Wooden Matchsticks

Spark joy this holiday season with our colorful wooden matchsticks! The perfect compliment to our limited-release Pacific Northwest-themed soy candles, these matchsticks come packaged in either an elegant corked glass vial or a beautiful sea-spired corked recycled sea glass jar. No matter the vessel, each set of wooden matches comes with a match striker on the bottom of the glass so you're always ready to light up your favorite occasion.

Wooden Matchsticks Quick Details:

• Limited Release! Only available during the holiday season.
• Hand-filled in Michigan by a small, woman-owned business
• 2- or 4-inch wooden matches in glass jars with natural cork closures
• Match striker included on the bottom of each glass vial
• Beautiful, nature-inspired match colors
• Guaranteed "ohhs" and "ahhs" from anyone around

🔥 Don't forget to grab one of our limited-release natural soy wood wick candles for the perfect gift set this holiday season!

Size

Each Corked Glass Vial measures 1.2" wide by 2.4" tall and contains (40) 2-inch wooden matches.

Each Corked Recycled Sea Glass Apothecary Jar measures 2.5" wide by 5.3" tall and contains (50) 4-inch wooden matches.

Materials

Wooden safety matches, cork stopper, and glass vial or recycled sea glass jar with an adhesive phosphorus match striker on the bottom of the glass.

Match Safety

• It's fire. Be careful.
• Remove the match from the glass and re-cork it.
• Hold the match with your dominant hand and strike the head of the match on the striker on the bottom of the glass quickly.
• Keep matches away from children and pets.

Packaging + End of Life

Our wooden matchsticks are packaged in glass vials or recycled sea glass jars with cork closures.

When you've fully extinguished a match, it can be backyard composted. The vials and jars can be recycled or refilled!

Origin

Hand-filled in Michigan.

Ethical Guarantees

Made in the USA
Palm Oil Free
Vegan
Woman-Owned

🌎 You care about the planet. So do we.

Look. I get it. It’s HARD to be an EcoWarrior. Someone who cares about the planet and wants the most sustainable products available - from the ingredients to the packaging to the way that product gets to your hands.

It seems like everywhere we turn, someone, somewhere, is greenwashing us.

But our superpower at A Drop in the Ocean is sorting through the BS, calling it out, and making sure our products are the absolute most sustainable and truly zero waste products we can find.

So on top of all the things we mentioned above about what makes our colorful, wooden matches so sustainable, here’s a few other things you should know:

• We’re actually practicing what we preach behind the scenes. In 2022, we saved all of our trash for four months, and wrote a whole blog post on it. The tl;dr version is this: in four months, we only produced two pounds of trash. Everything from the packaging our products come in down to the Sharpie we use to write “Fragile” on your box is zero waste to its core.
• We’re an online-only zero waste store - which is highly intentional. It may seem counter-intuitive, but online shopping is actually more sustainable than in-person. I’m a data nerd at heart and I love diving into the research, and there are countless studies that have shown that online shopping is the most sustainable way to get your everyday essentials. Don’t believe me? Check out our whole blog post on the sustainability of online shopping.
• We ship ugly boxes. Your order from A Drop in the Ocean is not going to arrive in a pretty, branded box. It’s gonna show up in a reused tea box, or a donated Amazon box, or maybe even an inside-out Girl Scout Cookies box. All of our shipping materials are always 100% plastic-free and reused as much as possible, with curbside-recyclable paper tape and a post-consumer recycled paper shipping label. It won’t be pretty, but it will be zero waste.

Got more questions about our zero waste products or our practices behind the scenes? Just send us an email! I’m always happy to chat all things eco.