Did you know….. Candles on Warmers

Many people like to use their jar candles on those warmers that you are able to buy.  While it seems like a great idea as you do not have the flame, it really is not beneficial for the candle, and you will find when you decide to burn the candle that the scent is not as strong as it should be.

This is due to the way that a candle is made and is designed to be used.  When making a candle, the fragrance oil bonds to the wax particles during creation.  This is done in a liquid state, where the oil is mixed very well but at a low temperature to not burn the oil off.  Just before it gets to the cooling temperature, the wax is poured into its container where it solidifies quickly.

When you put your candle onto a warmer, the warmer melts the wax from the bottom to top, which causes the fragrance to evaporate into the air from the entire candle.  When you burn a candle, the fragrance is only evaporated from the 1/4“to ½ “of melted wax. 

Due to this, you can understand how the candle will be fragrant much longer when you light the wick versus putting it on a warming plate.

Review of Homeology

My favorite thing about the Homeology line is that they are not full of chemicals. With two cats around the house, they get into everything and lick the strangest things, so I like the fact that there are no poisons on the floors or counters that they lick. I love the fact that these cleaners smell great, due to the aromatherapy scents in them, so I do not have to open the windows and air my place out after cleaning.

Many demonstrators have posted a variety of ways to use these products beyond their original use, but because that is not their design, I will not advocate these, use at your own risk. I know for myself, when my cats are sick and leave presents on the carpet, I clean it up and then spray the All Purpose cleaner on it. I let it set for a few minutes and then wipe it up, and I don’t end up with a stain.

- Sharon

Why have a Gold Canyon Candles Party?

There are many home party companies out there, and they are all competing to get your money.  So how do you decide which company to have a party with?

Well, a great method is to determine what company has the products that you like the best, and which has products that you are likely to use.

Chances are if you are reading this blog, you are familiar with Gold Canyon, but if not, here are the reasons to shop with us:

Variety of Product – Flame or Flameless products, Spa products, Cleaning Products, Décor

Affordable – We have products ranging from $9 to $34 for Candles, and décor items up to $50.  There is a price that everyone can afford.  Not to mention, once your candle is done, you can re-use the jar around your home!

Strong Scents – Our scented products fill your entire house, burning or not.

Clean Burn – Due to our double wicks, our candles burn more evenly and cleanly. 

Free Product – Just for hosting, I will give you a gift.  Once you have $150 in sales, you start earning credits for free product, and you can earn 50% off items and free items once you hit different sales levels.  If someone books off your party, you will earn free product at their party as well!

Scent Recipe - Fall Festival

Featured Blend: Fall Festival This group of wonderful fragrances creates a blend that will warm your heart and home. Warm and delicious fall desserts with a sniff of sweet candies. Just the right amount of yummy goodness!  ·        19 oz. Warm Apple Crisp ·        16 oz. Candy Corn ·        8 oz. Spiced Gumdrops ·        Pumpkin Pie votives (3) Scent Blending Recipes are carefully selected recipes of individual candles that when burning together, create their own unique, blended scent experience.   To maximize your fragrant experience, use the exact sizes and quantities noted in each recipe – a slight alteration can be like adding salt when you needed sugar. FIRST: Arrange the candles on a heat-safe surface with the largest in the middle and smaller candles interspersed throughout. For votive and Tealight candles, use a holder to protect the surface. SECOND: Place each candle approximately two inches apart in your arrangement. THIRD: Light each candle and let the aromas mingle for at least 30 minutes to create your new fragrance experience.

Dear Maven - Milder Scents?

Dear Maven,

Your candles are fabulous! I always look forward to burning them to freshen different areas of my home. I have, however, noticed that some candles do not seem to have as much fragrance as others. Sometimes I feel like I’m smelling the wax more than the scent and I’m tempted to add some of your Diffuser oil with a dropper to give the candle a fragrance boost. What do you suggest when I get a candle that seems to have limited fragrance?

Well, first let me say that flattery will get you everywhere. I like to think that I had a little something to do with your satisfaction with our candles, as I am always offering our R & D department my sage advice – sometimes solicited and frequently not.

Moving on to your question, my answer is best summed up in the old saying, ‘Patience is a virtue.’ When you receive a candle that does not seem to have a strong scent, the best recommendation is to put it away and smell it again the next morning to make sure your nose isn’t playing tricks on you. Personally, after a long day of latte runs to my local café, slathering myself with cosmetics, heading to the mall food court to grab a bite to eat, re-spritzing myself with my favorite body spray (Your Inspraytion™ Body Mist from our EMERGE™ collection, of course) and pumping gas (ick!), my nose understandably has an identity crisis on its hands and can’t smell the full bouquet of fragrance notes that may be present in one of Gold Canyon’s amazing candles. Bottom line: it’s a good idea to give your nose a break and check out that new candle a second time when you know your nose is fresh and hasn’t been assaulted by the variety of smells you’re likely to encounter throughout the course of your day.

If you have given your olfactory senses a break and are certain your new candle doesn’t smell like it should, please contact Gold Canyon and let us send you an exchange. Everyone here takes maintaining our reputation as “The World’s Finest”® quite seriously and we truly want you to be completely satisfied. Additionally, we may request that you return the candle to us so we can get to the bottom of it if there is a quality issue. Our goal is that every single candle produced be perfect every time.

One last note of expert advice, DO NOT use your Diffuser oil in your candle! This will eventually cause your wick to stop functioning correctly and your candle will not burn. For more information about the appropriate use of Gold Canyon Diffusers (and every other fabulous product we offer), consult the current Product Knowledge Guide at Essentials OnLine/Action/University/Product Knowledge Guide.

Dear Maven - Linen Spray

Dear Maven,

Is it safe to spray Gold Canyon’s Linen Scent on wet clothes before putting them in the dryer? What about ironing? Will it discolor the fabric? 

I’m no detective, but it sounds like you may have had a traumatic experience with applying another fabric ‘freshener’ that caused unpleasant side effects for your favorite cardigan in the past. Am I right?

Well I’ve been there, and I’ve got good news for you! Other than the facts that they smell like heaven and can be used in so many other ways, another amazing feature of our Linen Scents is that they should be safe to use on clothes before putting them in the dryer.

I’ll let you in on a little secret – I actually use the spray on both dry and wet clothing. If I’m in a pinch and a little behind on laundry (which is pretty much the norm for me), I particularly like to spray one of our wonderful Linen Scent fragrances on dry clothes and throw them in the dryer for a quick freshening to get smoke or cooking odors out quickly. However, because fabrics and dyes vary, please note that it is always prudent to test a small inconspicuous area of the clothing first. Better safe than sorry!

You can also spray your clothes and then iron, but again, since fabrics vary, it is highly recommended that you test a small area of the garment first. Another important tip is to use your Linen Scent only on washable fabrics – never on dry clean only clothing. Last of all, never put Linen Scent inside your iron, as this is not the intended use for your iron and could potentially cause its mechanics to deteriorate over time.

For complete information regarding Gold Canyon’s Linen Scent or any other fabulous Suddenly Scented^® products we have to offer, be sure to check out the Product Knowledge Guide at Essentials OnLine/Action/University/Product Knowledge Guide.

Dear Maven - New Scents?

Dear Maven, The Diffusers are such a wonderful product and the perfect gift for teachers, but as a Demonstrator I am always getting requests for scents that are not available in the Diffusers. When will Gold Canyon be coming out with more scents?

Ah, the one question I get over and over . . . “Why can’t I have [insert favorite scent here] in [insert product line here]?

Let’s address this now before it’s asked again. Oh wait, too late. I think that’s the ding of my inbox now as I type this.

Well, dear Demonstrators, I admire you for your persistence in trying to please your customers. After all, where would we be without persistent Demonstrators? However, I must explain the reasoning behind this mystery.

The reality is, it’s really not much of a mystery. Gold Canyon is known as “The World’s Finest” and this I KNOW you know. Well, because of this fact, we can’t just offer every fragrance in every product line and still meet our high standard of quality.

One thing you may not know is our R & D (Research and Development) department Coworkers are super perfectionists. When we hire for R & D, we actually look for this on their resumes! These highly trained scientists worthy of Gold Canyon aren’t exactly falling from the sky either. With the experts we do hire and their mission of providing “The World’s Finest”, they don’t exactly have extra time on their hands. Currently, only the best-performing fragrances are offered in Diffusers. But don’t worry—R & D is always developing and testing more fragrances that may be offered in the future!

As professor at GCU, I use Diffusers to keep my classroom from smelling stale. We have developed the Give Teacher an “A” Gift Giving set that is the perfect back-to-school gift for teacher of all class ages. It is flameless, comes with a cute ruler ribbon exclusive to the set and a full set of decals to ensure your Diffuser is always in season. And, since the fragrance lasts 3-5 months, you don’t have to worry about ordering a refill until winter break!

Bottom line: I know how you and your customers all love Gold Canyon fragrances so much and I really can’t blame you for that. So, I’m sure this won’t be the last time you or I hear this question, but maybe now you can explain things a little better. Perfection takes hard work people and no one would want their Sugar Cookie fragrance to be under par now would they? I didn’t think so!

Safari Scents

Show off your wild side with this trendy zebra-printed Pod Warmer. Plug it in, place a scent pod on top and enjoy the fragrance of a candle without the wick or flame. You can set it to turn off automatically after 4, 8 or 12 hours. After you switch it off, the scent pod hardens so it can be reused. When you want to switch scents, all you have to do is switch pods—no messy oils to clean up or wax to scrape off. $46.75 CDN

Dear Maven - Cutting Corners?

Dear Maven,

I recently went to the grocery store and was disappointed to see that my favorite ice cream has been shrunk down to a miniature sized container. It got me to thinking – what if Gold Canyon starts cutting corners to save a buck in this shaky economic climate? Should I be worried?

Oh, Honey. I can almost feel your disillusionment leaping at me off my computer screen. On those bad days when all we want to do is change into some giant sweatpants and have our way with a gallon of ice cream, the last thing we need is to see that someone’s trying to rip us off and charge the same (or even more!) for a lesser product.

Well rest assured that Gold Canyon is dedicated now more than ever to delivering “The World’s Finest”® products to our consumers and Demonstrators and always will be. Every component that goes into our products is selected because of its capacity to out-perform the competition at every turn.

Sure, it’s tedious to test 37 different wax and wick combinations only to toss them all and start from scratch, but at Gold Canyon, that’s what our Research and Development team does. It’s that tireless spirit that ensures that you and every one of your customers is pleased with the end result – a flawless product that you deserve!

So the next time you find yourself lying awake at night pondering which of your favorite products is going down the tubes next (“Will it be my lip gloss? What’s next? My wrinkle cream? Maybe my chai tea latte?”), just know that you can always count on Gold Canyon to maintain the same level of quality to which you’re accustomed – “The World’s Finest”.

Summer Catalogue Additions!

Summer Product Release Updates

POSTED MARCH 31, 2010

You asked for it, and we’re ready to launch some of the most highly requested and anticipated products! We are so excited to share the new summer products with you as you get ready for a sizzlin’ sales season. Here’s the scoop on Gold Canyon’s latest product release:

Summer 2010 Product Highlights

·          Pillar Series & Inspirations – select fragrances NOW available in Heritage^®! (p. 45)

o    Pillar Series & Inspirations from the Summer 2010 catalog are discontinued and available online while supplies last.

·          NEW! Summer Holiday/Occasion (pp. 51–56)

o    Unscented Bella^® & Tealights – create unscented ambience and décor with high quality white candles!

o    Wedding Candle! The lovely fragrance of Enchanting that comes with a wearable brooch.

o    Celebrate the 4^th of July with the fragrance of Red, White & Berry and the Liberty Lantern holder.

o    MyStyle – Love a fragrance, but the label doesn’t match your décor? Use MyStyle labels! 4 sets to choose from.

·          Iron Votive Centerpiece replacement glass! (p. 65)

·          NEW ScentMate™ Personal Fan Diffuser – A quiet, yet powerful fan that streams long-lasting fragrance into the air. (p. 9)

·          Scent Pods^® – 14 NEW fragrances, including top favorites like Essentially Soy Aromatherapy™ and EMERGE Burning Bright™! (p. 17)

·          Pod Warmers – 2 NEW designs, including a warmer to personalize by adding your picture to the frame! (p. 11)

·          EMERGE^® Stepping Out™ Foot Crème – New Packaging, Lower Price, More Ounces! Available to order June 1, 2010. (pg. 29)

·          Comforts of Home^® – Now shipping without the medallion as shown in the catalog. (p. 41)

·          Birthday Delights Gift Giving Set – Now priced at $25.99 US/$34.75 CDN; effective May 1, 2010. (p. 69)

·          Boutique Chic™ – Now priced at $29.50 CDN; effective May 1, 2010. (p. 35)

Book your party today to be one of the first to have these items!!!

Reflections in Decorating

Surprisingly, even something like concern over the economy has an effect on design trends. But it’s not what you may think. Most recently, people have been longing for and remembering the days of the past—heirloom colors and distressed finishes are now a very popular home décor trend.

The use of aged, heirloom colors and distressed finishes remind people of the past and they’re finding their way into home décor themes.

You can add small touches of aged and heirloom color finishes and feels to your home. Try these simple décor concepts:

• Change or repurpose old furniture instead of throwing it away. It may already look distressed, making it easier to get in line with this trend. If needed, use painting techniques or even try sanding away those old paint trends to create the look you want now.

• Find those old keepsakes and accent pieces you’ve stored away for safekeeping. Instead bring them out and display them proudly. Family heirlooms will always be in style!

• Live simply. Ironically, living simply is the current “trend” that was once a way of life. Get back to that place not only for your design wallet, but for the environment and our earth’s future.

• When you do decide to make new purchases, select the accent pieces that can be used in a variety of ways. This type of decor not only changes with time, but with your tastes as well.

• Check out Gold Canyon’s holders (pictured below) for seven versatile holders each with their own distinctive design, but the same quality rustic finish—perfect for your heirloom and distressed finished décor.

Spring Scents

Gold Canyon’s Spring Holiday line of candles has you covered for every holiday or just a spring scent to use all season. Each of the four candles is so giftable and fun—you can buy one of each and always have a gift on hand. Jelly Beans and Marshmallow Confections are perfect for your Easter basket. Spring Posies in a bright green jar is great for celebrating St. Patrick's Day.

Spring Posies (Green)
A bushel of fresh florals, light fruits and sandalwood brings the gift of spring to life!

Jelly Beans (Pink)
Sweet and irresistibly delectable, the fruity blend of strawberry, peach and pineapple together with creamy vanilla creates the wonderful goodness of this springtime treat.

Marshmallow Confections (Yellow)
Like the fluffy marshmallow chicks that are the must-have Easter treat, this fragrance is creamy whips of fluffy marshmallow infused with delectable spun sugar, a splash of fruity orange and tangy lemon zest.

Candy Hearts (Purple)
A tempting treat that includes hints of sweet strawberry, fluffy marshmallow, red raspberry and creamy vanilla scents.

Why buy Gold Canyon Candles - Part 2

5. Safety Wicks - Each Gold Canyon Candle comes with safety wicks. This means that when there is about 1/2" of wax left in the candle, the wick will not light or will extinguish if burning. An extra ounce of wax is poured into each candle to accommodate this feature.

6. 100% Edible - Edible??!! Yes, if your small child happened to decide to munch on a candle, the wax is 100% edible and non-toxic.

7. Outstanding Selection - During any given season, Gold Canyon features approximately 100 different fragrances in various categories. Our wide array of fragrances and types of candles ensures that everyone is able to find the perfect fragrance!

Why buy Gold Canyon Candles - Part 1

1. Incredible Fragrance and Outstanding Quality! - You will not find a stronger scented candle on the market today. Our candles are packed with as much aromatic fragrance as possible to give you a burning experience unlike any other!

2. Lead-free Double Wicks - In any Gold Canyon Candle larger than a 5oz, you will find double wicks. This allows your candle to liquefy and burn evenly the whole way across the top. No more pushing unburned wax down from the side of the jars!

3. 100% Fragrance!! - This means that our candles are as fragrant at the bottom as they are at the top. Every inch of our candle wax is fragranced.

4. Cool Burning Wax - If you are concerned about burning candles with small children around, don't be. Gold Canyon Candles contain cool wax which, if spilled on skin, will be warm but will not burn.

Why a Gold Canyon Candles Fundraiser?

Watch the posts for the next few days as I review the fundraiser program. This is information taken from our website.

Strong Fragrance. Strong, true-to-life fragrances. The fundraising rub-to-discover Seller Packet each seller will use provides an easy reference to the fragrances available for purchase.

Double Wicks. Double wicks ensure an evenly burning candle so there is no messy, residual wax left on the walls of the candle jar. Safety Features. Each candle wick is fitted with a safety collar, causing the candles to self-extinguish at the appropriate safety level. In addition, our unique cool wax formula is warm to the touch and will not burn the skin if a candle is accidentally bumped or turned over.

The Prayer Child Foundation. In addition to the organization you are supporting, you will also be supporting the Prayer Child Foundation, Gold Canyon's charity of choice.