About Edgewater Candles

We’ve always been makers. When we first started pouring our own candles, we fell in love with the process of creating something unique with our own hands. But with us, hobbies often look more like obsessions. We quickly found ourselves searching for higher quality ingredients and customizing our fragrance offerings. Just a year later, Edgewater Candles could be found in shops and craft fairs across Chicagoland. The one thing we love more than making candles is being a part of an incredible community of crafters, small business owners, and candle lovers. It allows us to collaborate with other artisans, learn and grow with fellow makers, and share the passion for our unique palette of elevated modern fragrances. Our eco-friendly practices include eliminating plastic from our packing materials, we use crunched post-consumer recycled kraft paper and starch void filler to pack our boxes. We also strive to use as little plastic as possible in our product packages, choosing reusable and recyclable metal and glass wherever possible. Every light in our store and makerspace is an energy efficient LED. We help consumers reduce the candles they need per burn hour by using soy instead of faster burning waxes. We also have a recycling program where we invite our customers to bring back our empty containers for us to reuse or recycle and we offer a 10% discount when they do so as an incentive. Read their story