What constitutes small varies by company, but with CORDA products, it's really more like "tiny batch": candles are made about six at a time. Each candle goes through more than 20 different steps before it is a finished product! By making them by hand, I can pay close attention to every detail of the process and keep things consistently great.
Also, handcrafting something is much more fulfilling and more human than spending my days pushing buttons and manipulating a machine. Making things, good things, by hand provides meaningful work that you can be proud of at the end of the day.