Making Scented Candle Tips - 4 Steps for Creating Aromatic Works of Art
Scented candles increase the ambience of any room in your home. If you’re a warm and romantic type of person, you will appreciate the aroma of scented candles. Treat your guests to a touch of mystique and a sense of calm. As you will appreciate, the flickering glow of any candle heightens the elegance of a room.
The warm fragrance of a scented candle will lift your spirts, even when the candle is not 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. Pick Your Candle Making Fragrance
Fragrance oil can be purchased in most craft shops. You may also shop for it on the web. Select a good quality fragrance oil instead of going whth a cheap water or alcohol based fragrances. Since your wax mix will be oil based, use a fragrance that is also be oil based. Why? Well, as oil and water do not blend, water based perfume tends not to mix with the melted wax.
2. Pick Your Wax
The basics of making scented candles are more or less the same as for ordinary wax candles. Start by selecting your 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. It is important that you decide on the fragrance intensity for your candles before picking the kind of wax. For example, lower density wax holds less fragrance than wax of a higher density.
3. The Art of Making Aromatic Candles
Now we’ll go through the process of creating aromatic candles.
1st step is to melt your wax. Use a double boiler for this purpose. That means put the wax in a small pot. Now place that container into a slightly larger pot partially filled with water. Next step - heat the water. Use a thermometer so as not to burn the wax. The temperature should be kept at 170-180 degrees Fahrenheit.
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. A mixture of 1 ounce of fragrance oil to 1 pound of wax will create a fragrance level equal to 6% of candle density. Greater amounts of fragrance oil will cause the candle to burn out quicker.
Now pour the melted wax/fragrance mixture into your mold. The only task left is to let it the mold cool before removing your candle.
Congratulations! You’re finished!
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 gift your loved ones with a homemade scented candle knowing that they will find the fragrant essences both relaxing and invigorating.