Bath & Body Works has stopped selling a snowflake-shaped candle after some customers claimed its design resembled Ku Klux Klan hoods. The company apologized for the imagery, saying it was unintentional and vowed to remove the item from shelves.
Bath & Body Works said it has stopped selling a candle adorned with a snowflake cutout image that some people claimed resembled Ku Klux Klan hoods. The bath and home product chain also apologized for the candle's imagery, which depicts a white-paper cutout of snowflakes with arms with pointed tips, each with two circular holes. Some online commenters noted that the design resembled KKK hoods.Bath & Body Works said the imagery was 'unintentional.
'Oh god the background colors and the little holes in the label make it look like they are standing in front of a fire ... the bad kind of fire lol,' one user wrote on Reddit.The three-wick candle, which was scented with 'creamy buttermint, sweet musk and cozy vanilla,' is no longer available at Bath & Body Works' website, but it is currently available on reseller sites.
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