What are massage candles? If you're not familiar with them, you're not alone. First appearing on the market this year, they are just now starting to gain a market presence in salons and spas, as unique corporate gifts as well as that exclusive gift for any man or woman. Whereas candles were once simply a functional way to light the dark, candles are now most commonly purchased to scent homes or to add a romantic or relaxing ambiance. Massage candles are a new variety of candle serving several simultaneous functions.

While they light a room, provide a delightful ambiance, and scent the immediate area with subtle fragrance, massage candles also contain cosmetic ingredients that make them an excellent body moisturizer offering anti-aging benefits and massage oil alternative. Because of their unique ingredients, a true massage candle will melt at just over body temperature. Much like a hot bath, they are comfortably warm, but not hot.

How to use your Spa-Valous Candle

STEP 1
After choosing your Spa-Valous™ Body Candle relating to your choice of colour from the seven colours of the chakra's you can enjoy an aroma therapeutic bath experience. Read the insert in the box before use.
Trim wick to 5mm before lighting the candle.

STEP 2
Once lit allow candle to burn for approximately 20 minutes or until a full melt pool has been achieved.
Did you know candle wax possesses a kind of ‘memory’? From the first time the candle burns and the wax becomes liquid, the wax will tend to repeat this melt pattern each time the candle is lit. Improper burning can lead to puddling in the center while leaving unsightly ridges along the edges of the container.  Therefore, in order to help ensure even burning in a container candle, safely allow the melt pool to expand evenly across the candle surface before extinguishing it. (Keep your candle out of a draft or breeze this will help ensure even melting across the surface.) This method will help your candle burn more evenly across the surface the next time it is lit.

STEP 3
Once melted, Soy wax tends toward an irregular surface, producing small bumps and formations and even a white patina. This is quite natural and doesn't indicate a defect, nor does it affect the quality of your candle in any way.
Allow the candle to burn for at least 20 minutes in order to form a melt pool while you lie and relax in the aromatic flavours of the essential oils and body safe fragrances used to fragrance the candles. These fragrances are chosen according to their related chakra.
Once out of the bath. Place your finger into the melt pool, it will only be 2 degrees hotter than your body temperature and therefore the oil will be warm not hot. Push the bottom of the wick into the oil in order to extinguish the flame. Do not blow the flame out as you don’t want to give off any white soot.

STEP 4
Once the flame is out the soy candle can be used as a luxurious body lotion or massage medium. Make sure that the body is completely dry before applying the lotion.  Massage the lotion well into the skin. Spa-Valous™ is the candle that you wear.

SPA-VALOUS™ Flamess Eco-Baby Massage Candle

We take pride in providing products that are eco-friendly and natural, derived from renewable resources, using Mother Nature’s finest ingredients.
Eco-Baby Candles melt at only 2º above normal body temperature. Because of the low melting temperature, you can pour the 100% WAX FREE candle on your baby’s skin to use as a moisturizer for the body and massage oil. They are also great smelling aromatherapy candles, making this a truly unique product.

Direction for use: Place the Spa-Valous™ Eco-friendly Baby Candle in a jug of boiling water for 5-10 minutes. Melt the ingredients. You can begin using the oil as a daily moisturizer or deep penetrating massage oil. Dip finger in the liquid wax and apply directly to the area needed, leaving skin smooth, soft and moisturized.

Baby Massage
Parents don’t need to be taught how to touch and hold their baby. However, there is a rhyme and reason for the steps to follow in new born massage. Did you know that a newborn can receive a massage? It is instinctual that we nurture. When our children are hurt… we hold them and when they have an accomplishment to share.. we hug them. Healthy positive touch in a family promotes a life time bond.

Massage

• Stimulates the nervous system through the skin which may help to improve muscle tone, coordination and brain functioning.
• Helps the newborn to grow and develop better due to improved rest, digestion and circulation.
• Promotes increased birth weight for preemies.
• Promotes better sleeping patterns.
• The immune system is stimulated by only 5 minutes massage a day.
• The baby is receiving special care from its caregiver, this promotes bonding, creates positive self esteem and a feeling of well being for the baby and you!

Spa-valous™ eco-baby soy massage candles have a beautifully fresh, clean scent. Wonderfully soft and powdery, like you just powdered a freshly bathed baby!

Infant Massage

Infant massage is a wonderful skill to learn. You want to connect with your baby in the most natural way possible. Touch is an excellent way to bond and infant massage allows you to build a bond in the most gentle, soothing way. Infant massage has many benefits to both you and your baby. Besides encouraging important bonds to form between you and your child massage helps your baby relax, build trust, and become healthier.

Getting Started with Infant Massage
Before you get started with your baby prepare the area you will give the massage. You want to be sure it is completely comfortable and relaxing for baby and for you.

Deciding where to give an infant massage
Select a soft area for your baby. This could be on your bed (put yourself between your baby and the edge) or it could be on the floor. Try some soft blankets or a sheepskin on the floor. If it hurts your back to be on the floor you might try creating a soft surface for your baby on a counter. Then you can stand beside your baby. Or try a low counter and pull up a chair for yourself. As always, be very cautious because babies are wiggly!
You will probably want to place an extra washable blanket over the surface you are working on. This will protect the surface from any oil that may rub off your baby and your hands. If you choose to massage baby diaper-less it will also protect from accidents.

Temperature and Lighting
Make sure that the room you're giving the infant massage in is warm. Your baby will be undressed down to the diaper or completely naked. You want to make sure that he is warm enough. Infants and young children are not as good at regulating their body temperature as adults are. Newborns and premature infants have an especially hard time regulating body temperature and need you to be sure they are warm enough.
If you feel like your baby is getting cold cover the areas you're not massaging, leave a cap on baby's head, or pick up and cuddle your little one skin to skin for a few minutes. Try to make the lighting low. Bright lights will irritate your baby's eyes. Muted daylight is wonderful. At night you might try a low lamp.

Why Choose Spa-Valous™ Eco-Baby Soy Massage Candles
When you give an infant massage you'll want to rub a little oil onto your hands. Do not use "baby oil." Baby oils are usually mineral based oil that actually rob your baby's skin of moisture and clog pores. Use plant-based oil. Spa-Valous Eco-Baby Massage Candles have a correct blend of plant oils such as Soy Oil, Shea Butter and Coconut Oil which are all safe for you and your baby.

You and Baby - Giving the Infant Massage
Undress your baby to the diaper, or take off the diaper if you'd like. Make sure that your baby has been fed and feels good. You may be able to use massage to calm your fussy baby, but as you are both learning about infant massage it is best to do it at a time when your baby is content.
Use light but confident touch as you massage your baby. Babies do not want the deep pressure that you might like. They do like for you to use long and firm strokes.

Begin at your baby's legs. This is an area that baby is used to having touched. It's a good place to start with. You can begin with the feet and work up the body to the top of your baby's head. Rub your baby's feet firmly and use a "milking motion" up the legs.After your baby's feet and legs move on to the stomach. Use firm and gentle motions. Begin on your baby's right side (your left) and massage from the hip-bone up to the belly button.

Then massage from the same hip-bone and over across the belly button. Finally begin at the hip-bone, move up, over, and across the belly button and back down to your baby's left hip-bone. This is often called an "I Love You" massage because you first stroke is an "I" shape, the second stroke is an "L" shape, and the third stroke is a "U" shape. After the tummy gently massage baby's chest then move on to the arms and hands. You can use the same "milking" motion on the arms and gently but firmly rub the palms of your baby's hands.

Next you can go to the face, brushing gently all across tension points to help relax your baby. Finally turn your baby over and work on massaging the back. Remember to use firm but gentle strokes. Re-apply oil whenever needed to help smooth over baby's body.

Storage
Store in a cool, dry place. Small ambient temperature changes, humidity, and even warming the candle will cause a frosting effect to some degree or other. Frosting does not impact the fragrance or the quality of the candle at all.

Benefits of Spa-Valous™ Eco-Chic Baby Massage Candles

Step 1
Read about Baby Skin Care Research
A current report in Clinical Paediatrics reveals that more than seventy-five percent of newborns suffer rashes within the first few months of birth. Researchers suspect that contributing factors include the very products that promise to soften, clean, and moisturize children's skin. They note in their research, "Newborn skin is relatively more permeable to topically applied agents than adult skin. Therefore, the risk of systemic toxicity is much greater in newborns. "If parents stop to read labels of supermarket and drug store baby skin care products, they will find that:

Many contain ingredients likely to be contaminated with formaldehyde, 1,4-dioxane, and possibly even nitrosamines, all of which are cancer-causing, highly irritating or both!

Baby talc-based powders contain tiny particles that irritate the skin and may contain perfumes, a leading cause of allergy and irritation. Parents would be wise to avoid baby powders containing talc. Although baby powders are most frequently applied to diaper rash, there can be better ways. Allowing fresh air to get to your baby's bottom whenever you can reduces the likelihood of diaper rash. Also, most paediatricians specializing in natural skin care warn parents to avoid petroleum jelly (by-product of mineral oil), which traps moisture against the skin and is also a common allergen. A parent would be wise to use baby skin care products & natural hair care products free of artificial colours, synthetic fragrances and petrochemicals, which are themselves irritants.

Step 2
Shop for Healthy Baby Skin Care
Look for baby skin care products that are pH balanced with healing herbs such as Soy Oil, Lavender and Chamomile which has anti-inflammatory and anti-microbial properties and stimulates cellular regeneration of healthy skin. Other baby friendly healing herbs to look for in baby bath, baby lotion and baby massage oil include:
Shea Butter: It is typically used in high-end cosmetic formulations to nourish and hydrate the skin..
Coconut Oil: Easily absorbed by the skin and scalp. Herbalists traditionally have used coconut oil in natural hair care and scalp preparations. It is very soothing and calming for skin and scalp.
Vitamin E: Vitamin E is a powerful anti-oxidant that helps retard cellular aging associated with free-radical damage. Protects the skin against UV-induced inflammation and maintains skin hydration. Vitamin E regulates abnormal proliferation of the superficial skin layers. (Vitamin E is derived from soy.)

Now available to parents are Spa-Valous™ Eco-Friendly Baby Massage Candles and Spa- Valous™ Non Fragranced Body Massage Candles which is free of cancer-causing chemicals and irritants and creates a soothing layer of protection for baby's tender skin. A gentle massage with Spa-Valous™ Eco-Friendly Baby Massage Candles can be a loving experience for you both!

Step 3
Use Common Sense so what is the most sensible approach when it comes to baby skin care?
Overall, in the beginning months of life, let Mother Nature do her job without your newborn baby having to cope with chemicals. Although plain water on newborn skin is usually good bet, occasionally a small amount of baby bath, baby shampoo or baby massage oil may be required. If so, use skin care products which are made with safe and healthy natural botanicals, and essential oils for your baby’s delicate skin. Avoid toxic preservatives, and other potentially hazardous ingredients. These products may be a little more expensive than the drug or supermarket brands; however they are completely safe, truly natural and nontoxic for your baby.