scent, and a lid that you can place on the jar between burnings. This helps keep the fragrance strong much longer.
Where to Find These Richly Scented Candles
Most of the premium triple scented jar candles are sold only online or from a distributor, although you can sometimes find them at holiday fairs. So the next time a craft show comes to your area, go and take a peek! Or, a co-worker, friend or neighbor may know a distributor in your area.