Essential oils — or nothing added.
Lavender, Eucalyptus, and seasonal Pure releases use pure essential oils. Pure Honey leaves the beeswax unscented.
Explore Pure →Our story
She didn’t start with a candle company.
She started with a problem.
Long before Solstice Naturals existed, Marisa Bello was already the person reading the ingredient list instead of the claims on the front. Candles became the category she couldn’t make sense of — so she started making her own.
How it started
01A decade of reading labels before there was a candle.
Marisa had spent years paying close attention to what came into her home. Around the time she became a mother, that attention extended to what was in the air too. Candles were the exception she kept noticing: products built around atmosphere, but often with very little ingredient information attached to them.
She started making candles for her own home, not as a business. Friends and visitors noticed the quality of the light, the character of the scent, and the material itself. They started asking for one. Solstice Naturals grew from that simple premise: if the product can be more transparent, the customer shouldn’t have to guess.
Every candle begins the same way: with a decision about what belongs in it.
The material
Raw beeswax first.
Everything else has to earn its place.
Solstice uses 100% raw American beeswax as the base of every candle. The wax arrives with its natural golden color and characteristic beeswax aroma intact, then the scent approach changes by collection.
For fragrance that needs more layers.
Artisan uses carefully selected fragrance oils or fragrance and essential-oil blends for scent profiles essential oils alone can’t create.
Explore Artisan →The scent source is disclosed every time.
Each product page identifies the wax, wick, scent source, formula, and complete ingredient statement rather than hiding them inside marketing language.
Ingredient standard →
How every candle is made
The same hands.
The same batch size.
Every time.
The studio is in Gainesville, Georgia. Wax arrives in blocks, is melted at controlled temperatures, and is poured by hand into each vessel. There is no production line. Every wick is hand-set, and every candle is finished and labeled by Marisa.
Small batches make the work easier to inspect directly. The person responsible for the product stays close to every step of it.
- Batch
- Small-batch, hand-poured
- Wick
- Lead-free cotton, hand-set
- Cure
- 24–48 hours before packaging
- Made in
- Gainesville, Georgia, USA
What Solstice is building
“A brand that stays honest and grows only as fast as the quality of each candle allows.”
Solstice is built around a simple idea: transparency and beauty should reinforce each other. The more clearly a candle can explain what it is made from, how it is scented, and who made it, the better the product becomes.
From the studio to your home