Scented candles increase the ambience of any room. If you are a soft, romantic person, you will enjoy the aroma of scented candles. You and your guests will be treated to a sense of calm and well being. As you will appreciate, the flickering glow of any candle heightens the elegance of a room.
The subtle aroma of a scented candle will heighten your spirit, even before the candle is lit. So when you come home tired and frazzled, the aroma & flickering glow of a scented wax candle will relieve your tightness & lift your spirits.
Scented candles serve as wonderful gifts for any occasion and every season especially when they are made by your own hands.
1. Select Your Candle Making Fragrance
Fragrance oil can be purchased in most craft shops. You can also look for it on the internet. I suggest that you opt for fragrance oils rather the cheaper alcohol and water based fragrances. Your wax mix will be oil based, so your fragrance should also be oil based. Why? As oil & water do not mix, a water based perfume tends not to mix with oil based wax.
2. Choose Your Wax
The basics of scented candle making are more or less the same as for ordinary wax candles. Start by choosing your desired kind of wax. These days the market offers a versatile range of wax, starting from natural waxes made from beeswax, palm or soy and on to gel or paraffin wax. You’ll want to decide on the aromatic intensity for your candles before choosing your wax. For instance, wax with less density holds less fragrance than higher density wax.
3. The Process of Making Scented Candles
Now we’ll go through the process of creating aromatic candles.
1st step is to melt your wax. For this purpose, a double boiler can be used. Meaning place the wax in a small pot & place that pot into a slightly larger container partially filled with tap water. You may now heat the water. Use a thermometer so as not to burn the wax. Maintain the temperature at a constant 170-180 degrees F.
After the wax is melted, insert a wick into the mold and remove your wax from it’s source of heat. Next add your fragrance oil. 1 ounce fragrance oil to 1 pound wax will create a fragrance of 6%. Be aware that greater amounts of fragrance will cause the candle to burn out sooner owing to higher liquid density of the candle.
Next pour the melted wax/fragrance mixture into it’s mold. The only task left is to let it the mold cool before removing your candle.
Congratulations, well done!
4. Experiment as You Go Along
Start experimenting and you will soon become an expert in all aspects of making candles. By using different fragrances and colors, you will perfect the candle making technique and thoroughly enjoy the process.
It’s a great feeling to award your loved ones with a scented candle that is homemade knowing that they will find the fragrant essences both relaxing and invigorating.
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