Check Out These Great – and Safe - Alternatives to Candles

6/10/2020 (Permalink)

There are excellent candle alternatives available

Check Out These Great – and Safe - Alternatives to Candles

Candles are an ancient method of providing light, heat, and ambiance to a room. Modern candles also often create a pleasant aroma, which may be natural – such as the case with beeswax – or may be an added element to the wax.
Of course, they also have a profoundly serious downside: they’re really dangerous! According to the National Fire Protection Association, candles were responsible for 7,900 home fires between 2013 and 2017. The average annual cost of these fires is staggering:

• 80 deaths
  
• 720 injuries
  
• $268 million
  
  

You can bet that each person who lost a home believed that a candle fire wouldn’t happen to them! Fortunately, there are excellent candle alternatives available.

It’s Hard to Give Up Candles
Candles are perhaps the ideal combination of technology and primal need. Candles (mostly) tame fire, bringing it inside and connecting humans to their deepest past.
Candles add a sense of relaxation and intimacy to a room. The natural flickering seems to trigger something inside the brain that it finds comfortable. They can transform an ordinary space to something with an edge of mystery – or at least a touch of magic. If only they weren’t so dangerous!

Great New Candle Alternatives Are Now Available
Depending on what you’re trying to achieve, there are good options available. If you’re only trying to get the wonderful aroma of a scented candle, an oil diffuser is ideal. It’s cheaper in the long run than candles, is flameless, and offers a wide variety of scents. Reed diffusers also work for aromatherapy.
Flameless candles are exceedingly popular candle alternatives. They use a fake flame to lend a candle-like visual ambiance to a room. Wax warmers are also quite popular. Some will hold traditional scented candles and warm the wax enough to release their aroma without a flame. Others use scented wax made specifically for them.
Hopefully, you’ll never experience fire from candles. If you do, you’ll need a licensed fire damage restoration company with years of experience cleaning up smoke damage in Key Largo, FL. SERVPRO is Faster to Any Size Disaster.