How to Make Scented Candles
Scented candles will enhance every room in your home. Aromatic candles create a very pleasant and romantic ambience. Making scented candles at home is very easy and incredibly affordable. You can easily create candles for your home, as gifts for friends and family, or to resell for profit. Candle making does not take a lot of time to learn. With a few simple supplies and basic equipment, you can start making scented candles right away.
Candles are great air fresheners that make your home smell great and remove odors caused by pets and food. Scented candles simply make your home smell great.
Bayberry and beeswax are natural candle waxes that are blessed with fragrance from Mother Nature. Several other candle waxes require a fragrance additive to produce a scented candle. The most commonly used fragrance additive in candle making is fragrance oil. These are highly concentrated oils that are added to the candle wax after it is melted and coloring has been added.
The variety of fragrance oils available for making scented candles is practically endless. You can purchase bakery style fragrance oils for candle making such as almond biscotti, blueberry muffin, chocolate chip cookie, cinnamon bun, fresh baked bread, and German chocolate cake.
You can opt for floral scents for making your scented candles such as blooming jasmine, blue gardenia, or cherry blossom. For more outdoors types of scents, you can select from Canadian wilderness, enchanted forest, or oak moss.
Choosing fragrance oils is a lot of fun. The possibilities are pretty endless when it comes to choosing fragrance oils for making your scented candles.
A good wax for a beginner to use when learning to make scented candles is the ever popular paraffin wax. After you have melted your wax, you add your dye or colorant to the double boiler top pot and stir it to blend thoroughly. After that is thoroughly mixed, add your chosen fragrance oil at the rate recommended by the supplier. Typical application rates range from ½ to 1 ounce per pound of wax depending on the type of wax you are using.
There are some pre scented waxes available for making votives, waxed animal shapes, tarts, and other candle types. This is a convenient way for beginners to start making scented candles.
When selecting your fragrance oil for candle making, be sure to note if the oil is recommended for the type of wax you will be using in your candle. You should also select fragrance oils specifically for use in candle making. Some fragrance oils are not suitable for candle making. Melted wax is hot, and the fragrance oil must be able to withstand the heat of the melted wax.
You can learn the art of candle making in a very short time. You can then start making scented candles for your own home, as gifts for family and friends, or to sell in a home based candle making business. Have fun making your own candles!
