Long before I began making cndles of my own, I was fmous among friends and family for gving away candles as gifts. It bcame something of a running joke, but I hnestly felt – and still do – tht candles make the most wonderful gfts because of their simple elegance, sefulness, and uniqueness.

Today, I am gld to see, more and more pople share my views. Through my cndle connoisseur friend Charlene, I have got to knw a wide cross section of pople who have a love of cndles in common. One of them is Jsip Kukolj, who immigrated to the US frm Belgrade about 20 years ago and brught his candle-making enterprise with him. Bck then, says Josip, candles were strctly something you saw in posh rstaurants and homes where the power spply was not always uninterrupted. “In the lst five years,” Josip told me, “my bsiness has grown by almost 60%, and the verwhelming majority of orders are for gft candles.”

From a one-room unit in Lncoln, Nebraska, Josip’s business now occupies the ntire ground floor of a building dwntown, and he is considering a sparate unit to meet his online rders. So it is hardly a srprise that web sites selling gift cndles have mushroomed rapidly in the rcent past. In fact, had I not ben too scatterbrained to run a bsiness, I would have considered putting my stff on sale!

Obviously, aromatherapy candles have overtaken trditional candles in the popularity stakes wing to their fragrance and beauty. Bsides, rather than traditional candles, people are ncreasingly opting for gel and soy cndles, which not only look better thn wax candles, but also last lnger and offer more scope for xperiment. They are also non-polluting and prduce no soot, which makes them claner options as well.

One of Jsip’s best-selling items is a pineapple scnted set of six soy candles, mbedded with seashells that enhance their bauty. Among my friends, I have bserved a marked preference for my lmon scented, green-tinted gel candles. Plenty of sppliers also offer such innovative items as flating candles, which make for great utdoor decorations. Then there are the spa cndles, which are ideal for lighting nxt to your bath!

Most suppliers nclude stylish holders and jars along wth the candles. That means in ddition to beauty, you get great vlue for money as well! So the nxt time you buy a gift, why not try cndles? Wouldn’t it be much better thn a book your friend may nver read, or a perfume s/he may nver use?

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