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Mix Candle Co.
5/8/2026 | 3m 3sVideo has Closed Captions
Mix Candle Co. is a build your own candle and scent studio, perfect for a Mother's Day gift!
Mix Candle Co. is a build your own candle and scent studio, perfect for a Mother's Day gift! Owner Anthony Robinson walks us through how Mix Candle Co. works, and the many different types of gifts you can create for someone you love.
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Pittsburgh Business Profiles is a local public television program presented by WQED
Pittsburgh Business Profiles
Mix Candle Co.
5/8/2026 | 3m 3sVideo has Closed Captions
Mix Candle Co. is a build your own candle and scent studio, perfect for a Mother's Day gift! Owner Anthony Robinson walks us through how Mix Candle Co. works, and the many different types of gifts you can create for someone you love.
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is all about creating memories.
Scent is so tied to memory, so whenever you create a candle, every time that you burn it, you'll remember the special time.
My name is Anthony Robinson.
I'm the director of operations at Mix Candle Co.
Mix Candle Co.
is a create your own candle bar.
We have a variety of fan favorite fragrances.
We have the classics like lavender, vanilla, but we also have ginger ale and dragon fruit and coffee bean.
And we have a ton of different fragrances.
108 at any time that you can mix and match.
For the next step, you're going to mix your oils, and I recommend going in with a little bit of each.
Take your spoon, give it a mix, smell the spoon, and then from there just kind of tweak the ratio so you can add more of one less of another to your liking.
And the goal is to fill it all the way to the brim.
If you need help, I just want you to stop and let me know.
The sooner you let me know, the better I can help you, but just take your time with it.
Okay?
Awesome.
Have fun.
The vibe that I want everybody to experience is welcoming, creative.
I wanted to kind of put you at ease.
It's something that you don't do every day, and you can kind of experience something new and kind of a cool environment.
Okay, so for the next step, you're going to pick your oil up slowly.
Bring it to the wax.
You're going to pour it right in with confidence.
And then you're going to hold the wick straight up with one hand, take your spoon with the other.
And then you're going to stir back and forth around the wicks just like that.
Perfect.
I'm going to set a timer.
I'll let you know when it's up.
Just make sure that you're mixing for the full time.
Okay.
So what you would expect when you come in we first hand you a clipboard and you smell through over 100 fragrances, and we help you pick three to blend together to create your own fragrance.
And the pricing ranges from about $22 to about $40 to have a ton of different sizes styles, so you can really make it your own.
We definitely give a scent consultation so we won't let you make anything bad, but the idea is that you give us your list of favorites.
We tell you what goes together, so that way you'll end up with three that smell really great together based off of your preferences.
So we'll ask you like the vibe that you're going for?
Do you want it to smell like a spa?
Do you want it to smell like a cafe?
Because you can go with any vibe with the fragrances that we have.
So it's kind of important for us to ask those questions to get the perfect blend for you.
Okay, you can leave the spoon in the wax and you can let go of the wicks, kind of clean your spoon up to nice.
That smells so good.
I love that.
It's really nice.
She's gonna love it.
Amazing.
Our perfume making is a very similar process to our candle making.
So we have about 40 different fragrances which you would similarly mix and match.
We help you pick two to blend together.
I would say there are a lot of different ways to experience the candle making process.
So some people will make candles for each other.
Some people make them as a gift to give their mother.
So there's a lot of different ways that you can experience this.
So this Mother's Day you should absolutely stop by Mix Candle Co.
We have locations in Lawrenceville and the Southside Works.
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