Organic Soy Wax Candles - Why Soy Wax Cannot Be Organic

If a retailer is displaying the USDA Organic seal with a product (or candle), that product must be "100 percent organic.  If 95-99% of the ingredients are organic it may state the product is Organic, but cannot display the seal.

If you see soy candles that state they are "made with organic ingredients" the candle manufacturer better be adding 70% Organic Soybean Oil to the mixture, or enough Organic Soy oil and Organic Essential oils to add up to 70%.

70% organic ingredients are required to claim, "made with organic ingredients" So, adding 70% organic Soybean oil is highly unlikely and actually impossible, as you cannot use that much soy oil and come out with a solid soy wax candle. Salt and water are not included in the percentage required for Organic, but you never find those two ingredients in a soy candle.

Unfortunately, rules and laws are not always followed.

SO CAN SOY CANDLE WAX BE ORGANIC?

You can start with organic soybeans to make organic soy oil for soy wax, and due to the "process necessary" to turn that soy oil into soy wax [a solid form] it is no longer organic, and cannot be "certified" as Organic.  Soy wax candles cannot be certified organic.

If you see the statements, Organic Candles or Organic Soy Candles, ask the selling company to provide you with their Organic Certification, not for the soybean oil, but for the Soy Wax itself. Beeswax is the only candle wax that can be certified organic.

"Currently organic consumers, and producers of truthfully labeled organic personal care products, have no remedy under federal law with respect to these untruthful and misleading practices. They must look to state law remedies and/or efforts to shape alternative private industry standards". 
(source: http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_17595.cfm)

 

False labeling along with false marketing claims not only hurts consumers,
it does not support our organic farmers or the organic industry. It destroys it.