Candles & Messy Dyes

A funny story I thought I’d share. Some that read this blog know the candles at Prairie Soy Candles are made by my mother while I take care of the customer service side of the business. We both burn our own candles though, along with others here and there (most that we’ve received as gifts or had before the business was started).

The other day my mother is burning a candle left over from before we started Prairie Soy Candles. It was a small tin with a very bright red candle inside, and the last candle she owned with dye. I won’t mention the brand of the candle because it really doesn’t matter. It wasn’t a bad candle, but it did have dye.

She’d always been proud of the fact she’d never knocked over a candle (lucky her, I’ve knocked over more than I care to count, even though I COULD count the number of stains and paraffin wax in my carpet). As she’s blowing out her last candle with dye, her hand bumps the tin. Bright red wax spills everywhere - table, walls, and her new-ish carpet. “ARG!” she cries, and proceeds to attempt to scrub red wax out of her carpet. No problem getting out the wax since (luckily) it was a soy wax candle. But the red dye - no such luck.

I found it funny since she’d never done this before, and it just happened to be the very last candle in her house that wasn’t one of ours. :p