Candle Making Recipes
When it comes to making candles, you can create many different sizes, styles, shapes, and varieties. You are limited only by your imagination. You can create endless candle making recipes.
The first main ingredient in candles is, of course, the wax. There are many different of wax varieties from which to choose. There is palm wax, soy wax, beeswax, and paraffin wax, to name a few.
Once you decide on a wax, you need to decide on how you wish to display the final candle. You can have molded freestanding candles, container candles, or tapers, for example.
Your next candle making recipe decision is what fragrance to use. There are countless choices when it comes to candle fragrances. You can even blend them together to create unique scent blends.
A word of caution on blending scents, however. Mix a small amount of the two scents together before adding them to the candle to be sure the aroma is what you expect.
The next choice you have to make is the finished color of your candle. Beeswax is already a natural golden color, so if you are making beeswax candles, you will skip this step. Color can be added using liquid dye, color chips, or powder.
When you are creating candle making recipes, make notes on each newly created one so you will have a record for making future candles. There is nothing worse than coming up with a fantastic recipe only to forget the ingredients and be unable to duplicate it.
Many candle makers coordinate their candle colors to the candle scent. For example, a raspberry candle may be red; a blueberry cheesecake candle will be blue; a pine scented candle may be green; and a vanilla bean candle may be a warm white or a honey color.
You are not confined in your creativity, however. You can make candles that have a variety of colors, poured in layers. You can pour one color of wax into a mold or container, let it harden, and then add different colored pours on top until you complete the candle.
Most all of your candle making recipes will include wax or gel, fragrance oil, a color additive, and a wick. That’s just the basics. Next thing is to take the wide variety of candle ingredient choices available to you and create candles based on your own unique talent. That is where the fun comes in. Happy crafting!
