Bath & Body Works’ Candle Design Sparks A Debate That Is Still Raging
One of the things that we may enjoy doing in life is burning candles. We may also burn them for different reasons but often, it is something that makes us feel good and they can smell great as well.
Bath & Body Works is well known for its candles and other products that help you to feel good in such a way. When they released their winter-themed ‘Snowed in’ candle products recently, however, people couldn’t help but notice one thing about the packaging.
It wasn’t long after the candle products were released that people started complaining on social media. After all, they said that the design on the product reminded them of the Ku Klux Klan.
Of course, the American retail company came forward with an apology and said that the similarities were ‘unintentional’ but that didn’t stop people from being upset by what they saw.
The product itself had three wicks and was a winter-themed candle that was supposed to symbolize a paper snowflake. When most people saw the product, however, they saw the white figures on the side of the packaging and said they looked a lot like pointed hoods.
It wasn’t long before people were outraged online and were calling out Bath and Body Works for approving something that should have never been released.
It wasn’t long after that Bath and Body Works discontinued the Snowed in design. Not only did it hit the most popular social media platforms, it also made it on the Bath and Body Works community page on Reddit.
People were saying that they have made a lot of snowflakes in their lives but they never made one with two eyeholes in the point. Other people were calling it ‘The Klan Krismas Kandle.’