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The Joy of Soy

The warmth of candlelight remains the same - but how you create it has changed!

When you desire superior quality, great customer care and a simply beautiful, wonderfully scented, hand-poured candle, choose Alpine Soy Candles ~ to keep or to give....

Alpine Soy Candles ~ More Than A Name

We share our company headquarters with our home on 60 acres in the heart of the Colorado Rockies. We named our corner of the world, WindSong, after the high country wind that shears through the valley and around the mountains from the South. Passing through the cedar and pinion, the summer wind imparts a warm sweet scent across the land. We've dedicated our acreage as wildlife habitat and are registered with the National Wildlife Federation and Brooks Bird Club. We also maintain a contract with the USDA to preserve the riparian area created by Divide Creek.  Our 'offices' are home to mountain lion, wild turkey, elk and deer, eagles and hawks, rabbits, chipmunks, beaver, tons of songbirds, and many more! There's even an interesting story about our resident bear on the "other favorite scents" page! We cherish our beautiful mountain surroundings and are delighted to offer you something very special from our home to yours..

Alpine Soy Candles - A Superior Choice

Having worked in the candle craft for over thirty years, we were as excited as our customers to discover the wonders of soy wax.

Soy wax is made from soy beans - a renewable resource grown here on American soil - supporting American farmers. Our family comes from farm country in northern Oklahoma, so we know first-hand how important sustainable agriculture and a strong farm economy is. Did you know that except for one year in 1947, America has held the world title in soy bean production since 1942!

What separates an Alpine Soy Candle from other candles?

Informed consumers know there are a number of factors which set some soy candle manufacturers apart from others. Those factors tend to be 1) the soy wax, 2) the scent fragrance 3) the colorant, and 4) the wick.

About Our Soy Wax

Please note:  we use the term "soy wax" as a reference which is used widely within the industry to describe wax made from soybeans. Our use doesn't suggest a particular brand or process. We point this out to help avoid confusion as the industry wrangles over two sometimes conflicting interests: 1) describing something (in this case, wax) to the consumer, and 2) coping with manufacturers who trademark combinations of the limited selection of words involved, i.e. "soy" and "wax".

Developed in the 1990's, soy wax has become the preferred choice of discerning candle buyers. Superior to petroleum-based wax, soy wax burns typically twice as long (due to a lower melting point), and reduces sooty residue by burning cleaner - provided the wick is properly trimmed. (For more candle burning tips please visit out Tips and Safety page).

Alpine Soy Candles burn neatly too. With less mess and a more even burn (please see or Tips and Safety page) you won't be embarrassed by the unsightly globs of poorly melted wax  clinging to the edges of your container which are so often associated with paraffin candles.

Petroleum (paraffin) wax offers one thing that pure 100% soy wax doesn't - the ability to sculpt it and craft a free-standing pillar candle. But, there are so many reasons to avoid paraffin wax: for starters, the environment suffers from the extraction and combustion of petroleum products, and so does our health. Many people simply want to enjoy a cleaner environment and  fresher smelling fragrance when burning a candle.  Not all soy candles offer that. While there are other manufacturers like ourselves who value the natural superiority of 100% pure soy wax, settle for only straight answers before you buy. Creating and capitalizing on consumer confusion, some soy candle manufacturers tout questionably  vague 'stabilization' processes, 'additives' or 'blends' and 'bases'. When you buy an Alpine Soy Candle, you can be assured you are purchasing a candle made of  only 100% pure soy wax.  The finest choice for scent preservation, easy clean-up and a long, cleaner burn.

Though we miss the ability to create one of a kind wax sculptures from traditional wax  (the industry provides "blended" soy based products to allow for this ability) we prefer to use only 100% pure, additive-free soy wax, and believe our dedication is worth it as we happily settle for beautiful, recyclable  glass containers to display our candles in.

About Our Fragrance

In order to scent your soy wax candle, we work with the best fragrances available on the market today. As such, we always select soy-based scents whenever available - which, fortunately for us and our customers, is usually the case. Our next choice is vegetable-based; and we always strive for fragrances which meet the "body-safe" standard (even though we do not recommend using our candles or sachets in any way other than they are intended; that is, do not consume or apply externally).  These preferences may cost a little more, but we provide this information so you know that the only other ingredient present in our wax is the scent, and we strive continually to use only the highest quality, safest scents available.

Alpine Soy Candles triple scents each batch we make. "Triple scenting" is an industry term which is used to describe a  wax-to-scent saturation ratio. Simply put, it assures you that your soy wax candle is fully saturated with scent, establishing a perfect balance between stable burning and powerful "throw". The 'throw' or 'cast' of a candle scent refers to how far reaching the scent is. The "notes" of a scent (referred to throughout our scent descriptions) indicate a scent's levels or complexity; i.e. bottom note - or base note; midnote and top note or notes. We actually gave up buying candles for a number of years because the only time we enjoyed the scent was after blowing the thing out -- and then we got a snootful of soot! Yuk. A favorite aspect of our soy candles is the surprising throw they are capable of casting. When we burn one of our candles, we can actually smell the fragrance throughout a room. And we think, aside from all the other benefits of a soy candle, enjoying the fragrance is what burning in a great candle is all about!

For those who cannot tolerate fragrances at all, Alpine Soy Candles manufactures a fragrance free variety, Distinctly Soy, increasing the chances that more people can enjoy the pure and simple pleasures of a soy wax candle. We were delighted to discover that, even though the Distinctly Soy candle is not in any way scented, it possesses a wonderfully warm subtle scent attributable to the vegetable-based wax itself. The scent is a very very subtle, soft, almost milk and honey fragrance!

About Our Colorant

Unlike some manufacturers, we elect to avoid colorants -- for several  reasons: to further provide you the cleanest, purest scented candle available on the market, to provide you the freedom of choosing a favorite scent without the worry of coordinating with your decor's color palette, and to facilitate easy soap and warm-water clean-up. You can't do that with a petroleum based candle - and the colorant added to some soy candles can make clean-up a whole lot trickier!

About Our Wicks

One of the most important yet easily overlooked aspects of a candle is its wick. As long as it lights, few of us question the composition of the wick itself.  Believe it or not, there are wicks commonly found on the market which contain lead, and even paper -- wholly unnecessary and even dangerous additions, in our estimation. Our customers can breath easier knowing  Alpine Soy Candles uses only pure cotton wicking in every one of  our candles. And while some manufactures will cut corners to increase profits, such as using paraffin-dipped wicks, all Alpine Soy Candles are made using only soy wax-dipped cotton wicks.

Benefit from Our Genuine Dedication

We're not a big corporation. Alpine Soy Candles is a family operated cottage business. While we may not be in every chain-store across America, our candles can be purchased right here on-line as well as through select retailers, and you can bet  we pour every candle with you, our loyal customer, at the forefront of our production process. You've shown us time and again that our attention to detail and unsurpassed commitment to genuine customer care make all the difference in your buying decision. Our dedication to manufacturing the highest quality soy wax candle available today may seem a little fanatical, but we believe in building the best - not being the biggest. We sell candles we would be happy to buy or receive ourselves, and wouldn't think of  selling less to you.

Enjoying a soy wax candle doesn't have to be a guilty pleasure. Alpine Soy Candles brings you the best of all worlds: our experience in the candle crafting industry, our respect and love for our environment, and our desire to offer a purely enjoyable alternative to dirty, overly-perfumed, chemical-smelling petroleum based candles. Our happy solution? Alpine Soy Candles!

All in all? Alpine Soy Candles offers you the very best!

Using no artificial colorant additives, only pure, soy wax-dipped cotton wicking, pure 100% natural soy wax, and triple scenting each carefully hand-poured candle to provide an optimal degree of scent saturation and aromatic 'throw', the quality of an Alpine Soy Candle is unequaled - proudly providing you the very finest in long-lasting enjoyment.

With so many sizes, styles and fabulous original scents to choose from, indulge yourself or another in the true joy of soy with an Alpine Soy Candle today!

Thank you for considering an Alpine Soy Candle!

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