Candle Making Tips for Inspiration, Fun and Profit!

We all know candle making is FUN but it can be frustrating too. Here you’ll find candle making tips and techniques to make your life a little easier. Whether you want to know the best temperature to add fragrance to your wax, fixing damaged candles or help your kids learn about candle making… We’ve got something to help you get better results.

help get candles out of the mold

Smooth out scratches or tiny imperfections in a pillar

Re-melt candle tops until level (for waxes that shrink… i.e. pillar blends)

Warm up metal molds before pouring

Clean up with ease… Use gun to heat up mold or pot and wipe clean with paper toweling

You can find heat guns at you local hardware or craft store.

Here’s a great way to involve your kids in your candle making. Even the smallest children can participate. Have them supply the coloring for your candles!

Junk crayons are great for coloring almost all kinds of candle making wax (not to mention they make decent tapers all by themselves…LOL). So have your kids save their broken and used up crayons for you. You should have the kids sort the crayons by color into containers. Zip lock baggies work great for this.

Just keep adding crayons until the shade and darkness is the way you want it. One crayon will color about a quart of wax.

Remember to make your melted wax a little darker than you want your finished candle to be because the wax lightens when it’s dry.

Cleaner Burning… Burn with about 90% less soot. They protect your indoor air quality. You won't have to worry about sooty residue on your ceilings and furnishings or in your lungs.

Longer Lasting… Burns up to 50% longer than paraffin candles. Soy Candles burn cooler,and therefore slower, than traditional paraffin candles. This makes them last longer.

Non-Toxic & Biodegradable… Less likely to trigger allergies.

Environmentally Friendly… Soy Wax is a Renewable Resource grown by American Farmers not a petroleum by product.

Easy to clean… Clean up easily with Soap and hot water.

With all these benefits why on earth would you make any other type of candle?

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Mix-n-Match Candle Making Fragrance Oil!

Learning how candles were made in times past is a good way to get all the basics out of the way. And it can really add to your candle making experience. For example colonial candle making is fun to do and you'll learn all about rendering suit into tallow and dipping candles.

For and older method try the "Roman Method" of medieval candle making here you'll be working with beeswax and you get to play with the wax like it's clay too!

No matter what type of historical candle making you decide to try. You'll learn valuable candle making skills and you'll appreciate all the MODERN conveniences you have available to you as a candle maker. But most of all you'll appreciate your light switch more ;)

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