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✦ Behind the scenes ✦

Our Story & Craft.

From a small idea to a studio full of wax, clay, and love. Here is how everything gets made.

How it all started

Artisan House began with a simple desire: to make things that hold meaning. In a world of mass-produced goods, we wanted to create objects that feel personal, slow, and deeply intentional.

It started with a single melting pot and a few jars of soy wax in a small room in Varanasi. We spent months testing wicks, blending fragrances, and learning the delicate, sometimes stubborn temperament of natural wax.

Today, our studio has grown, but our process hasn't. We still pour every candle by hand, paint every magnet stroke by stroke, and wrap every box as if it were going to a dear friend.

Our Studio

The beginning.

✦ In the studio ✦

How it actually gets made

A Tuesday in the Artisan House studio. Wax at 62°C. Tea on the side.

We melt.

01

We melt.

soy wax at 62°C

We scent.

02

We scent.

fragrance oils, weighed twice

We pour.

03

We pour.

slow, patient, no bubbles

We wait.

04

We wait.

24 hours of silence

We trim.

05

We trim.

wicks to exactly 6mm

We wrap.

06

We wrap.

tissue, twine, a note

✦ What goes in ✦

Our ingredients list

We read the back of the label so you don't have to. Full transparency, always.

Soy wax

Soy wax

Indiana, USA

100% natural, GMO-free

Cotton wicks

Cotton wicks

Tamil Nadu

lead & zinc free

Fragrance oils

Fragrance oils

Grasse, France

IFRA certified, phthalate-free

Ceramic clay

Ceramic clay

Khurja, UP

food-safe, locally fired

Magnets

Magnets

Firozabad

hand-blown vessels

The art of candles

Candle-making is as much exact science as it is expressive art. It requires monitoring precise temperatures, calculating the perfect wick thickness for a vessel's diameter, and finding the exact golden ratio of fragrance oil to wax.

But beyond the science, it's about the mood it sets. A flickering flame and a carefully crafted scent can transform a room, ground your thoughts, and bring warmth to the quietest moments of your day. We obsess over the details so you can simply light the wick and breathe.

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