Clean home fragrance
Your candle is filling your home with petroleum byproducts.
Most luxury candles burn paraffin wax and synthetic fragrance — a petroleum byproduct that releases carcinogens, and a legal loophole that conceals hundreds of undisclosed chemicals including hormone disruptors. House of Intent uses only plant-based wax and pure essential oils. Nothing hidden.
100% plant-based wax
Pure essential oils only
Hand-poured in Essex
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What nobody told you
The home fragrance industry has a problem. You deserve to know what it is.
Paraffin wax is a petroleum byproduct. Synthetic fragrance legally conceals up to hundreds of undisclosed chemicals, including known hormone disruptors. Most luxury candles and diffusers use both. Most brands don't tell you.
The wax
Paraffin wax is made from petroleum
When burned, it releases chemicals including benzene and toluene — both classified as carcinogens. House of Intent uses 100% plant-based coconut and rapeseed wax.
The fragrance
'Fragrance' hides what it doesn't disclose
In the UK and EU, brands can list 'fragrance' as a single ingredient and conceal hundreds of chemicals inside it. We use only pure essential oils — every ingredient is exactly what it says.
Your hormones
Synthetic fragrance disrupts your endocrine system
Compounds in synthetic fragrance mimic oestrogen in the body. For women in perimenopause especially, this matters. Our pure essential oils do not contain xenoestrogens.
The origin
Two neighbours. One Friday evening. Everything changed.
Michele had survived cancer. She had become forensic about everything she put in and around her body. One Friday evening she picked up the candle she had burned for years — the beautiful one, the expensive one — and read what was in it.
Paraffin wax. Synthetic fragrance. She had survived cancer and was filling her home with petroleum byproducts in the name of self-care.
Amanda and Michele spent a year developing a completely clean alternative. Plant-based wax. Pure essential oils. Nothing hidden. House of Intent was born.
Read our full story
100%
Plant
Based Wax
Based Wax
Our candles
Clean fragrance for your home
MIST
THE SCENT - Fresh. Clear. Awakening. MIST is a soft, clean scent designed to ...
£45.00
SMOKE
THE SCENT - Smoky. Woody. Deep. SMOKE is a grounding scent designed to slow t...
£45.00
SUN
THE SCENT - Warm. Soft Citrus. Uplifting. SUN is a comforting, luminous scent...
£45.00
The House of Intent Ritual
Pair two candles of your choice - light one candle during the day, perhaps MI...
£75.00
The perfect gift — or both for you
The Ritual Set
Two House of Intent candles. Your choice of scent. For the woman who burns one in the kitchen and one by the bath. For the gift that says you actually thought about it.
£75
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Why House of Intent
The standard we hold every product to
100% plant-based wax
Coconut and rapeseed wax only. No paraffin. No petroleum byproducts. Clean burning from start to finish.
Pure essential oils only
A minimum of 8 essential oils per candle, chosen for both scent and therapeutic properties. Nothing synthetic. Nothing concealed.
Made in Essex, by hand
Every candle poured, every diffuser blended in small batches in Little Baddow, Essex. You know exactly who made it and where.
Full ingredient transparency
Every candle. Every diffuser. Every ingredient listed. No legal loopholes. No 'fragrance' as a single word. Just the truth on every label.
What our customers say
Women who made the switch
★★★★★
"I've been burning candles for 20 years. I didn't know I should have been asking what was in them. Now I'll never go back."
Sarah M. — Verified Buyer
★★★★★
"The scent is incredible — but it's knowing exactly what's in it that makes me feel good about lighting it every night."
Claire T. — Verified Buyer
★★★★★
"I'm perimenopausal and I'd read about xenoestrogens. These candles are the first ones I've felt comfortable burning."
Rachel H. — Verified Buyer
The founders
Built by two women who refused to accept less.
Michele survived breast cancer and became forensic about her environment. Amanda moved to Little Baddow in 2020 — a decision that changed everything — and became Michele's neighbour. Their Friday evenings became the origin of House of Intent.
They are not wellness influencers. They are not entrepreneurs by design. They are two women who discovered something that bothered them deeply and spent a year doing something about it. Every candle they make carries that intention.
Michele
Co-founder
Amanda
Co-founder
The House — our founding community
Join the women who are changing what they bring into their homes.
50 founding members. 10% off for life. Early access to every new scent, every new diffuser, everything we create. A direct line to Amanda and Michele. This is not a loyalty programme. It is a community of women who are asking better questions.
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Luxury fragrance,
consciously created
consciously created
100% plant-based wax
No paraffin. No soy.
No paraffin. No soy.
Vegan &
non-GMO wax
non-GMO wax
Sustainably sourced
& biodegradable
& biodegradable
100% pure
essential oils
essential oils
No synthetic
fragrance
fragrance
Free from parabens,
phthalates & CMR
phthalates & CMR
