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Why Choose Soy?
What is soy wax?
Soy wax is a vegetable wax made from the oil of soybeans. After harvesting, the soybeans are cleaned, cracked, dye-hulled and rolled into flakes. The oil is then extracted from the flakes and hydrogenated. This process dramatically alters the melting point of the oil, making it solid at room temperature. The left over bean husks are commonly used for animal feed. The U.S. grows the vast majority of the world's soybeans, primarily in Illinois, Iowa and Indiana.
How is it used?
Candle makers use soy wax in many different ways. It can be used straight as in our Soy wax, blended with other natural oils, or mixed with paraffin to form a Para-soy blended wax.
The benefits?
One of the greatest advantage of pure soy wax is that it is completely renewable! While the global reserves of oil shrink and paraffin prices increase, the only limit to the supply of soy is how much we choose to grow.
In addition to sustainability, a well-made soy candle will burn cleanly and slowly, much to the delight of our customers. The performance and beauty of pure soy candles speak for themselves. And when no dyes are added our soy candles can be used as a wonderful moisturizing lotion for hands, feet and cuticles, giving your customers added value for their purchase.
Soy wax is a vegetable wax made from the oil of soybeans. After harvesting, the soybeans are cleaned, cracked, dye-hulled and rolled into flakes. The oil is then extracted from the flakes and hydrogenated. This process dramatically alters the melting point of the oil, making it solid at room temperature. The left over bean husks are commonly used for animal feed. The U.S. grows the vast majority of the world's soybeans, primarily in Illinois, Iowa and Indiana.
How is it used?
Candle makers use soy wax in many different ways. It can be used straight as in our Soy wax, blended with other natural oils, or mixed with paraffin to form a Para-soy blended wax.
The benefits?
One of the greatest advantage of pure soy wax is that it is completely renewable! While the global reserves of oil shrink and paraffin prices increase, the only limit to the supply of soy is how much we choose to grow.
In addition to sustainability, a well-made soy candle will burn cleanly and slowly, much to the delight of our customers. The performance and beauty of pure soy candles speak for themselves. And when no dyes are added our soy candles can be used as a wonderful moisturizing lotion for hands, feet and cuticles, giving your customers added value for their purchase.
DID YOU KNOW?
The production and burning of soy candles can greatly benefit the American agricultural economy? If soy wax replaced common paraffin wax, an estimated 60 million pounds of soybeans would be required for annual candle production!
PURE SOY WAX
Made from 100% soybean wax
Does not emit toxins while burning
Biodegradable
Water-soluble
Burns Cooler & Slower
Supports Our Farmers and US economic growth
Made from 100% soybean wax
Does not emit toxins while burning
Biodegradable
Water-soluble
Burns Cooler & Slower
Supports Our Farmers and US economic growth
SACRED GRAIN
Soybeans were first cultivated 5,000 years ago in Asia. The ancient Chinese considered them one of the five sacred grains needed to sustain life (rice, wheat, barley, and millet are the others).
In 1765 a sailor named Samuel Brown came back from china with a sack of soybean seeds. He gave them to Henry Yonge, the surveyor-general of Georgia, who planted them with phenomenal success, reaping three crops in a single growing season. Bowen harvested the beans and invented a process for making soy noodles. King George III awarded Bowen a patent and a medal from the Society of Arts, Manufacturers, and Commerce. When Bowen died in 1777, most Western interest in the soybean died with him.
A SACK OF SEEDS
In 1851 a Japanese junk foundered off the coast of Japan, and a ship called the Auckland, bound for San Fransisco, rescued the stranded sailors. But California port authorities wouldn't allow the Japanese sailors off the ship for fear they would spread disease. By coincidence, Dr. Benjamin Edwards was waiting for a ship to take him back to his home in Illinois. He examined the Japanese sailors and pronounced them healthy, and they gave him a thank you gift: A package of soybeans. Edwards took the beans to Illinois and gave them to a local horticulturist named John Lea, who planted them. They grew so well that Lea began passing seeds to other people, who in turn grew them and passed the seeds along to others.
It wasn't long before American farmers learned the value of soybeans. Livestock thrived on nearly all parts of the soybean plant. And by the late 1890s, Western scientist began to make new discoveries. They found that soybean plants actually improve the quality of the soil they grow in by taking nitrogen from the atmosphere and converting it into a form that enriches the dirt. All plants need nitrogen to grow, but few plants can get it from the air.
PARAFFIN WAX
Made from petroleum by-products
Emit 11 known toxins while burning
Emit large amounts of soot
Non-biodegradable
Not water-soluble
Burns hotter and faster
Non -renewable resource
Creates further dependence on foreign oil.
Made from petroleum by-products
Emit 11 known toxins while burning
Emit large amounts of soot
Non-biodegradable
Not water-soluble
Burns hotter and faster
Non -renewable resource
Creates further dependence on foreign oil.
SOYBEANS TODAY
- In 1924 the United States produced five million bushels of soybeans. Today it's up to 2.6 billion per year, making soybeans the nations third biggest crop (following corn and wheat).
- Soybeans are now grown on more than 73 million acres - An area about the size of Arizona.
- Soybeans contain 40% protein, compared to only 18% protein in beef. Two pounds of soy flower contains about the same amount of protein as five pounds of meat.
- Soybeans contain seven of the eight amino acids essential for human health.
