Our story begins long ago when Richard was but a young boy. While other children were watching television or playing video games, young Richard here was in the kitchen with his mother making jam, soap, jellies and… candles.
Being a bit of a hoarder at heart and desperate to do his part for the environment, he rescued old candles that were destined for the family bin and saved them up to make new candles. He taught himself to recycle the wax to make new candles with a candle-making kit his mum gave him when he was 8.
The obsession continued into adulthood and after many years of perfecting the filtration process in his bedroom (not a euphemism), he began to sell his candles at a local Sunday market to earn a bit of extra cash. He met Sargon in 2015, the two of them teamed-up and the business grew from there.
Now our candles are stocked in shops all over the country, as well as in our own shop in Exeter, which is where we make every single one of our candles.