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Interesting study. It makes sense since pretty much all other popular forms of burning things are linked with cancerous substances. I wonder if beeswax candles

• masklinn 5y ago
  > It makes sense since pretty much all other popular forms of burning things are linked with cancerous substances. Though note that the 2009 study mentioned was (AFAIK) not published in any peer-reviewed journal, and have provided no review for data. A more recent study[0] found that > For the un- scented candles it can be determined that the fuels palm, paraffin, soy and stearin behave very similarly in terms of emissions (see Tables 4 and 5). No individual wax was shown to have a consistently better emission profile than the others. It did not test for beeswax, but broadly speaking the hierarchical cluster analysis of fuel/fragrance shows much stronger clustering by fragrance than by fuel. There is little reason to think that beeswax would differ significantly. Though it should be noted that the study was financed by candlemaking associations, and advised by both those and fragrance houses. Either way sounds to me like burning stuff is bad, no matter what you burn, burnning different shit is mostly just putting (usually kooky) lipstick on a pig. [0] https://candles.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Measurement-and-evaluation-of-gaseous-and-particulate-emissions-from-burning-scented-and-unscented-candles-2021.pdf https://candles.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Measurement-a...