For many years, I have worked creating cosmetics with oils. I have created lip balms, salves, cold pressed soaps, and the occasional bath bomb. I love creating from scratch. Corey, my partner in The Buzzard Farm, asked “Why aren’t you making candles?”
Honestly, it was a very good question. Candles were right up my alley. I started creating everyday products for our personal consumption years ago. So a few weeks later, he surprised me with a starter soy wax candle kit. As in, it came with soy wax and some candle wicks. The kit did not even have instructions. Nevertheless, I figured it out very quickly. I designed my own scents and decided to throw on my hand-drawn Buzzard Farm label and the finished products were, to my surprise, stunning. I loved the simple black and white logo with the natural un-dyed soy wax. I never had the intention of using candle dye. Just the soaps I had created in the past, I wanted to keep my candles as close to nature as I could.
From that point, I sourced all of my soy wax from a company that grows and harvests soy and then creates wax finished soy wax pellets from start to finish in the United States. I do this for a multitude of reasons but the most pressing is that I want my products to be as environmentally conscious as I feasibly can. That is why as an alternative to my original 12 oz jars, I began adding recycled jars to the candle line up. Each purchase from our Climate Action Collection also includes a two dollar donation to a climate action charity. These candles are up on our Etsy shop, but I can make any of them custom order in our six original scents.
Our five original scents include:
Chicken Math
Farmstead
Old Barn
Cowboy Boot
Farm Fields
Side Saddle
We can do custom orders in any size of our original farmhouse scents. We also take wholesale orders. Email us at thebuzzardfarm@gmail.com for prices for wholesale or custom orders.