We are currently looking to expand our range of products at www.giftshoponline.com.au and are very keen to add wax melts and candles.
I have been researching the pros and cons of both Soy Wax and Palm Wax and also different manufacturer’s producing these. I feel that although Palm wax does produce a wonderful pillar candle, the effects to the environment are just too costly for me to promote! Although most sellers of palm wax products will rave on that it is environmentally friendly, they do not bother to inform you of the devastation planting the Palm trees causes. Most of the World’s Palm wax is produced in Malaysia and Borneo, where the Rainforests are being wiped out in order to make room for plantations of Palm.
These Rainforests are home to several unique and endangered animals who’s habitat is being destroyed at a terrible rate in order to provide Palm Wax to the World Market. One of these endangered species is the Orang-utan, who are being killed in vast numbers as they are seen as a “nuisance” to the Palm Wax Industry.
There are claims of Sustainable Palm Wax plantations being started, but I have to wonder if that only gives a false sense that all Palm wax will be “OK”, when really all it will do is encourage a larger demand for the wax and therefore worsen the current situation in Borneo with more Rainforest destruction.
Soy wax is a much better choice, being produced from Soy beans grown by Farmers (on real farms). Soy wax burns clean and does not produce soot or harm the air quality. It can hold a higher percentage of fragrance than the other waxes so will throw a much better scent throughout your home.
We will soon be adding our Soy Wax Melts to the website - these are the blocks which you break off and burn in the top of your oil burner. These Wax Melts have a high percentage of good quality fragrance. Keep an eye on the website www.giftshoponline.com.au or use this form to register your interest for these.
Please feel free to add comments to this post to let us know your opinions on this topic.
We import our glass lanterns directly from India. The business we chose to manufacture our lanterns is run by brothers who have been taught the trade of handmaking these lanterns by their father and grandfather before them. It is a very close knit business and we managed to build a close relationship with the brothers. Their workshop is definately not anything you would see in Australian manufacturing yet everyone there is more than proud of the products they produce.