About

We want to first thank you for visiting our shop and we hope you are enjoying your shopping experience. 

Vespertide Apotheca is owned and operated by two women who practice traditional witchcraft and spiritualism.

We have a passion for clean ingredients and our products are produced in small batches in southern California by our own hand. We are a plastic free company and all packaging and materials are produced without disposable plastics. When possible we will choose organic ingredients, and they will be marked as such. The mica we use in our candles and cosmetics is conflict and child labor free and is either a synthetic lab created mica or is mined from United States and Europe.

Our figural candles are crafted using 100% pure California beeswax, ethically sourced from local apiaries and our jarred candles are crafted with either soy, beeswax, or coconut wax. Items marked vegan will be devoid of any beeswax or other animal products. Our candles use 100% cotton wicks with no hard metals.

All of the fragrances we use are certified clean through a third party regulatory system and meet the following standards.

  • Free of Phthalates and Similar Materials 
  • Free From Materials that Require Proposition 65 Labeling 
  • They meet European and Canadian Standards
  • IFRA Compliant 

NOTE - If a company is claiming "Organic Beeswax", then it is from a foreign source. Organic beeswax rarely exists in the United States, as there is no way to ensure where a bee collects its pollen. Foreign sellers will falsely list beeswax as "organic" because no testing or proof is required by the US government for imported items labeled "organic" (most imported beeswax is from China). Our wax is produced from local California hives and from trusted apiaries.

Warning: All figural candles will drip wax and run, as there is no containment apparatus. Please make sure to burn the candle in a wax/fireproof container on a heat resistant surface.

It is important to burn the pillar for about 1 hour per inch in diameter. For example: A candle with a three inch diameter should be burned for three hours at a time to prevent tunneling as this maximizes the use of the wax.

Common Sense Candle Instructions:

Never leave candle unattended and always burn within sight.
Keep away from flammables.
Keep away from children.
Trim wick to ¼" before lighting.
Do not burn more than 3-4 hours