to make our home candle free over air quality concerns

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Dp loves candles, but I've always thought they are not good with all that black smoke. We have cut down a lot, but aibu to just get rid of them all?

I hear that beeswax candles are safe, but a pack of 6 tea lights costs 5, so no way can we afford that.

How to spot a mumsnetter - buying lorry loads of soy and burning oranges

Well I have a wood burner. But there is lots of evidence that humans cope with wood fire fine as we have been using them for thousands of years unlike petrol chemicals \ diesel.

Sorry, not true

Breathing in the products of combustion is generally a bad idea.

Candles should be fine though - naice middle class smoke, that

That report is about burning without a chimney... I have an air tight Norwegian cast iron stove that reburns the smoke and is clean air approved. Barely any smoke goes out of the chimney.

I have asthma and candles (especially scented) set me off with terrible coughing fits. I got a manicure last week and couldn't stop coughing due to the scented candle. Same once when I had a massage, coughed throughout due to scented candles. Does wax vaporize into the air?

Drives me mad add i do like the look of them.

Mumsnet at its neurotic finest, this.

I was responding to this: there is lots of evidence that humans cope with wood fire fine as we have been using them for thousands of years

Your stove sounds fine. Candles will be fine. A risk-free life is no life at all

I love candles, I burn loads. Particular fan of those ones you get from a certain party company. Yup I know they are expensive, but one tealight gets rid of that wet dog smell/huby cooking fish smell.

Quite like Yankee, but most of the scents are a bit TOO overpowering for me.

If you hate candles-what do you do if there's a power cut?

You've eliminated all cleaning and beauty products from your home and now you're banning candles?
Your house sounds fun. Eventually you'll have rid yourselves of everything that could ever possibly harm you, and then you can live forever in perpetual boredom.

this has to be the battiest thread on here - OP cant be serious... they must be sitting howling at the responses...

If candles and toxic beauty \ cleaning products is your idea of fun then you need to get out more. I'm going rafting at the weekend for fun and probably on my mountain bike later.

Well that just shows your risk perception is shot, you're worrying a lot about things that won't harm you at all, and then going out and doing relatively very dangerous things that possibly will.
Your obsessive, but misplacedly so.

If there's a power cut then I would use the light of my iPad a torch. I've probably got some tea lights somewhere but they wouldn't be my first thought if the power went!

I'm going rafting at the weekend for fun and probably on my mountain bike later.

Ah Noble, clearly not a child of the 70s when we had power cuts all the time.

In my last house, despite being in the middle of a large town, suffered power cuts on a monthly basis. I always know where there are candles and a lighter now!

Oh yes Pigbin I grew up in rural Scotland in the 70s. Lots of power cuts. We had little camping stoves, candles, gas lanterns etc. We also had a generator for when it was off for days and I vividly remember my dad siphoning petrol for it, I think they wanted to put the freezer on for a couple of hours.

My folks still live in the sticks where the power goes out in a high wind. Every room is furnished with candles and matches.

Do people still have powercuts?!

I had one in the last ten years, got an auto text when I was out saying it was down and should be back on in an hour. If I hadn't of got the text I wouldn't of known.

As I said, at my last house in the centre of a town we got them about once a month.
I think we've had two since living in this house and we've been here 18 months.

Father Jacks ear wax!

We had a power cut just a couple of weeks ago - the street lights were out and everything. All very eerie.
Still..we had plenty of candles, so it was ok.

if you hadn't had the text you wouldn't have known.

Yes, lots of people have lots of powercuts.

Yankee candles smell very synthetic. Do not like, though the cinnamon one smells authentic.

Don't candles also burn the oxygen in your air, my mum told me not to use them as bad for asthma?

Don't candles also burn the oxygen in your air,

All fire burns oxygen.

We have frequent mini power cuts lasting a couple of minutes and had a long one last winter when it was stormy.

This winter they are predicting more frequent power cuts if the weather is bad. There are lots of power plants down unexpectedly and if the demand for power is high we will struggle.

Better get your non environmentally friendly led battery powered tea lights ordered OP.