First Candles, Now Soap. Durham’s CandleScience Expands in DIY Market
CandleScience founders Dan and Michael Swimm came into the candle business honestly. Their father was a chemist at a pair of once prominent global candle companies and taught them the craft and chemical process of making the best quality candles and fragrances. But they brought something else to the table too—backgrounds in programming from the dotcom era and a deep desire to work together to solve problems in an industry that hadn’t evolved with technology. Thirteen years later, they’ve built the largest distributor of natural soy wax in the U.S. and a leading ecommerce company in the candle industry. The...
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