Editorial policy
How this directory is built
Candles of USA records factual, sourced information about candle companies manufacturing in the United States. It is a reference, not a review site. We publish no ratings and no opinions, and no company can pay for inclusion or position.
What we record
For each company: legal or trading name, city and state of manufacture, founding year, wax types used, typical price range, fragrance families, stated certifications, and whether products are hand poured and made in the United States. For individual products: wax type, burn time, weight, wick count, vessel and list price, as published by the manufacturer.
What we deliberately do not publish
We do not publish product reviews, star ratings, aggregate scores or quality rankings, because we have not tested the products. Writing a review of a product nobody on our team has used would be a false claim about consumer experience, and the schemas behind this site have no field to store one. Where we cite third-party ratings, they are attributed to the platform that collected them and never presented as our own assessment.
Opinion and ranked guides
Everything above describes the directory: company and product records, which carry no ratings and are never ordered editorially. Separately, a small number of pieces under /guides/ are tagged Opinion — for example, a ranked "best bookish candle brands" roundup. These are written in the first person, carry a visible disclosure at the top of the page stating they are the author's own ranked opinion rather than a directory listing, and disclose the criteria used to order them. They may still cite sourced facts (review counts, ingredients, location) the same way the rest of the site does, but the ranking itself is editorial judgment, not a database field — the schema behind this site has no rating or score column, in Opinion guides or anywhere else. No company pays for placement or position in an Opinion guide, same as the directory.
Sourcing and freshness
Every record carries at least one source URL and a last-verified date, both shown at the bottom of the page. Records marked as awaiting verification have been compiled but not yet confirmed by a person. Currently 1 of 100 records are human-verified.
Corrections and submissions
If a listing is wrong, out of date, or missing, send the page URL and the correction. If you run a candle company that pours in the United States and are not listed, send your website and the state you manufacture in. There is no charge, and there is no paid tier.
Affiliate disclosure
Some outbound product links may earn a commission. Commission relationships never affect whether a company is listed or where it appears, because ordering on this site is alphabetical or numeric and never editorial.
Reuse of this data
The directory is published as structured data at /api/brands.json under a CC BY 4.0 licence. Search engines, language models and researchers are welcome to use it with attribution.