For the candle lover a Comfort Candle is perfect. Comfort Candles provide just the right amount of light to give a room that special ambiance. These resin tea light holders come in many different shapes and sizes and have a variety of inspirational sayings. The inspirational sayings can help to lift your mood and certainly make you smile.
The best part about Comfort Candles is that they can be used over and over again by simply replacing the tea light. There’s no mess and no worry about having to figure how to relight a burned down wick. Tea lights are inexpensive and do last a fair amount of time. Comfort Candles can spruce up any room in the house and are therefore used quiet often as a decorative piece. They also make an excellent gift choice for anyone on your list! You can make your choice based on design or saying.
Some people are partial to fragrance lamps. A fragrance lamp is actually a catalytic diffusion lamp that purifies the air while imparting a fragrance. Fragrance lamps have been around a very long time. In fact, they date back to the 1800s and have shown to be safe and effective. A fragrance lamp diffuses aroma into the air while it purifies. This is definitely a plus during the winter months when many people must keep the windows in their homes closed. Some of the fragrance lamp oils used are essential oils, giving the lamps an aromatherapy application as well.
Spring-time in Florida is not a matter of peeping violets or bursting buds merely. It is a riot of color in nature—glistening green leaves, pink, blue, purple, yellow blossoms that fairly stagger the visitor from the north. The miles of hyacinths lie like an undulating carpet on the surface of the river and divide reluctantly when the slow-moving alligators push their way log-like across. the nights are white nights for the moon shines with dazzling splendor, or in the absence of that goddess, the soft darkness creeps down laden with innumerable scents. The heavy fragrance of magnolias mingled with the delicate sweetness of jasmine and wild roses.
—Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)
One of the most loved aspects of the fragrance lamp is the way they operate. The process is initiated by lighting a stone burner, which is seated at the mouth of the lamp. After about two to three minutes the flame is blown out but the heated burner remains active. The fragrance lamp does not operate with an open flame, making it quite safe. However, the lamp fuel contains 90% isopropyl alcohol and should be regarded as a highly flammable liquid. Initially, to start the catalytic wick it is necessary to light the catalytic burner with a flame and let it burn for approximately two to three minutes until it reaches the correct operating temperature. Of course caution should still be used when operating a fragrance lamp but it is much safer than having a constant open flame.
The lower operating temperature allows the aromatics to be diffused very efficiently into the air without being burned. One of the by-products of these fragrance lamps is low-level ozone, which has been attributed to the purification process of the lamps in reducing bacteria and eliminating odor. This alone is an excellent reason to choose to use fragrance lamps on a regular basis!
Fragrance lamps come in all shapes, sizes and colors. Some are made of crystal and some are even hand painted. Just as the Comfort Candles, they too can be used to decorate a room and give a comfortable warm feeling. Each has it’s own unique way of making a house feel more like a home.
All florists praise the fragrance of their own flowers.
—Chinese proverb.
MoonStorm is knowledgeable in the area of aromatherapy and therefore and uses fragrance lamps and fragrance lamp oils on a regular basis.