Wizard Candles

Gel candles are strongly scented, and the light of the flame casts the gel’s color around the base of the candle container and backlights the candle embed. Gel candle wax is clear, which allows for the unique glow from the candle flame.

Candle gel is 95% mineral oil and 5% polymer resin. The resin, mixed with the mineral oil, forms something very similar to Jell-O gelatin. Gel candles burn about twice as slowly as traditional wax candles. The flames are much smaller, and the candle wick should be trimmed regularly.

Wizard Candles has a huge assortment of decorative candles, including Celtic candles. Show your pride in your heritage with one of these quality paraffin candles. The Celtic balance candle, combining the scents of rose and patchouli, shows the forces of the masculine and the feminine at work with incredible knotwork detailing in the skirt.

Other choices include Bast (Egyptian cat goddess), obelisks, cubes, gods, goddesses, pentagrams, different pillar shapes, and many more. Any of these beautiful candles are also available wickless for use as statuaries, and special scents can be requested as well.

Candles do an awesome job of creating an atmosphere for the right occasion.  Whether this is an intimate date with a friend, an uplifting party vibe, or alone in the bathroom, a candle adds that old world charm that gives moments a sense of timelessness.  The ambiance created by a scented candle is part of the meditative feel that we get when looking at fire.

 Fire was the first major tool that man learned how to control.  In the myths, we were punished for this worship of fire by gods that wanted to wield it themselves for their power.  It seems like ever since this long ago time, we have been mesmerized ever since by the luscious allure of a flame. 

Candles are a multi-purposed device that has been an important part of civilization’s development.  The candle has its obvious utility as a light keeping tool, sort of a mobile fire source.  But a function that is little known about the candle is its usage as a teller of the passage of time.  During the Sung Dynasty in China between 960 and 1279, the candle was literally marked to tell the passage of time. 

The handmade candle would have an average amount of time it burn past a certain point on the wick.  On the wax itself, people would mark the time in hours.  The candle is a precursor to the hour glass that was a bit more accurate due to the hour glass’ blockage of environmental factors like wind in passing sand through the neck.

Introducing the paraffin candle…
I have learned that it really helps to think of a candle as a solid oil lamp. Here’s why…
First they both work on the same principle.
Liquid fuel flows up a porous cloth or fibrous wick by capillary action and is consumed by the flame, which converts the fuel into heat and light energy.
You probably have an oil lamp at home, we have three metal ones on the front patio. So it’s easy to understand how the candle works. The only difference is that the fuel in the candle is solid until the wick is lit and the heat of the flame melts the wax and converts it into liquid fuel.