a look in the studio
Courtney Jones
you may have burned our candles, shopped from us online or in person, or purchased our products from one of our retailers… but have you seen where our candles are made?! we thought it would be kinda fun to show off our studio- to share the space where we mix the magic that we send to your home…
our studio is broken down into stations where we have different tasks- mixing, pouring, cooling, labeling, and shipping. this structure is important for a few reasons like work efficiency and cleanliness (we like to keep melted wax away from our beautiful labels and packaging!)
here is our mixing + pouring station. we have our large waxmelter where we melt around 45-50lbs of wax at a time. we use pouring pitchers to add fragrance oils in, stir, and then pour that batch into our candle vessels.
once the candles look good, we move to labeling! each candle gets labeled by hand with their appropriate collection / scent label.
our studio is located on wealthy street in grand rapids, michigan - a busy shopping district full of coffee shops, restaurants, and other small retail shops.
in our studio space, we have a small showroom where you can shop our collections as well as other candle accessories, homewares and art.
so next time you light up a sable candle, remember the faces and hands that made it, and space it came from. hope you enjoyed the sneak peek into our studio life!
we use bakery style racks to house our cooling candles. after they are handpoured, we move the tray to one of these racks to finish fully setting.
after setting, we do a quality check for any imperfections in the wax (pits, uneven setting, clumpy wax, bubbles, etc). If they need to be fixed, we move them to another rack.
after each candle is labeled, we do another quality check before sending the candles to our backstock shelves, out in orders, or to one of our retailers.
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