Giveaway from Pure Integrity Soy Candles

If you’re looking for a clean burning, highly scented candle that lasts, Pure Integrity Soy Candles might be for you.

Teresa and her husband Jeff Schumacher teamed up to start their candle making business in their kitchen. They later expanded into a factory that supplies three stores, along with several boutiques and salons.

Pure Integrity Soy Candles have been showcased in Business First, Women’s World Magazine, Buffalo News and have been interviewed locally on ABC and CBS multiple times.

They admit their first experimental candles were horrible, but after much trial and error came up with their “Innovative Fragrance Technology”, which allows them to use 50% more fragrance than regular scented candles. “Our fragrances are so pure and so realistic they will knock your socks off!”

The Soy Candle Giveaway

For this giveaway, Pure Integrity Soy Candles is offering the winner (US resident) a 16oz candle worth $19.99 of their choice. There are 70 scents to choose from, but I’d probably go for blueberry, apple crisp, pumpkin pie, fresh linen or summer bouquet.

Everyone who enters the contest will get an opportunity to post a candle making/candle business question here and Jeff and Teresa will personally respond and answer.

We won’t be grading your questions, so will simply draw a number to pick a winner on July 5th. The winner will still have to ask Jeff and Teresa a question here though. Good luck winning one of these wonderful soy candles from Pure Integrity Soy Candles!

As if Diwali weren’t colorful and fun enough, The Festival of Lights: A Lift-the-flap Diwali Celebration by Namita Moolani Mehra, illustrated by Darshika Varm, makes it even more fun to read about with flaps and things to lift and pull to see more information or details in the illustrations.

The book is a story about a family getting ready for Diwali and what happens on the different days of the five-day celebration. There’s cleaning, shopping, crafting, food preparation and getting the home altar ready for the big day.

It covers decorating the outside of the house with rangoli, diyas and lanterns, buying sweets to share with family and friends, the sights and scents of the mandir (home temple), getting dressed up in new fancy clothes, the story of Diwali and celebrations with relatives.

Flaps (there are more than 140 in all) give you vocabulary words for different foods and definitions, as well as fun things like what’s inside the shopping basket or where the cat is hanging out. They also help illuminate the story of Diwali, which is the triumph of good over evil as Lord Ram defeated the demon Ravana to save his wife, Sita.

This pretty and colorful book helps kids understand what Diwali is and how it is celebrated, regardless of whether they practice it at home. This would be a nice book to keep in a classroom (it’s rated for kids ages 3-7) or to have at home to teach kids about Diwali even if it’s not something you celebrate. Where I live there are a lot of people from India so we are probably exposed to Diwali more than some other regions of America, but it’s a nice holiday to know about wherever you live.

Combine with the book Diwali and check out some fun lantern crafts and printables for kids to round out your experience.

About the book: 24 pages, hardcover, published 2025 by Wide Eyed Editions. Suggested retail prices $22.99.

Have you read?