Our Story

30 years wild

St Eval was born in the Cornish countryside. From our clifftop home in North Cornwall, we work with nature to collect fragrances and turn them into wildly scented candles. Each one is a journey, an experience, a landscape we love.

As we pass our thirtieth year, it’s time for a new look for St Eval. One that can truly tell our story – fully immersing customers and candle lovers in the wild places that we love. Come with us across a misty moor, along an ancient coastline or wherever the wildflowers grow.

Artisan roots

Candle making is an artisan craft. We use both traditional and contemporary methods to capture wild scents and turn them into beautiful candles.

We make our dinner and small pillar candles with magnificent drawing machines, and larger pillar candles in our Moulding room.

Our vintage original drawing machine is from the 1940s and the quality of its candles is so impressive that we commissioned a local engineer to make us a second.

Both machines are an engineering marvel – gliding cotton wicks through pools of molten wax and gradually building the diameter, layer by layer. Once they’re ready, each candle is cut and milled by a candlemaker before being packed by hand into gift boxes.

 

Our Values

We place people and the planet at the heart of what we do.  Our company values are focused on the following key areas and we continuously strive to improve, innovate and nurture, in order to grow as a business.

• keeping traditions alive

• treading softly on the earth

• caring, open-minded and respectful of individuality

When you purchase from us you are supporting our local economy – even as a small company we are a vital player in Cornwall and are very proud to contribute to the growth of our economy. We hope you choose to buy products made in the UK.