A Candlemaking Experience

[Music] women Labs we are a zero waste and science-based candle and Selter lab it actually has a pretty funny origin we attempted to make candles for our moms for Mother's Day and it was just a really fun enjoyable process and we think it's a really cool and interesting thing to share with everyone we decided to order a few more candles so studying our own ingredients in our kitchen and while we were interested in making our own candles we were more interested in seeing what other people could come up with so we thought that if we could bring those materials to the people and give them the basic instructions on candle making that they could come up with their very own candle and also walk away with some memories that are sustainable for them Lumen is the unit measurement for light Labs of course attributes to the chemistry and scientific based nature of our store I have a degree in chemical engineering obviously there's a lot of different components where science comes in and the beakers we serve our selters in in the separatory phones that we use for our fragrance oils and our graduated cylinders that we use to help measure their actual fragrance Halls as well the first step is making your reservation and how many candles you'd like to make because the options are really Limitless during your 90-minute experience we pick out our candle jars together as a group our sense as a group we decided to name all of our and since after Philadelphia neighborhoods we even have some dyes that you can mix or Match Into Your Candle so you really walk away with something that is completely your own it's just a way to talk to your neighbors and your community a little more [Music] our past just they write down their recipes in our recipe book we just thought it was a great way to see the creativity of everyone in a documented form and we've evolved it into this lab log that's now hanging on our wall and our guests can add their own recipes too I think the best part about Lumen is that it's a one-of-a-kind experience for each reservation at Lumen Labs we also plant a tree so the tree will be planted in our Lumen Labs Forest we've been partnering with conservative national forests in Thailand to make that happen right now our forest has about 1 000 trees in it recently we started adopting our very own trees back for our customers so they can even watch their trees grow in real time and see exactly how much carbon you've also sequestered in it so you really get a full eco-friendly experience at lemon Labs we picked out our candle jars we picked out our scents and mixed them all together pour the wax in and they came out great this was a gift for my mom making our own little candles we picked out our own scents we made little seltzers which was cute and we just had the best time this is my first time ever making a candle and it was an amazing experience it was a lot of fun and I feel like it's something anybody can do which makes it an even better experience for everyone so thank you Linden lab it's been kind of incredible just the journey we've been on we've had over 2 000 guests come in through our door and make their own candles it's been really rewarding just to see the receptiveness of everyone to all of our efforts