Sustainably sourced soy candles.

Our Story

Candles fill our homes with amazing fragrances, light, decoration, warmth, and love. Container candles, often housed in glassware or ceramics, are a wildly popular way to bring these elements into your space.

I started buying candles steadily towards the end of my college career, and strongly disliked the strain on my wallet. As an Environmental Science major, I also disliked the waste I saw post-burn; beautiful, delicate glass containers, and a bunch of fragrant wax.

Thus began a scentful, enjoyable hobby. Using my grandma’s old double boiler and some donated wax, I experimented in making my own candles.

In the year 2017, there was a significant reduction in the availability of glass recycling in my area. Glass is 100% recyclable, but in 2017, only about 26% of the 11.4 million tons of glass produced in the US was recycled (found here).

Being an avid queso and salsa consumer, I hated to throw away perfectly good glass containers just because recycling wasn’t conveniently available to me. So I threw the glass in a cupboard and forgot about it, hoping one day I’d find a use for them.

When the COVID-19 Pandemic of 2020 forced me to go into lockdown and subsequently lose my main source of employment, I suddenly had a great use for those old jars!

I decided to turn this forgotten glass into a sustainable substitute for glass container candles.

I founded Forgotten Glass Candle Company to be a sustainable, more environmentally friendly alternative to doing something I loved so dearly. Every purchase prolongs the lifetime of glassware that would otherwise end up in a landfill.

Make your next purchase unforgettable at the Forgotten Glass Candle Company.

~Catherine G.