Bath & Body Works pulls candle packaging that some said evoked Ku Klux Klan

Tub & Physique Works is apologizing for promoting a candle with packaging that some individuals mentioned appeared like Ku Klux Klan hoods.

The three-wick candle was referred to as “Snowed In” and briefly appeared on the corporate’s web site for buy. It was shortly pulled off of the web site as soon as the problem was delivered to Tub & Physique Works consideration.

The picture on the packaging was presupposed to convey a snowflake minimize out of paper. The outer edges of the snowflake are white and cone formed, with two holes minimize out close to the middle.

“I’ve by no means seen a snowflake that appears like that,” one Instagram consumer commented.

“This wasn’t an accident,” mentioned one other.

However others felt in another way.

“It’s only a poorly executed design – that shouldn’t have been permitted,” one Instagram consumer countered.

“It is a paper snowflake. I might not have checked out that and thought it was a racist candle,” mentioned one other.

A Tub & Physique Works spokesperson mentioned in a press release on Monday that the error was unintentional, and that the corporate is dedicated to fixing it.

“We apologize to anybody we’ve offended and are swiftly working to have this merchandise eliminated and are evaluating our course of going ahead,” the spokesperson mentioned.