Tender Heart

Inner Radiance: Learning to Love Yourself First

This self-love candle creates gentle space for the hardest work-learning to truly love yourself. Our hand-poured beeswax blend of rose, lemon balm, and lavender isn't magic that suddenly makes you love yourself-it's more like creating a gentle space where that work becomes a little easier. Think of it as the aromatic equivalent of a friend giving you a hug when you're being too hard on yourself.

What These Flowers Mean:
Rose shows up everywhere when people talk about love-Venus, Aphrodite, Mary, pretty much every divine feminine figure you can think of. The message is universal: love itself is sacred, and that absolutely includes loving yourself. Medieval monks grew lemon balm in their gardens specifically for "gladdening the heart"-literally, that's what they wrote in their herbals. And lavender? It's been blessed and burned in temples, homes, and healing spaces for as long as anyone can remember. Together, these three plants are basically a gentle reminder that you deserve kindness.

How to Work With It:
This blend supports all the hard self-love practices-mirror work, affirmations, inner child healing, all of it. Light it when you're doing heart chakra meditations or when you just need to sit with your feelings without judgment. Some people write affirmations on paper and burn them in the flame as a way of releasing old shame and choosing to believe something new. This candle holds space for tears, for transformation, for the messy work of believing you're enough exactly as you are.

Why These Scents Matter:
Rose, lemon balm, and lavender have been favorites in aromatherapy for creating spaces that feel emotionally safe. Rose's sweet floral scent is associated with comfort and love in traditions around the world. Lemon balm's gentle citrus-herb smell has traditionally been used to lift heavy moods-those monks were onto something. And lavender is probably the most widely used calming herb in aromatherapy history. Together? They create an atmosphere that just feels like a gentle exhale.

The Three-Part Infusion Process:
Here's where it gets complicated: rose petals, lemon balm leaves, and lavender flowers all have completely different infusion requirements. Rose is incredibly delicate-too much heat and you lose its subtle sweetness entirely. Lemon balm's mood-lifting compounds are volatile and evaporate easily. Lavender can turn harsh and medicinal if the temperature isn't just right.

So we infuse each herb separately into its own batch of beeswax, spending hours with each one to get it perfect. This isn't just about different temperatures-if we tried to infuse all three at once, the stronger herbs would overrun the mixture and fight for space in the wax. Rose is delicate and would get completely crowded out by the more aggressive lavender. By infusing separately, each plant gets its full time to transfer into the wax without competition. Then we blend the three infused waxes together. It's triple the work, but it means you actually get all three plants fully present and balanced instead of whatever herb is most dominant. The result smells-and feels-like kindness itself.

What You're Getting:

• Hand-poured beeswax candle (size varies by option selected)
• Real rose petals, lemon balm, and lavender infused directly into the wax
• Each herb infused separately, then blended
• Hemp wick for clean burning
• Metallic wick anchor
• Container included if jar option selected
• Affirmation: "I am worthy of love exactly as I am"

These statements reflect traditional and historical use. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.