Your candle brand. Without the candle factory.
We manufacture, label and prepare your candles in the UK. You focus on building the business.
Minimum run 50 candles · 14 day cure · Poured, labelled and packed in the UK
Your brand. Our manufacturing.
The same candle, finished four different ways. You decide what it says and who it is for. We make it, exactly the same, every time you order it.
Three decisions, then we make it
Choose your candle
One production tested candle to start with. 30cl glass, 200g of soy wax, around 45 to 50 hours of burn. You are not designing a product from scratch, you are choosing one that already works.
Make it yours
Pick a fragrance, upload your label artwork, and we print it here. There is no minimum on labels, which is the reason a run of 50 is possible at all.
We manufacture
We pour it, cure it for 14 days, check every one against your specification and send it to you boxed and ready to sell.
What would this actually make you?
Put your own retail price in and see what is left after you have paid to find the customer. Most calculators stop at gross margin, which flatters everybody and tells you nothing.
Gross Before your costs
This is the number most manufacturers stop at.
Net After them
Adjust your own costs. These are per candle, so split anything you pay per order.
What you actually get, on paper
We have no client logos to show you and we are not going to borrow anyone else's. What we can show you is every document that comes with a production run, because that is the part most manufacturers never let you see until you have already paid.
- Spec
- HW-30CL-S464-10
- Fill
- 200 g ± 3%
- Wick
- Stabilo 12
- Cure
- 14 days
The written description of what we are making. If it is not on here, we are not making it.
Issued before you pay anything- Label
- 64 x 78 mm
- Colour
- CMYK
- Bleed
- 3 mm
- Revisions
- 2 included
Nothing reaches a printing plate until you have approved it, and your approval is timestamped.
Approved by you- Source
- Fragrance house SDS
- Load
- 10%
- Named supplier
- You
- Status
- Awaits your approval
We prepare it from the oil’s safety data sheet at the load we pour. You are the legal supplier and the final check is yours.
We will not print one you have not approved- Fill weight
- Checked
- Label position
- Checked
- Glass condition
- Checked
- Signed by
- A named person
Every run is checked against the specification you approved before it is packed.
One per production run- Format
- HW-YYMMDD-NN
- Traces
- Batch and pour date
- Retained
- 2 units per run
- Kept
- 12 months
If you ever have a problem with a candle, this tells us exactly which pour it came from.
Printed on the back labelSix things we will not do
Promises are cheap. These are the ones that cost us something.
Two ways people come to us
Launch a candle brand
Start a candle company without pouring a single candle. Begin at 50, so a first run costs hundreds and not thousands.
How launching worksScale an existing brand
Stop making candles. Keep the fragrance you already sell, hand us the pouring, and get your week back.
How scaling worksNobody should order 500 of something they have never held
Order a single finished candle for £30, in the fragrance you are considering, with your label on it if your artwork is ready. It takes about 10 days, because we cure it for the full 14 day cycle like everything else. Sending you an uncured candle that throws no scent would tell you nothing.
The £30 comes off your first order, whatever size it is.
Order a sample
What is the minimum, really?
Can I use my own fragrance?
Who is legally responsible for the finished candle?
How long does it take?
Full specification, capability and the rest of the questions