For our female audience, there’s no escaping how big of a role your hormones play in not only your mind but your body too. Always shifting and moving, making you feel strong and powerful or sometimes low and weak. Mood changes that are out of our control and symptoms that we wish away, until they disappear later in life and then some wish them back.
As a female founder, with PCOS and Endometriosis, hormones have played a huge factor in my everyday life since puberty. So, when I found out that most candles include hormone altering ingredients, it’s safe to say I was beyond angry. Products designed and marketed as relaxing and for calm moments, pumped full of chemicals that alter our internal endocrine system and confuse our hormones. How could this be allowed?!
Many like to turn a blind eye, or claim we are over-dramatizing the facts. But science is science, and hormone disruptors are hormone disruptors, there are no ifs and buts. I have trawled through nearly every oil company in the UK and I can tell you now, 99% of all oil companies stock available for purchase includes oils with hormone altering ingredients, and usually well over 50% of what they have on offer too.
But why do many brands including small businesses use ingredients like this? Usually because they don't know. A lot of people unfortunately trust the larger oil suppliers to be selling 'safe' to use oils and do not think to ingredient check, and even if they did, wouldn't know what to look for. There is also a lot more choice of scent on offer when you use these bad ingredients. Its cheaper to manufacture scents using hormone disruptors and you can create much more versatile scent profiles - which for most candle brands is the ultimate goal.
I decided to create a full hormone safe brand, and then went a step further. Our hormone balancing candle ‘Inhale Power’ is designed using specific essential oils to help ease your monthly menstruation, perimenopause and menopause symptoms. With essential oils believed to ease cramping, calm the nervous system, stimulate blood flow and lower stress related hormones.
How each thoughtful ingredient in our candle specifically helps:
🌿 Clary Sage
🌙 Helps support hormonal balance and regulate fluctuating hormones
💗 Known for easing menstrual cramps and tension
✨ Encourages emotional calm, helping reduce mood swings and overwhelm
🌸 Traditionally used to support menopause symptoms such as hot flushes and anxiety
🌹 Rose Geranium
🌼 Supports hormonal harmony and emotional balance
💞 Helps soothe PMS symptoms including irritability and low mood
🌿 Comforting and grounding during perimenopause and menopause transitions
✨ Promotes feelings of stability, calm, and gentle uplift
💜 Lavender
😴 Deeply calming for the nervous system, easing stress and anxiety
🌙 Supports better sleep, especially during hormonal fluctuations
🌿 Helps relieve tension, headaches, and emotional overwhelm
🤍 Encourages relaxation during menstruation and menopause
The candle industry is always moving, and new ingredients are discovered to pose a threat each year. What our brand promises is to always be honest, upfront and move with any new discoveries - keeping our candles fully compliant and safe (to our standards, not the poor industry standards).
Bringing the very best, always 🌸