Soy Candles 大豆洋燭
What are Soy Candles?
Soy Candles are made with an entirely natural based wax that is environmentally friendly and healthy for your home and family. Soy wax is a hydrogenated form of soybean oil and is bio-degradable, non-toxic, sustainable and renewable.
Soy wax is 100% natural and recyclable. It has been highly appreciated by the environmentalists and worldwide in the past 20 years.
Natural Soy Candles are good for the atmosphere
Soy candles produce about 90% less soot than other waxes, it does not increase the Co2 level in the atmosphere.
Natural Soy Candles are easy to clean
Soy wax spills can easily be cleaned up with hot soapy water.
Natural Soy Candles are long lasting and burns cool
Typically, soy wax is softer than paraffin wax due to its lower melting temperature, therefore soy candles offer a longer-lasting and cooler burn.
To create a sustainable future, saving energy and using eco-friendly products are the only way for a better future.
WWF (HK) Earth Hour takes place on 31st March 2012 at 8.30 pm, asking households and businesses to turn off their non-essential lights for one hour. If you would like to support this event, turn off your non-essential lights and light a natural eco-soy wax candle that evening.
For more information of Earth Hour 2012, please visit http://apps.wwf.org.hk/earthhour/eng/index.html
For more information on Kerasoy’s natural eco-soy wax candles, please visit www.candles.asia or www.kerasoy.com
Join Earth Hour on 31st March 2012 at 8.30pm and watch the candle lights light up to remind us how to reach for a better future!
Ginger Lily is a tropical plant that originates from China, Taiwan, Myanmar and India and was occasionally naturalized in eastern Australia, southern Africa and Americas.
It is also the national flower of Cuba, known as “Mariposa Blanca” or ‘Butterfly Jasmine’. An endemic jasmine species used by Cuban women in the war of independence to pass messages on the battlefields. It symbolizes purity, rebelliousness and independence. In Spanish colonial time, women used to adorn themselves with these flowers due to its beautiful fragrance. Another name to describe Ginger Lily is ‘Butterfly Flower’, as it looks similar to a flying butterfly.
Ginger Lily has a fresh, intense and romantic sweet fragrance, and is easy to grow and propagate. Put plants in your home to enjoy this heaven-like floral scent. However, fresh Ginger Lily flowers may attract moths at night.
If you cannot get hold of the plant but would like to enjoy this floral fragrance, you may consider burning Ginger Lily scented candles or fragrance oils in your home or try diffusing the scent using a reed diffuser. This exquisite fragrance will transcend any room into a heavenly oriental garden.
The Candle Company has a range of Ginger Lily scented, home fragrance products to choose from. Visit, www.candles.asia
Love Symbols 愛的符號
Valentine’s day is approaching, did you know there are different ‘love’ symbols around the world that have been used historical and most, still used today?
Chinese Character “Love 愛”
The Chinese Character “Love 愛” has a Chinese character “Heart 心” in it and literally means you need to love someone with your heart and soul.
Sachet
During the Chinese Qing Dynasty, a cloth sachet was given as a token of love. These were usually hand-made by the girls for their prospective lovers. The sachet was filled with herbs, potpourri or some aromatic ingredients. They would also stitch some patterns on the sachet, such as pair of mandarin ducks, birds butterflies or fish which in Chinese, are symbols for couples or lovers. Other patterns like peony or lotus symbolized women and pine symbolized longevity. Later on, people wore the sachets during the dragon boat festival, as they believed they could keep evils away and welcome good fortune.
Others countries:
Celtic Love Knot (Trinity Knot)
The Celtic love knot first appeared in the 3rd or 4th centuries AD of Roman Empire and has no end or beginning, it represents the eternity of love.
Welsh Lovespoon
The Welsh lovespoon is made by wood and carved with different symbols. Traditionally, the Welsh lovespoon was made by men as a love token to the women they love. If a woman kept the lovespoon, it means she has accepted his love, if she sends it back, it means she has turned it down.
The meaning of different elements of the lovespoon:
Heart represents Love, Flowers represents Affection, Knot represents eternity,Bell represents Wedding, Cross represents Faith or Marriage, Horseshoe represents Good Luck and Stork represents New Born.
Hebrew Letters
Ahava is made up of Hebrew letters and is a most commonly used term for both interpersonal love and love between God and God’s creations. The above picture shows The Love sculpture (spelling Ahava) made by Robert Indiana in 1977.
Sign Language
For those who are shy to say ‘I love you!’, you could follow the American Sign Language for “I love you!”, it is a combination of three hand shapes: I, L, Y. If this fails, make a heart shape symbol with two hands and the message will definitely be understood!
“I love you” in some written languages
In Celtic Letter: 
In Traditional Chinese :我愛你
In Simplified Chinese: 我爱你
In Dutch: Ik hou van jou
In French: Je t’aime
In Japanese: 愛している
In Korean: 사랑해
In German: Ich liebe dich
In Greek: σας αγαπώ
In Italian: Ti amo
In Indonesian: Aku cinta padamu
In Spanish: Te quiero, Te Amo
In Russian: я люблю тебя
In Romanian: Te iubesc
In Turkish: Seni seviyorum
In Swedish: Jag älskar dig
In Norwegian: Jeg elsker deg
In Malay: Saya cinta awak
In Filipino: Mahal kita
Below is a Valentine’s gift idea on a Chinese character for love. The Candle Company’s 3D Chinese Character candle ‘Love’ (oi in Cantonese) is a meaningful gift to offer your loved one. Scented with Champagne Rose, this is a soft & sweet scent that denotes pure luxury.
Happy Valentine’s day!
Kung Hei Fat Choy! 恭喜發財!
Kung Hei Fat Choy! We wish you all a lucky year of the dragon!
恭喜發財! 祝大家有個幸運的龍年!
Press Coverage 傳媒報導
Some recent press coverage of our products!
一些關於我們產品的傳媒報導。
1/ The Standard (15 Dec 2011) – By Ivy Ong-Wood
Smells like Christmas spirit
Cinnamon Buns, Mulled Wine, pine trees…..that’s what Christmas should smell of. Here’s a shortcut: home scents from The Candle Company, which has been in Hong Kong since 2000.
The Christmas bear set ($98) comes with a choice of three scented tin candles while the gift set ($435) has two candles and a Festive Spices reed diffuser. Or light a simple Christmas candle in various scents and sizes (From $40)
2/ South China Morning Post Christmas Issue (Dec 2011)
3/ Elle.com.hk –By Scarlett Woo
聖誕之選:香氣燭光 營造節日氣氛
http://www.elle.com.hk/lifestyle/news/The_Candle_Company_lifestyle_news
想為屋企增添聖誕氣氛，除了買棵聖誕樹作裝飾之外，亦可考慮挑選心水的香薰洋燭，打造一個充滿香氣和燭光的浪漫聖誕夜。
本地香薰洋燭品牌The Candle Company 最近推出了一系列聖誕香薰產品，當中最受歡迎的是香薰洋燭，並有Cinnamon Bun、Evergreen、 True Pumpkin、Cinnamon、 Mulled Wine 及Pine Needles六種香味選擇。編輯推介Evergreen 及Pine Needle 這兩種味道，因為它們與聖誕樹的氣味十分相似，燃點後能令家居瞬間充滿聖誕樹的香氣。
聖誕夜想在家裡吃浪漫燭光晚餐，但又怕香薰味道與食物不相協調的話，則可選擇無味的裝飾洋燭，燃點後除了增添浪漫氣氛外，亦可在寒冷夜裡增添溫暖感。
地址: 中環擺花街11號
查詢: 2545 0099
網上訂購: www.candles.asia
Others Articles 其他報導 :
Headline Daily 頭條日報
http://www.hkheadline.com/home/home_content.asp?contid=113799&srctype=g
Japan Brochure 日本傳媒報導
http://d-stand.jtb.co.jp/fdata/book23518/index.html
The List Christmas Walk 2011
The Candle Company is participating in The List Christmas Walk next week on Weds Dec 7th. There will be wine, discounts and lucky draw on the night.
We have reserved 8 free tickets (Worth $100/each) for our fans.
To win, you can either drop your business card in our shop or just leave us a comment on our facebook
“Christmas shopping has never been this fun!”.
Lucky draw winners will be announced on 6th Dec.
Date: 7th Dec, 2011 (Wed)
Time: 6.00pm to 10.30 pm
The Candle Company將參與下星期三(12月7日) 舉行的The List Christmas Walk。屆時將會有免費紅白酒供應, 顧客亦可享產品折扣優惠及參與抽獎。
我們現送出8張活動門券（每張價值100元），各粉絲只需將你的名片投入擺花街的抽獎箱內或只需在The Candle Company的facebook 專頁留下“Christmas shopping has never been this fun!” 即可參予是次活動。得獎名單將於12月6日公佈。
日期: 12月7日(星期三)
時間: 下午6時至晚上10時半
活動詳情可參閱……
http://asia-city.com/thechristmaslist/index.html
Each year around the world, there are many types of women’s day events in order to mark the economic, political and social achievements of women, such as International women’s day which is held on 8 March every year. In Hong Kong, events for women are rare so for the month of October, The Candle Company has dedicated 6 of our best-selling fragrances to highlight some of the positive qualities of women in celebration of Women’s Month.The positive qualities of women are…Sensual, Loving, Caring, Understanding, Graceful and Giving which we can all identify with in the past and present (women) role models.
During October, get 10% off on our 6 promotional fragrances, we will also donate 10% of sales to The Women’s Foundation. The 6 fragrances are: French Vanilla (Caring), Paradise Garden (Understanding), Champagne Rose (Sensual), French Lavender (Graceful), Rose (Loving), Pink Grapefruit (Giving). For more details, please visit www.candles.asia.
每年在世界各地均有不同的活動來表揚女性在經濟上、政治上或社會上的成就,如每年三月八日的國際婦女節。而在香港表揚女性的活動是較少的,所以The Candle Company希望能以六款不同的香味產品來代表六項不同的女性優點。這些優點是關懷、理解、感性、優雅、愛和無私奉獻。
而在是次活動期間該六款香味產品的10%的收益將捐贈予婦女基金會作慈善用途。而顧客購買此六款香味產品亦可享有10%的優惠折扣, 香味包括法國香草 (關懷)、天堂花園 (理解)、香檳玫瑰 (感性)、法國薰衣草 (優雅)、玫瑰 (愛) 及粉紅柚子 (無私奉獻)。詳情可參閱我們的網頁www.candles.asia
SCMP Wedding Favours Article 南華早報之訪問
A night of free summer cocktails from VnC, discover The Candle Company’s new products and fragrances and to mark our new shop front!
1st Prize: A bottle of Veuve Cliquot Champagne and 2 home fragrance gift sets (worth HK$1200).
2nd prize: 6 bottles (1 Litre) of assorted VnC Cocktails and a home fragrance gift set (worth HK$1000)
3rd Prize: 6 bottles (200ml) of assorted VnC Cocktails and $200 The Candle Company Gift vouchers (worth HK$350)
4th Prize: 6 bottles (200ml) of assorted VnC Cocktails and $100 The Candle Company Gift Voucher (worth HK$250)
For our facebook fans, we do have a small surprise for you! Show us your “check-in” page on your facebook (on the evening, between 6 pm to 11 pm) and receive a surprise gift!
We look forward to seeing you and your friends on the night!
From all at The Candle Company.
誠邀各位於7月14日晚上6時至11時蒞臨中環擺花街之門市，與我們一同享用VNC夏日雞尾酒及先暏我們新推出的產品與店舖裝潢後的新面貌。
屆時各位顧客將可享產品折扣優惠及有機會贏取豐富禮品。
頭獎: 一支 Veuve Cliquot Champagne及兩份家居香味禮盒，總值一千二百元 。
二獎: 六支一公升裝VnC雞尾酒及一份家居香味禮盒，總值一千元 。
三獎: 六支兩百毫升裝VnC雞尾酒及兩百元The Candle Company 禮券，總值三百五十元 。
四獎: 六支兩百毫升裝的VnC雞尾酒及一百元The Candle Company 禮券，總值二百五十元 。
而facebook 的粉絲們，我們亦為你準備了一份小驚喜。粉絲們只需在活動當日(下午六時至十一時)在我們的店內’打卡’，然後出示頁面予店鋪職員便可獲小禮品一份。
我們熱切期待著你與你的朋友一同到來!
The Candle Company 全體職員敬上
Reed Diffuser Refills 籐枝香薰之補充裝
We are now selling refills for our range of reed diffusers. No need to throw away our bottles, just buy a refill and top it up.
我們的籐枝香薰已逐漸加入補充裝。顧客只需要將補充裝之籐枝香薰加入香薰瓶內便可,無需將瓶子丟棄。
