About Us
What we're all about
At Miller Girl Candle Co, our focus is creating a great candle with a great burn and awesome scent throw at as low a price as possible. Our candles are simple. No color, no crystals, no glitter, no frills. All you'll find is the wax, wicks, and fragrance.
- Our candles and melts are made with a blend of essential oils and high quality, fragrance oils, cotton wicks, and we've found the perfect soy-based wax blend with just enough paraffin to give our candles and melts a powerful scent throw.
- Our products are all poured by our hands and labels are put on our jars one at a time, not mass produced by machines at a candle factory. While we strive for consistancy, from time to time you may see a slight variation on a label, length of wick cut, a weird bow (especially if my husband's tying it). We pride ourselves in producing a high quality, handmade product.
- We keep our packaging simple as well. Our goal here is to minimize the cost to you and minimize our waste and impact on landfills. We use the plastic, heat-resistant, recyclable caps that come with our jars and reuse every packing peanut that comes our way from our suppliers. We encourage you to do the same! We haven't had to actually purchase packing materials in 2 years! You won't find fancy shipping boxing or a lot of frills when opening your packages. We keep it simple and save every penny we can while still putting out a beautiful product. As we grow, we hope to make this aspect of our business even bigger and better making our impact on the environment less and less. We encourage you to save those peanuts and reuse or recycle those jars and lids. Reach out for tips on cleaning them out, You can 100% reuse these jars for food or beauty supplies.
What's a Miller Girl?
I was born and raised in the Miller neighborhood of Gary, IN. Miller is located along the Northeast side of Gary, right on the Southern shores of Lake Michigan. Gary and especially Miller, have always held a special place in my heart.
As teens in Gary in the 90's my sister and I were fortunate enough to grow up in this small section of Miller that we call 4H. (Hancock, Henry, Howard, and Hamilton St) surrounded by a large group of kids our age that are now, our forever friends. We ran the streets of Miller in the 90's. Eating pizza at Miller Pizza, hanging out at Ming Lings, the library, custom imports. and always hanging out back in the Miller Woods. Always in a large pack of almost all girls (and Cullen Daniel) doing all the things teens do with the greatest group of people. We were like a drama club street gang that got into a little mischief but also went door to door caroling around Christmas. We were so blessed to grow up in that place, at that time, with those people.
About 10 years ago, my sister told my daughter that we're Miller Girls and that she's a Miller Girl too. Then, she told my daughter what being a Miller Girl entailed. We're tough and we don't take crap from anybody lol It stuck.
Thats my Miller Girl story! We do live in and pour candles in Manteno, IL now, but my heart is in Miller. My husband, candle maker extraordinaire, Dylan is just a Miller Girl by marriage. Almost as good as the real thing but he makes a mean candle, so we'll forgive him.
Please reach out with any questions or requests. We can customize locations or names on the candle labels if you need something more specific to your region.
Thanks for reading!
Jen
Picture by me | Gary Air Show | Marquette Park Beach | 2012