About our Hearts & Votives

Friendly Fumes Hearts & Votives soy candles are hand poured & handmade from All Natural pure 100% soybean wax. We never mix paraffin wax into our natural scented candles and soy pillar products. We use hemp cored wicks which are braided with pure U.S. grown unbleached cotton to give the cleanest burning soy candles available today. Available dye-free.

Clean Burning

One of the most famous benefits of soy candles is how clean they burn. Soy wax doesn't produce the black soot like paraffin does. While some might say "no soot", it's actually "little soot". Everything that burns puts off smoke, and soy candles are no exception. However, the amount of smoke released from soy wax is so minimum, there are very few that notice it.

If you have ever had a soy wax candle in the past that did leave black soot around the jar, there are several reasons this may have happened. One explanation is it wasn't 100% soy, but rather a soy/paraffin blend. Many advertise "soy candle" have unknown blends that you may not catch unless you search deep into their site. If it doesn't say 100% or tell you what's in the candles, watch out.

Another reason you see black soot could have been the use of metal wicks. While no candle made in the U.S. has lead, they can have zinc. Zinc wicks are not toxic like lead, but they will produce more soot than cotton or hemp wicks.