Candle
Before kerosene and electricity, hemp was light. Hemp seed oil was used in lamps across pre-industrial Europe; hemp wick was twisted by hand for tapers and rushlights. The flame is slightly warmer in tone than paraffin's — closer to gold than to white — because hemp oil burns at a marginally lower temperature.
Pour and set
Modern artisan candles blend cold-pressed hemp seed oil with beeswax (60% wax, 40% oil) to give the soft set that pure hemp oil can't reach. Warm to 65 °C, stir gently, pour into the vessel with the wick centred and weighted. Let it cool slowly so the surface doesn't sink.
Hemp oil + beeswax · 65 °C
How they burn
Hemp-oil candles burn cleaner than paraffin (no aromatic hydrocarbons) and slower than pure beeswax for the same wick gauge. A 200 ml vessel typically gives 25–30 hours of light. The smell — when you blow it out — is faintly grassy, not chemical. Pleasant.
Cleaner than paraffin · slower than beeswax
Hempwick
Hempwick — twisted hemp cordage dipped in beeswax — is a tradition that survived its candle. Cigar smokers and the smoking community use it to light without the chemical taste of a butane lighter. RAW, Bee Line and Humboldt Hempwick are the three most-distributed brands in 2026.
The wick that survived the candle
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