Add Instant Cozy Vibes to Your Home With These Amazing Natural Candles
Add Instant Cozy Vibes to Your Home With These Amazing Natural Candles
It's really no mystery that we love a good scented candle. An instant sensory mood booster and a little luxury you can add to virtually any room in your home, candles have been scientifically proven to soothe us. Before you light a candle in your personal space, though, you'll want to be mindful of its ingredients. Choose a nontoxic, natural candle, and stay away from environmentally harmful paraffin wax. As a general rule of thumb, look for waxes made from beeswax, coconut oil, or soy blends that won't emit potentially toxic fumes when their wick is lit.
We've curated a list of our current favorite natural candles that are made from clean ingredients. These candles each have a special, mood-lifting scent, and will instantly turn any house into a cozy home.
1) LAFCO New York Rosemary Eucalyptus Candle
LAFCO
amazon.com
$65.00
Brain-boosting rosemary is the star of the show in this fresh and herbaceous natural soy candle from LAFCO. Mellow and soothing eucalyptus notes chill in the background of this one, conjuring up blissed-out spa day vibes.
We love lighting this natural candle in our office or personal work space to focus and recharge.
2) RITUALS The Rituals of Ayurveda Scented Candle
RITUALS
amazon.com
$35.00
The aptly named brand RITUALS knows a thing or two about creating a sensual vibe, and this Rituals of Ayurveda candle is, well, very vibe-y. It's also made from natural sunflower wax.
With an ingredient list inspired by Ayurvedic medicine, the most prominent notes in this candle are soothing Indian rose and sweet almond oil. We like lighting this candle in the evening as part of our bedtime ritual.
3) Mrs. Meyer's Clean Day Basil Scented Soy Candle (Pack of 2)
Mrs. Meyer's Clean Day
amazon.com
$18.66
We love Mrs. Meyer's line of clean household items, but her basil-scented soy candle is our go-to for when guests come over. Incredibly fresh and crisp basil is the only thing going on in this scent story, and it's impactful.
Light this one in the kitchen or bathroom to give your entire home that "I just cleaned" scent.
4) Boy Smells Ash Scented Candle
BOY SMELLS
nordstrom.com
$32.00
Los Angeles-based Boy Smells might fall into the luxurious "status candle" category, but their subdued scented candles all have this powerful haunting quality. Every candle is made from a natural blend of beeswax and coconut.
Our favorite from the line, Ash, has notes of firewood, smoke, palo santo, and hay. It makes us feel like we're teenagers breaking into a creepy abandoned church on Halloween ... in a good way.
5) Ellis Brooklyn Pseudonym Scented Candle
ELLIS BROOKLYN
nordstrom.com
$60.00
Inspired by the D.H Lawrence poem "Figs" (much better read aloud), this nontoxic candle from Ellis Brooklyn has an intensely juicy and seductive scent with notes of jasmine, pepper, sandalwood, and (of course) figs.
This candle's wax is made from a nontoxic soy blend.
6) Brooklyn Candle Studio Santal Noir Candle
Brooklyn Candle Studio
nordstrom.com
$35.00
A musky, masculine blend of earthy notes like cedar, pine, sandalwood, and vetiver, Brooklyn Candle Studio's Santal Noir is an incredibly sultry soy-based candle. If a bro cave ever smelled as woodsy and comforting as this candle, we'd curl up and never want to leave.
7) MALIN+GOETZ Vetiver Candle
MALIN+GOETZ
nordstrom.com
$55.00
It would be remiss of us to not include cult favorite brand MALIN+GOETZ on our natural candle list. These candles are made from an earth-friendly blend of beeswax, vegetable, and soy waxes.
Pretty much every candle in their lineup smells incredible and will fill your home with a comforting fragrance, but we have a thing for this vetiver-heavy pick. It has a clean, earthy aroma that instantly relaxes us while we're hanging out with friends or just kicking back at home.
8) Otherland Canopy Scented Candle
OTHERLAND
nordstrom.com
$36.00
If you could bottle up the freshness of a weekend hike or jumping into a calm lake during the summer, this candle would be that smell.
Packed with intensely green notes of fresh California fig, ivy, and moss, Otherland's Canopy candle transports us to an exotic, lush rainforest. This candle is made from a clean, nontoxic blend of soy and coconut waxes.
9) Moodcast Fragrance Co. Stunner Scented Candle
Moodcast Fragrance Co.
neimanmarcus.com
$42.00
New brand Moodcast Fragrance Co. is all about experiencing the emotional side of scent, and this Stunner soy-based candle conjures up nothing but positivity.
With energizing notes of violet and grounding sandalwood and rosewood, this is the candle you should light when you're getting ready for a date or really just feeling yourself.
10) D.S. & Durga Concrete After Lightning Candle
D.S. & Durga
net-a-porter.com
$65.00
Conceptual Brooklyn-based fragrance house D.S. & Durga captures ridiculously specific scents in their candles. Concrete After Lightning is a spot-on interpretation of that wet, metallic smell of the sidewalk after a thunderstorm.
These cruelty-free candles are made from a nontoxic soy and beeswax blend.
11) PHLUR Howl Ceramic Candle
PHLUR
credobeauty.com
$68.00
We love PHLUR's line of cruelty-free, nontoxic, natural candles made from a soy, apricot, and coconut wax blend. Dark and moody, Howl has notes of saffron, vetiver, tobacco, and oud, and reminds us of sitting in the back of a dimly lit jazz club.
Enhance the vibe with the strike of a match.