About Us

Golden Child Candles was founded in 2020 like many entrepreneurial endeavors during the original Covid-19 lockdowns. Tyler Humphries has always been a creative homebody that enjoyed doing actives with her family. In 2019 she started making candles as a way to connect with her niece and nephews, often gifting the candles to their family members. Tyler continued to create various types of candles, experimenting until she thought she found the perfect wax, wick, container, and scent blends. After giving hundreds of candles to her mom to test, her mom told her to start selling her candles.

Tyler took her mom’s advice and signed up to sell at a local neighborhood center’s event only for the event to be canceled due to the city going into lockdown. With 100 candles ready for sell, Tyler decided to sell her candles on Etsy and then her own website. When the lockdown lifted, she ventured into pop-up events and farmers markets and also started making wax melts. Her candles have seen a few changes but none like what happened in 2021.

In the spring of 2021, Tyler inherited her deceased father’s home which had previously been her grandparents home. It was a red brick Victorian home built in 1899 with a lot of its original interior still intact in the western part of St. Louis city and it had recently been broken into. Tyler was intimately familiar with the home and its community because it was the home she’d lived in as a small child. But the home and neighborhood had seen better days. Due roof damage, foundation damage, both porches collapsing, and the damage that had been done to the original hardwood floors and horse hair plaster during the break-in the house seemed to be on its last leg. Worse of all, the back wall was collapsing and Tyler’s mother had to decide whether to tear it down or try to save it.

Tyler’s mother couldn’t afford to save it but she also didn’t want to break the promise she’d made to her husband on his deathbed: to not sell or destroy the house. Seeing the internal struggle, Tyler offered to be the house’s new protector. Tyler’s mother agreed with two conditions: to never sell and to start working on it as soon as possible. Tyler started working on it a couple months later and from that moment on, Golden Child Candles became more than a candle brand. It became a light at the end of tunnel and a way to stitch a community back together. Golden Child Candles became one of Tyler’s greatest tools to renovate and restore the house and by extension the community it sits in.

With every purchase of a Golden Child Candles product, you are helping to fund the renovation and restoration of not only a part of Tyler’s family history but St. Louis history as well. 

“From our home to yours” takes on so many meanings when you’re talking about Golden Child Candles’s handmade candles and wax melts.