A studio built around slowness.
Built between shifts. Born from need.
I came to the US with a suitcase and a lot of will. I worked as a cashier, a waitress, a bartender, a Spanish teacher — and now I sit at a desk coordinating manufacturing operations. Life here is fast. Beautiful, yes. But fast. And somewhere between one job and the next, I realized I had forgotten how to stop.
That's where Inner Bloom was born. Not in a lab. Not in a boardroom. In a quiet moment I decided to give myself — armed with a deep love for what nature already offers us. But love alone wasn't enough. Every formula we make has been developed alongside pharmacists, backed by research, and tested until we were certain it was something we'd put on our own skin. Because we do.
Inner Bloom is for anyone who needs a moment to reset. A place where candles, soaps, and oils aren't just products — they're permission to slow down. Clean formulas, honest ingredients, and the kind of care that doesn't ask you to choose between what's good for you and what feels good. To bloom, on your own terms.
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Hand-poured, always
Every candle, every soap, every label. Made one batch at a time in our Brooklyn studio — never outsourced.
Plant-based ingredients
Soy + coconut wax for candles. Olive, coconut and shea for soaps. We've never used palm oil and never will.
Therapeutic essential oils
Pure, therapeutic-grade essential oils from small growers we can name. No synthetic fragrance, ever.
Cruelty-free, certified
None of our raw materials are tested on animals — not by us, not by our suppliers. Leaping Bunny certified.
Refillable + returnable
Send your empty vessel back for a 20% refill discount. Compostable packaging on everything else.
Slow, on purpose
Forty pieces per batch. Six weeks of curing for soap. We don't rush — and you can taste it.
Never tested on animals — not even our raw materials.
Inner Bloom is 100% cruelty-free, Leaping Bunny certified. We require the same of every single supplier we work with. No exceptions.
From raw oil to ritual.
Source
Essential oils from small growers we can name. Wax from soy farms we've visited.
Blend
Each scent takes weeks of testing. We blend, burn, wait, adjust. Then test again.
Pour
Forty vessels per batch. Hand-poured at 165°F. Cured for three days minimum.
Send
Wrapped in hand-stamped paper. Shipped in compostable mailers. To your door.
What's actually inside.
Every ingredient on this list is sourced from a named supplier. No "fragrance," no proprietary blends, no hidden anything.
Rose absolute
Bulgaria · steam-distilled · small co-op
Cold-pressed olive oil
Crete · single-estate · organic
Wildflower honey
Vermont · raw · unfiltered
Iris pallida
Tuscany · three-year cure · butter-extracted
Atlas cedarwood
Morocco · heartwood · cold-pressed
Damask rose hydrosol
Isparta · spring harvest only
The studio
A two-room workshop. Two people. Forty pours a day.
We work out of a former tile factory on a quiet block in Greenpoint. The light is good. The kettle is always on. You can smell what we're making from the sidewalk.
Visits are welcome by appointment — see what a candle looks like before it's a candle, and take one home, still warm.