The Roosevelts Candle Co.

Who The Roosevelts are

A family company in Nashville, Tennessee, founded by Jason and Katie Kloess and hand-poured there. The line is built around American wild places — national parks, cities, landscapes — and the phrase they use for it is “crafted for the wild at heart”.

What they pour

The candles use blends of soy, coconut and beeswax rather than a single wax, with cotton wicks. A multi-wax blend is a compromise with a purpose: soy holds scent and burns slowly, coconut gives a cleaner melt pool, beeswax firms the whole thing up so a wide vessel holds its shape. Scents are built on fragrance oils rather than essential oils.

Formats

• 10 oz and 3-wick candles — the standard sizes; the 3-wick for a room where a single flame will not reach the edges.
• Travel tins — small, lidded, and the sensible way to try a scent.
• Reed diffusers and aromatic oils — the same scent library without a flame.
• Stone diffusers — a porous stone you add oil to; no heat, no electricity, and a much shorter reach than reeds.

Giving back

The company states that it is a member of 1% for the Planet, committing at least 1% of annual sales to environmental non-profits, and that it funds the planting of a tree for every candle bought. We are repeating the brand’s own statement rather than verifying the figures ourselves.