Life in the 18th Century:  Making Candles
Life in the 18th Century:  Making Candles
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Tallow candles: some of the earliest lighting to date! 🕯️This home is one you won't want to miss next year in an upcoming issue of A Primitive Place magazine! 🤩 | A Primitive Place Magazine
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Early candles were far from the clean-burning versions we know. In medieval Europe, most people used tallow candles made from animal fat. These produced a smoky, sputtering flame and a distinctly unpleasant odor, limiting their use in close quarters. Wealthier households and churches preferred beeswax candles, which burned cleaner and brighter but were much more expensive. The 19th century brought two major changes: stearin wax made candles harder, and Joseph Morgan’s invention of a candle-moldi
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The History of Candles The evolution of the candle was a story of materials. For centuries, most Europeans relied on tallow—rendered animal fat—which produced a smoky, foul-smelling light. Only religious institutions and the very wealthy could afford clean-burning, sweet-smelling beeswax candles. Early American colonists discovered that boiling bayberries yielded a fragrant wax, but the process was incredibly difficult and labor-intensive. (candles.org) A significant improvement came from the wh
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