Massage Candles
The Candle You’re Supposed to Spill
A massage candle is only a candle for a few minutes. Then you blow it out, and what’s pooled around the wick is warm body oil: soy wax, shea butter, coconut oil, olive oil, cocoa butter, and a little beeswax. Three scents, all made in Owings Mills, Maryland.
There’s a Tuesday night version of this. The shower’s done, the house is quiet, and your heels have looked like a dry riverbed since the heat kicked on. You light the candle on the nightstand, brush your teeth, come back, blow it out. The pool around the wick is warm oil now.
That’s all a massage candle is. Ours is a soy massage candle built from things skin already likes: shea butter, coconut oil, olive oil, cocoa butter, and beeswax to hold it together. Melted, it does what a massage oil candle should. It pours, it spreads, it sinks in. Your sheets stay out of it.
We make three at our facility in Owings Mills, each 5.6 ounces and scented with essential oils only. Peace of Mind is lavender and citrus. Rose Garden is rose, lavender, and geranium, closer to petals than perfume. Autumn Harvest is cinnamon and clove, like someone has been baking all afternoon. Every one has a pour spout, because the old design dripped down the side and onto the nightstand.
People use them after baths, before bed, on hands wrecked by dishwater, and on anniversaries when nobody made a reservation. They pass as spa candles on a bathroom shelf, though they’d rather be used than looked at. Light it, let a pool of oil form, and blow it out. Never burn it longer than 15 minutes. Test a drop on your wrist. Pour.
Made in Owings Mills
Made by hand at our Maryland facility. We test every formula and smell every batch before it goes in a box.
What’s in the Wax
Skin-safe soy wax, shea butter, coconut oil, olive oil, cocoa butter, and beeswax. Essential oils for scent. No synthetic fragrance.
A Pour Spout That Works
The old design dripped. The new one has a spout, so the oil lands in your palm and not down the side of the jar. A single wick melts the surface evenly.
Fifteen Minutes, No More
The blend is designed to melt near body temperature. Burn it like a regular candle, though, and it keeps heating until the oil can burn skin. Fifteen minutes is the limit, and a drop on your inner wrist is the test.
A Beekeeper’s Candle
Bee Inspired is woman-owned, and the woman in question keeps bees. A portion of profits goes to programs that support at-risk youth and restore natural ecosystems. Explore our mission.
Massage Candle FAQs
A candle that turns into massage oil. It’s made from soy wax and skin-safe plant butters and oils, so once it melts you can blow it out and use the warm oil on your body.
Warm. The candle is designed to melt near body temperature, which is why you can pour it on skin at all. Left burning like a normal candle it will get hot enough to burn you, so blow it out within 15 minutes and test a drop on your wrist first.
Until there’s a pool of melted oil around the wick, usually 12 minutes. Never more than 15. Blow the flame out, wait 30 seconds, and never pour from a lit candle.
No. Past 15 minutes, the wax and the vessel get too hot to use safely on skin. For all-evening burning, our soy candles are the better choice.
No. Shea butter, coconut oil, olive oil, and cocoa butter absorb instead of sitting on top. It works best on damp skin, right after a shower or bath.
Keep it below the neck: shoulders, back, hands, feet, heels, elbows. It’s for external use only. If your skin is reactive, test a small amount on your inner wrist and stop if there’s any irritation.
Each candle is 5.6 ounces. Depending on body size, that’s about four full body treatments, and more if you’re only doing hands, feet, or shoulders. Use it within six months of opening and store it away from heat and sunlight.
