4CandlesUK Candle Making Supplies Blog

 It’s our sweet sixteenth birthday! On this day in 2004, www.4Candles.co.uk launched and became one of the first candle making supplies websites in the UK.  We’re celebrating by launching 16 new fragrance oils! From festive, to Halloween, aftershave, sweet, fresh, alcohol and more – there is something for everyone. As with all of our new fragrances, we’re offering 50% off the 60ml bottles of all 16 new scents until 26/10/20 But that’s not all! We want to give 16 of you a present to say thank you for supporting us so you can celebrate too. Four people who like us on Facebook, four people who are subscribed to our newsletter, four people who are following us on Twitter, and four people who are following us on Instagram will all win a 25ml bottle of all 16 scents. So 16 people with 16 fragrances each. There’s no liking or sharing, as long as you’re following us, you’re in the draw. You’re free to follow/subscribe to us on all four platforms for extra chances to win and winners ...

Many of our customers will have concerns due to the Coronavirus outbreak and this blog post is designed to outline the steps which we are taking to ensure the wellbeing of our customers and employees. This page will be updated regularly – as required. If you would like to keep updated, please join our Newsletter or if you have any specific queries contact our friendly Helpdesk team for further guidance. UPDATE: 24TH MARCH 2020 We are still open and dispatching orders in our usual timely way.   Due to the announcement by the UK government on the 23 rd March the directors have taken the decision to rotate and segregate its workforce. We have opened up our storage warehouses to also serve as functioning spaces for order delivery. This has further separated our amazing team into large personal spaces. All new spaces have been fitted out with cleaning stations for regular sanitizing. All our office staff have either been furloughed or are working from home. The Helpdesk...

As an environmentally conscious company, in December 2018 we embarked on a new project in order to tackle our single-waste plastic consumption. This project, among other things, tackled our previous plastic fragrance oil bottles being replaced with new eco-friendly aluminium bottles. However, we have received some constructive feedback from our customers regarding the new aluminium bottles about it being hard to open the lids. We have therefore stopped using the 75ml and 170ml aluminium bottles. These two sizes have now been replaced by 60ml and 150ml glass alternatives. These can be seen in the image above. The new glass bottles were designed with the feedback from our customers and the advantageous elements of the glass bottles, such as having child-safe caps and being easily recycled. By changing to a glass alternative, we hope to have resolved the issue that has been outlined whilst still minimising the impact we have on the environment. We do still use the 600ml alum...