Scented candles increase the ambience of any room in your home. If you are a romantic kind of person, you’ll appreciate the aroma of these scented wax masterpieces. You and your guests will be treated to a sense of calm and well being. And, of course, the glow of almost any candle highlights the elegance of the room.
The subtle fragrance of scented candles will pep you up, even while the candle is unlit. When you arrive home tired and worn out from the day, the aroma & warm glow of a scented candle tends to loosen your tightness & lift your energy level.
Scented candles are great gifts for every season and all occasions; especially when they are hand crafted by yours truely.
1. Select Your Fragrance For Candle Making
Fragrance oil is available in virtually any craft shop. 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, your fragrance should also be oil based. Why? Oil and water do not mix so a water based perfume will not mix properly with the oil based wax.
2. Choose Your Wax
The basics of making a scented candle are more or less the same as for ordinary wax candles. Begin by choosing your wax type. The current day market offers a versatile range of wax starting with beeswax, palm or soy & moving 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 instance, wax with less density holds less fragrance than higher density wax.
3. The Act of Making Scented Style Candles
Now we’ll go through the process of creating aromatic candles.
The first job is to melt the wax. For this purpose, a double boiler can be used. Which means put the wax in a small pot. Then put that container inside a slightly larger pot containing water. Next step – heat the water. You’ll need a thermometer to ensure the wax is not burnt. 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 the fragrance oil. A mixture of 1 ounce fragrance oil to 1 pound wax will produce a fragrance that permeates your candle up to 6% of its density. Greater amounts of fragrance oil will cause the candle to burn out quicker.
Now pour the melted wax mixture into your mold. The only job left is to let the whole thing cool before removing your candle from it’s mold.
Congratulations, well done!
4. Experiment as You Move Along
You will gain great expertise in all phases of candle making once you start experimenting. By using different fragrances and colors, you will perfect the art of candle making and thoroughly enjoy the process.
It’s a great feeling to award your loved ones with a homemade scented candle knowing that they will find the fragrance both relaxing and invigorating.