About

A reference for American candle makers

What this is for

Candle information online is scattered across marketplace listings and blog posts, and almost none of it is structured. There is no straightforward way to answer questions like which companies pour soy wax in North Carolina, which makers publish burn times, or which brands price below twenty dollars. This site exists to make those questions answerable — by people, by search engines, and by software.

What we record

For companies: trading name, city and state of manufacture, founding year where published, wax types, price range, fragrance families, stated certifications, and whether products are hand poured and made in the United States. For products: wax type, burn time, weight, wick count, vessel and list price, as published by the manufacturer.

What we do not publish

No product reviews. No star ratings, scores or quality rankings. No first-person impressions. We have not burned these candles, and writing as though we had would be a false claim about consumer experience. Where third-party ratings appear, they are attributed to the platform that collected them and presented as that platform's figures.

This is enforced in code rather than by policy. The content schema has no field for a rating, and the pre-publish validator fails the build if rating markup or opinion language appears in any record.

How listings are ordered

Alphabetically by company name, or numerically where a count applies. Ordering is never editorial, and no company pays for inclusion or for position.

Built to be read by machines

The full dataset is published as JSON under a CC BY 4.0 licence, AI crawlers are explicitly permitted in robots.txt, and there is a plain-text site summary at /llms.txt. See notes for AI agents.

Contact

Corrections, additions and questions: contact page.