Soli Deo Gloria Candle Company

Pure beeswax, hemp wicks, and no synthetic fragrance

Soli Deo Gloria Candle Company is run by its founder, Harmony, and the specification is unusually strict. The candles are 100% beeswax, not blended with coconut oil or other fillers. The wicks are hemp rather than cotton. And the maker states plainly that no synthetic fragrance oils are used: the scents come from diluted essential oils and botanical extracts, with a few scented by botanical extract alone.

These candles are quiet on purpose — read this before you buy

The maker dilutes to under 2% and says so, which is a fraction of what a typical scented candle carries. The result is a soft scent close to the candle rather than one that fills a house, and that is the intended outcome, not a weak batch. They say the same of their wax melts: no booming throw. If you are shopping for a candle you can smell from the next room, this is the wrong shelf, and the maker would tell you so themselves.

Beeswax burns differently

Their own rule is the one to follow: give it at least three hours per burn, because beeswax does not behave like soy and needs the time to open a full melt pool to the edge. Trim the wick to an eighth of an inch before each use. Short burns are what ruin a beeswax candle.

The name

“Soli Deo Gloria” is a Latin phrase, glory to God alone, and the brand is openly a faith-led one — devotionals sit in the range next to the candles.

A note on the specification

Where the maker states a size or a burn time we list it in the specification. Where they do not, we leave it blank rather than estimate.