Eclipse Candle Company

Eclipse Candle Company was founded by two married couples, four friends who shared a love of candles and their Christian faith. Its "Our Story" page said the company "was born of two Christian couples who have been like family for over a decade." Our earlier profile described it as a Texas-based company. Its first website, eclipsecandleco.com, was live by August 2010 as an online candle store with retail, wholesale and fundraising options.

The founders said they set out to make candles with an unusually strong scent throw, using a vegetable and food-grade paraffin wax blend, IFRA-certified fragrance oils and wicks free of lead and zinc.

“We wanted our candles to have remarkable scent throw, with fragrances that "moved" people, invoking cherished memories and inspiring new ones.”

Eclipse Candle Company founders, “Our Story” page (eclipsecandleco.com, archived), August 2011

In 2011 the company launched its flameless line of warmers and Memory Melts, plus its first body product, Body Melts. It also grew a party-plan sales force, the Glow Team, and promoted its first Executive Director in March 2012. The company later moved its website to eclipsecandleco.net, which carried a copyright line of 2010 to 2012.

Eclipse started with jar candles and added flame-free products as wickless melts took off. The range included:

• Jar candles: 8 oz and 12 oz glass jars and 12 oz designer tins, with black lids and labels.
• Memory Melts: the company's signature wickless wax melts, sold in dozens of scents, plus Mini Memories.
• Warmers: Illuminated Warmers, heated by a 25 watt halogen bulb, and Dual Purpose Warmers that held either a melt or a 12 oz designer tin.
• Body products: Body Melts made with soy, coconut oil and argan oil, and later body scrubs.
• Sprays and accessories: room and body sprays, and floating charm lockets.

Scents were grouped into collections. There were classic florals and fruits, fall and holiday scents, gourmet scents, a "Beloved Characters" line named after Twilight characters such as Jasper, Emmett and Rosalie, and a Pop Culture collection named after song titles. The ECC Believes! Charitable Collection, which included Body Melts, gave 100% of its net proceeds to charity.

Sellers were called Glow Team members. They sold at home parties, through a personal website and person to person, and could also run fundraisers for schools and groups. The company advertised no inventory to manage, a free personal website for the first month, a back office for orders, and free training by webinar.

Starter Kit

In 2012 new sellers chose a $49 Mini Kit or an $89 Starter Kit. Our earlier profile listed what came inside: the Mini Kit held a full-size warmer, catalogs, Memory Melts, sample products, business supplies and a consultant handbook; the Starter Kit added sample tins, a Body Melt, 8 oz and 12 oz candles and a 12 oz candle tin. The company's site said the larger kit later included a scrub and mask.

Pay

The company's 2012 opportunity page said Glow Team members received a 30% commission "at the point of sale." A Fast Track program offered up to $750 in free products during a new seller's first 75 days. Our earlier profile reported a 7% personal sales bonus at $1,000 in monthly volume and team overrides of 2% to 8% down to six levels for Executive Directors; check those figures against the company's own plan documents if you have them. Hosts earned 10% to 15% of party sales in free products, plus half-price items, on parties over $150.

Eclipse did not publish a closure notice that we could find, but its website tells the story. In January 2013 eclipsecandleco.net was still a full party-plan site with join, shop and host pages. By early March 2013 it had been cut back to four links (home, shop, outlet sale and contact) under a banner announcing a "Stock Up Sale! While supplies last..." on all body products, Memory Melts, Mini Memories and warmers.

By March 2014 the eclipsecandleco.net address showed a parked GoDaddy page, and eclipsecandleco.com was parked by July 2014. In October 2016 the .com domain was listed for sale. Neither address hosts the company today.

The brand has not returned, and we found no successor company. Former Glow Team members cannot order more products. Fans of wickless melts and warmers can look at live party-plan companies on Direct Sales Aid, such as Scentsy, in the candle and home fragrance category.