About Us
THE QUEENS BEHIND THE SCENTS
Just two husbands looking out for everyone by offering luxury candles at an affordable price. High quality yet completely affordable. We offer handmade all-natural wax candles in various sizes within various vessels. We do not believe in all the retail mark-ups, expensive and wasteful packaging, so that the cost savings...go to you! Let us help you find your fragrance at a fraction of the cost,
because we truly believe in luxury for less.
We have been married for 9 years and currently live in the Albany Park Neighborhood of Chicago with our 5 dogs. Curtis Bumgarner is originally from North Carolina and Andrew Cookson is originally from Liverpool, England. They met in Chicago, IL back in 2013 when Andrew Cookson was in Chicago for a work conference, they spent the first 6 months of their relationship by dating on Skype and Whatsapp.
We started making candles back in 2019 as a hobby and something to do with friends and family and when the Pandemic hit it evolved into something more and it spilled over to our neighbors and then coworkers and their families and friends and then we made it a business. We will open our very first store front in July 2022 at 3726 W Montrose Ave, Chicago, IL 60618.
Products Free of Cruelty, Parabens & Phthalates
That's right, we chose essential & fragrance oils that are not tested on animals. And trust when we say they are free of those nasty a** parabens, phthalates, carcinogens, toxins, and other hazardous chemicals commonly found in other (and cheap) fragrance oils. So all of our candle lines and collections are non-toxic.
What is a fragrance oil you ask? Well, because essential oils are not available for every scent that we (or any other candlemaker or even soap makers) like to use, synthetic fragrance chemicals are available to us that come in either powder or liquid form. And we use these safe, concentrated compounds when no essential oil is available to create the scent of, let's say, chocolate or apples.
Our waxes are made of 100% All Natural Soy and Coconut Wax Blends. Sometimes we use 100% Natural Beeswax or 100% Soy Pillar Wax to create unique molded pillar candles (and will be labeled as such for those that believe the use of Beeswax is non-vegan) and we can assure you the process of which the Beeswax is procured, no harm is done to any bees.
Also, some of our wicks are 100% all-natural ring-spun cotton and do not contain zinc, lead or any other metals. They also have a natural wax coating, comprised of vegetable wax to make the wicks easy to light and so they produce no harmful smoke. Our other wicks are environmentally friendly all-natural wooden wicks. All wood used to manufacture the wooden wicks is purchased in the USA and only from mills that maintain an FSC-certification and practice environmentally friendly forestry standards. The company that makes these particular wicks we use require us to show their patent information as follows:
Pat. .www.lumetique.com/patents
We want to give you some peace of mind by letting you know we only work with the safest supplies available. We will always be committed to using the safest, highest quality, most thoroughly tested fragrance and essential oil lines in the industry.