Does lighting a candle in the bathroom really help get rid of the poop smell????

no a double flush is a better option with a cracked window 

Yeah sure, you got fire insurance, right?

The answer is eventually.

The flame will eventually draw in all the methane to the flame and burn it off but it takes quite a bit of time and the pollution that a burning candle produces is toxic

and simply adds to you already polluted home atmosphere

Maybe. It can also tip over and burn 

your house down. I was in somebody’s bathroom once and they left a book of matches on the top of the toilet I guess so that you could light one and it would get rid of the smell. Personally, I think it’s kind of ridiculous but it might be better to try that approach than to burn your house down. Or just go out and buy some Glade mist aerosol spray at the store or something. Open the window maybe? Put on the ventilation fan? Don’t leave the bathroom until you’re sure the smell has dissipated?I don’t know. It just seems like There are more pressing concerns in this life and in the world at this moment.But I know how self-conscious people can be about human odors. We really don’t like being human. You have to sanitize the sh*t out of everything so we don’t have to deal with our humanness. George Carlin said that when he was a kid they used to swim in the Hudson river and they were swimming literally in human feces. And he never got sick or got a cold. Of course he got a lot of heart attacks when he got older but that was from doing too much cocaine. That’s another matter. They also did a study and they found that the people in India who live in the lowest class where they live in filth and they eat dirty food and they’re generally unclean are also the ones who have the lowest incidence of Covid I guess because there immune system’s are stronger from dealing with all those germs and bacteria all the time. Something to think about. And there was another study in Sweden where people who did their dishes by hand instead of sterilizing them in the dishwasher, their children actually had fewer allergies because their immune system’s are also stronger. So maybe you should welcome your humanness and your human dirt . And smells. All of it. LOL.  Be filthy and smelly!  Liberate yourself!

It doesn’t get rid of it. Just masks it . 

try a lighted match instead.

A scented candle just adds the scent to the room.

Candles , like GoodAir, will eliminate odors from the room. 

Maybe a small Yankee Candle lavender spray I spray directly into the toilet, 

Flushing twice can help

And turn on the fan in the bathroom and keep the door open. 

People laugh but lighting a match does seem to make the smell go away. Give it a try and come to your own conclusion.

No, the whole idea behind that comes from the smell of Sulfur burning when you light the match. Lighting a match produces sulfur dioxide, which masks the odor of compounds in your farts and feces that make them smell bad. ... Instead, it just masked the smell of methyl mercaptan, which, as aforementioned, is one of the smelly gases in farts and feces.