Candles: How To Find The Right One For Any Occasion

Tradition has it that you use white or blue candles if you are looking for inner peace but purple or indigo ones if you want to improve your intuitive abilities. Also, you use orange or blue candles for healing and black ones for getting rid of confusions. Yellow candles improve creativity while red ones add to passion and power. On the other hand, pink candles contribute to romance and love while green ones to fertility and wealth.

Scented candles are an ideal way to liven up your environment with that special something when sitting with friends. Fragrance from candles can fill up the entire house giving you a special feel. Aromatic candles come in all types of fragrances from natural ones like rose and jasmine to funny-scented ones like that of coffee. Many aromatic candles are specially prepared to help create an environment of prayer with fragrances that are typical of such settings at ceremonies in India and China. Special aromatic candles have become essential parts of spa sessions too.

A whole industry has grown around candle stands and holders. Moving a step beyond them are the floating candles. These have become extremely popular across the world as they are simple, flat and wide-based items that you can set floating in a bowl of water from the kitchen for an elegant look. Floating candles can also be aromatic and used as decorative pieces. These candles make a great conversation-starter. You can add ferns and leaves to the bowl of floating candles for greater aesthetic effect.

But don't use floating candles for dinner parties because you won't be able to see what you're eating properly. Floating candles are more suitable for conversations with friends and informal gatherings or meditation sessions.

Candles never go out of fashion as gifts either. No matter who the person you are picking a gift for and no matter what the occasion, candles work just great as gifts. You can find candles in all kinds of quaint shapes and sizes too. There are the chocolate-like candles that children love or the heart-shaped candles that you can give out to a newly-wed couple.

You can pick up some fabulous candles in jars or tins designed according to all kinds of themes like fairy tales, casino, romantic, nature and wildlife etc. These are perfect giveaways at theme parties. You can use tiny candles that come as tea-lights too. Glass jar candles come with additional embellishments like silk bags, lucky charms and trinkets.

And, while we're on the subject of candles, here is how to remove wax stains easily and quickly from cloth. Simply scrape off the wax first with a blunt object then rub eucalyptus oil on the area and send the cloth piece for laundering as usual. It works most of the time for removing stains.