Eco-friendly candles for your home

All our signature candles are hand-poured, small batch, and produced by Emily, founder of Iris & Aura. You can buy with confidence knowing you are supporting a small family business, and buying an artisan, bespoke product that has less waste and less impact on the environment than large scale producers.

Our eco- and vegan-friendly candles allow you to create a home that promotes a sense of wellness. They are eco-friendly, low impact, ethical and best of all, safe for your health.

Pure Essential Oil candles: nature-derived

It’s hard to find a clean candle free from hidden chemicals. Wicks can contain heavy metals, even lead, and synthetic fragrances can cause reactions like asthma flare-ups, headache, nausea and more.

Most candles on the market contain these chemicals. There’s no obligation to disclose what’s inside. Even candles labelled as containing essential oils commonly include synthetic bases!

There’s no aromatherapy benefit from synthetic fragrances. If it’s not real lavender, it won’t have the same effect as an Essential Oil. Instead of creating the warm, welcoming, comfortable space you yearn for, instead, you’re stuck with unknown chemicals and potential impacts on your health.

At Iris & Aura we believe that everyone deserves to feel confident in the safety of what you bring into your home – especially products like candles that are designed to enter your airspace. Some chemicals used in commercial candles even have safety warnings like “Do not inhale” which is problematic for something being burnt and released into the air!

That’s why we hand-craft our candles with only all natural ingredients, and fragrance with 100% Pure Essential Oils.

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Essential Oil Candles

About Emily: owner of Iris & Aura

On moving to Australia, I wanted a candle that was made from natural ingredients, used only pure essential oils for fragrance, and with botanical, earthy scents.

Synthetic-fragranced candles irritated my body, causing headaches and itchy eyes – and the chemical fragrances were often too strong, overpoweringly sweet and being synthetic did not achieve the aromatherapy benefits I craved.

I couldn’t find what I was looking for. I didn’t want my candles to contain the lead or other metals that are commonly found in the wicks of mass-produced candles, nor use paraffin wax (a chemical derived from the petroleum industry).

That’s why I started making my own candles: using only pure cotton eco wicks, a blend of coconut wax (the purest, most eco-friendly wax on the market) with soy wax (for stability in Australia’s warm climate), and pure essential oils.

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Slow Living with Iris & Aura

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Over 8000 happy customers

I have been making candles for the Sunshine Coast community and beyond since 2019 and have crafted over 8,000 candles for my customers. My process has been carefully refined for a shelf-stable, evenly-blended candle that will deliver a consistent slow burn from start to finish for your home.

Find Iris & Aura in person at markets across the Sunshine Coast:

  • Eumundi Markets – every Wednesday.
  • Pomona Markets – most Saturdays.
  • Peregian Beach Markets – 1st and 3rd Sunday of the month.
  • Witta Markets – 3rd Saturday of the month.

For in-store stockist enquiries, get in touch. We'd love to bring the benefits of Iris & Aura to your customers.

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Chemical-free, 100% Pure Essential Oil candles with clean, botanical scents. At Iris & Aura we craft eco-conscious, aromatherapy-inspired candles with all natural ingredients, so you can create a home that supports wellness and slow living. Shop the Iris & Aura range today.

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Try our Pure Essential Oil candles

Not sure what fragrance blend is perfect for your home? Coming soon is our new Travel Trio: three blends in one beautiful pack. Join our Slow Living newsletter to be notified when it launches.

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How to choose your Essential Oil candle

How to choose the perfect eco-candle for your home:

Step 1: Choose your fragrance. Do you prefer something earthy, fresh or floral? How do you want to feel? All Iris & Aura candles use only Pure Essential Oils for blends. Do you want to feel calm, relaxed, focused, energised or grounded?

Step 2. Choose whether you will buy you candles as needed, or using our handy subscription service. Save up to 10% off when you order your favourite candle on subscription, and relax knowing you’ll never run out. We also sell refills for your candle, as we believe in being eco-friendly in all our practices, and our candle vessels are designed to be reused.

Step 3. Your Candle Care guide will arrive with your candle, to help you get the most out of your Iris & Aura candle. Lost your guide? Get the details on how to care for your candle here.

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Our eco-friendly guarantee

Iris & Aura candles are guaranteed to contain no nasties: we use only Pure Essential Oils (no synthetic fragrances or bases), a blend of coconut wax and soy wax (no paraffin / petroleum-based waxes), and pure cotton eco-wicks (no heavy metals or mercury).

All our candles come in a reusable jar that is designed to be refilled. You can buy a refill of your favourite candle in our shop.

Not sure what fragrance is right for you? If you’re a Sunshine Coast local, then come along and find us at a local market to try before you buy. Or, if you can’t decide your favourite, try our Travel Trio! (Coming soon!) Select your three favourite fragrances, or try a new one, no risk, with our special price.

All our candles are available on subscription, so you never run out of your favourite candles. For all the details on how our subscription service can save you money, see our Subscription Policy.

We want you to be happy with your candle purchase. Fragrances are a personal preference and we cannot exchange or refund for change of mind. If your candle arrives damaged or has a fault, we will refund or exchange in accordance with our Refund Policy.

At Iris & Aura we are very conscious of safety and that’s why we use only nature-derived ingredients in our candles, free from synthetic chemicals.

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