what is a wick candle？

In modern times, it is generally believed that wick candled originated from the torches of primitive times. Primitives applied things such as fat or wax to bark or wood chips, and bundled them together to make torches for lighting. There are also legends that in the pre-Qin period, some people tied mugwort and reeds into a bundle, and then dipped it in some oil and ignited it for lighting.

The burning of the wick candle we see is not the combustion of the paraffin solid, but the ignition device ignites the cotton wick, and the released heat melts the paraffin solid, re-vaporizes, and generates paraffin vapor, which is flammable. When the wick candle is lit, the flame is initially small and gradually becomes larger, and the flame is divided into three layers.

The wick candle is accompanied by fantastic colors, blue romance, red passion, yellow sincerity, green youth, purple mystery. It can create a warm, romantic, fragrant and pleasant colorful atmosphere in various containers and various environments. And it does not emit black smoke, is not easy to spontaneously ignite, has no residual wax liquid after burning, and does not pollute desktop utensils, which is more in line with today's world environmental protection trend.

The main raw material of wick candle is paraffin, which is obtained from the waxy fraction of petroleum through cold pressing or solvent dewaxing. It is a mixture of several higher alkanes. The added accessories are white oil, stearic acid, polyethylene, Fragrance, etc., in which stearic acid is mainly used to improve the softness, and the specific addition depends on what kind of candle is produced.