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— Our Story —

Made by hand with love, inspired by nature.

A Summary of Us

A studio built around slowness.

We started Inner Bloom because we wanted something we couldn't find — a candle that smelled like something real, made by someone who cared.

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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What We Stand For

Six promises. No exceptions.

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.

The Process

From raw oil to ritual.

01

Source

Essential oils from small growers we can name. Wax from soy farms we've visited.

02

Blend

Each scent takes weeks of testing. We blend, burn, wait, adjust. Then test again.

03

Pour

Forty vessels per batch. Hand-poured at 165°F. Cured for three days minimum.

04

Send

Wrapped in hand-stamped paper. Shipped in compostable mailers. To your door.

Key Ingredients

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

Bulgaria

Cold-pressed olive oil

Crete · single-estate · organic

Greece

Wildflower honey

Vermont · raw · unfiltered

Vermont

Iris pallida

Tuscany · three-year cure · butter-extracted

Tuscany

Atlas cedarwood

Morocco · heartwood · cold-pressed

Morocco

Damask rose hydrosol

Isparta · spring harvest only

Turkey

The studio

Brooklyn · NYEst. 2022
Our 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.

40
pours per day
33
products in total
2
pairs of hands
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Ready to start your ritual?

Pick a scent. Pour it slow. Make it yours. We'll make sure it's worth the wait.