Milk Jar founder, Holly Singer, started making candles in her kitchen in 2014 as a way to get in touch with her creative side, and experiment with natural candle wax after learning most common candles on the market are filled with toxic paraffin wax bases. After a year of making candles as a craft for herself and her friends, paired with feeling that her career path was not meeting her desire to help people, Holly came up with the idea of Milk Jar; a company that blended her love of creativity and passion for lifting up and giving back to the disability community. 8 years later Milk Jar has become a household name in Calgary that’s been regarded for their yearly donations to non-profit programs that support disabled people in Alberta, and for being a role model for inclusive employment. Consisting of two lines of candles: one with plant-based essential oils, and the other with phthalate-free fragrance oils, each candle is hand poured, features double-ply wooden wicks, and 8oz glass for a quality burn time of 40-45 hours. Milk Jar remains locally manufactured, and is a staple in Canadian apothecary with stockists across the country.