B&B Candles Soaps & Gifts

B&B Candles Soaps & Gifts operates at 12 Stone Street, sharing a building with Space Coast Records in the same small stretch of Historic Cocoa Village where Stone Street meets the district’s larger shopping grid. The shop’s name describes its focus plainly, candles, soaps, and gifts, the kind of small batch, often handmade goods that tend to do well in a walkable downtown district built around browsing rather than errand running.

That kind of gift shop plays a specific role in a district like Cocoa Village, giving visitors an easy option for a small, giftable purchase after walking past the antique malls and clothing boutiques that require more of a commitment. Stone Street itself is one of the shorter connecting streets in the historic core, tucked between the main run of Brevard Avenue and the rest of the village’s commercial blocks, and it holds a concentration of smaller specialty shops, including an antique mall and a record store, within just a few doors of each other.

The shop sells through its own storefront in the village as well as through an online store built on Big Cartel, a platform commonly used by small, independent makers and craft businesses rather than large retailers, which fits with a candle and soap shop likely making at least some of its own inventory by hand. The business is registered as pet friendly with the Historic Cocoa Village Main Street organization, meaning customers exploring downtown Cocoa with a dog are welcome to bring their pet inside while they shop.

Cocoa Village hosts more than fifty events throughout the year, and gift oriented shops like this one tend to see a meaningful bump in traffic during the holiday season events and seasonal markets the city and the Main Street organization put on. B&B Candles Soaps & Gifts can be reached at 760-805-3498 or by email at cannon_bethany@yahoo.com, and shoppers can browse its Big Cartel storefront or follow its Facebook and Instagram accounts for updates on new scents and gift bundles between visits to the physical shop on Stone Street.

A candle and soap shop at this scale tends to rely on repeat local customers as much as visiting shoppers, since scent preferences and favorite formulas keep people coming back in a way a one time souvenir purchase does not. Sharing a small stretch of Stone Street with a record shop and sitting a short walk from the antique mall on the same block gives B&B a natural place in a short, self contained shopping loop for anyone spending an afternoon in this corner of the village.