Wax Melts & Oil Burners
A candle burns once and it is gone. A 50g bar of wax melts breaks into six or seven pieces, each one good for several evenings in a £4.95 burner, which is why the running cost works out at about 11p an hour against 19p for a jar candle.
The burners here are glazed ceramic and take a standard tealight underneath. Fragrance oils are sold separately from £2.95, and the same burner takes either — melts in the dish dry, or a few drops of oil in water.
Everything arrives boxed with no prices inside, dispatched from Yorkshire in 1–2 days. UK delivery is £3.95, or free once the basket passes £30.
Choosing one
Start with what they already own. If a burner is already on the shelf, buy the wax: the lavender bar is £3.95 and breaks into six or seven pieces, and the Windermere box of eight at £12.95 covers a whole winter.
If there is no burner, the square Buddha burner at £4.95 is the least expensive way to start and takes both melts and oil. The plain white version costs the same and suits a room that is not decorated this way.
For someone who would rather not light anything at all, the amethyst diffusing crystals at £16.95 take a few drops of oil on the stones and need no heat or power at all. If you are weighing melts against candles on cost, we worked the numbers out.
If it is scent generally rather than melts specifically, home fragrance is the wider shelf, and candles covers the version with a flame. For a housewarming, the new home shelf pulls the same pieces together with the gift in mind.
