How to Make Your Own Candles
Learning how to make your own candles is easy to do.
The key is to be organized. When you are organized & you love what you do, everything becomes easy.
There may be many reasons why learning how to make your own candles is important to you.
Reasons for Learning How to Make Your Own Candles
* It’s fun to make candles
* You can sell your candles for profit
* You control the look and design of your candles to compliment your decor
Some of my students like to combine candles with aromatherapy. And don’t forget, candles make great gifts.
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Ah! Let’s talk for a moment about the most essential ingredient in this entire process of candle making — the main ingredient — the type of wax you choose.
Three crucial elements affect the outcome and the quality of your project: the type of wax you use, the amount of wax and its temperature when you’re melting and pouring it.
Here we’ll just talk about the different waxes. For now, this will give you background for your first wax-shopping trip.
You’ll probably start with the most common of waxes…the paraffin-based wax. This is the wax most people use, at least initially.
As you answer the “how do you make candles” question, and discover just how easy it is, you’ll be venturing out to other types of waxes before you know it.
Here are some options for other types of wax you can use:
-Beeswax
-Bead wax
-Soy wax
-Palm wax
-Gel wax
Gel wax (though not “technically” a “wax” at all) makes some of the most creative and beautiful candles of all, but it comes with a price. Due to the higher temperatures required to work with gel, it requires the most caution.
This is a clear gel and can be found at just about any local craft store. It’s fun to use because you can drop and suspend small decorative items into the gel to make stunningly beautiful and individually tailored gifts for friends and family. Of course, you’ll want to be sure those items aren’t flammable. 
Because of the hotter melting point, the double boiler is not the way to melt it. Instead, you’ll need to put it directly over a heat source…which means you need to be especially careful.
The real key to working with gel is remembering that it won’t “melt” for you in the traditional sense. When you work with paraffin, palm, or soy, your wax goes from one physical state, that of a “solid”, to that of a liquid or molten form.
The transformation of gel wax is not nearly as obvious. As the gel gets hotter, it comes to resemble a syrup-like substance more and more. If you continue to melt it, thinking that it’s going to get thinner… well… that’s just never going to happen. Another reason a thermometer is a must.
But many candle makers, including myself, love to work with it because it’s clear and it allows so much room to really express your creativity.
As a candle maker, your choices are endless, but choice is both a blessing and a curse.
I strongly urge all beginners to pick 1 project, pick 1 wax, and stick with it. Learn how to make that type of candle, practice it, refine it, take notes, and don’t move on until you’ve mastered it.
The Secret Formula to Material Selection
OK, here it is…
1) Test
2) Take notes
3) Refine
4) Repeat
It sounds simple, and it is. But I kid you not; it is what separates a high quality candle from a poor quality candle, and more…
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