Make your own soy candles
For this, you just need 5 items that are cheap to buy, which means making soy candles is quite easy and inexpensive.
What you’ll need:
- soy wax: 1 pound per large candle
- fragrance: depends on how strong you want the smell to be, 1-2 ounces
- glass container: for storing the melted wax in
- color wax dye: anything from two to ten. Getting the rainbow’s colors is great
- cotton wicks
Once you have all the items at hand, here’s how you go about making candles:
#1 You put the soy wax in a saucepan and put it on medium heat.
#2 When it has melted, you take it off and throw in your fragrance oils. Stir with a wooden spoon until they’ve all blended in.
#3 Throw in your wax dye and blend in. If you have more dyes, divide the wax into a different metal container and color each using a different dye.
#4 Put the wax in the glass container of choice, making sure you put a cotton wick right through the middle of it. Put a pencil or a spoon across the middle of the jar’s top, so that the wick will lean against it, making sure it stays in the candle’s middle.
#5 Let it dry and chill completely. If you want to make a layer candle here’s how you go. You wait until it’s almost dried and chop all the candles into 3-4 pieces. After doing so, you combine them with each other, putting one piece on top of the other and then letting it dry.
#6 If you want to make some funky candles, it’s ok to pour in all the different colored waxes, all at the same time, but rather than stirring, rotate the container as you’re pouring the wax. It’ll get a funky aspect.
#7 Let the soy candles dry for a few hours, or overnight – to be on the safe side. After this, trim the wick to half an inch.
This is a great project to do – you’ll save money and have some fun. Plus, it’s perfectly safe. Really hot wax burns if you get drops on your skin, but that’s just momentarily, but it’s nothing serious, after a few seconds it’ll stop hurting.
What you have to be cautious about is when you’re heating the wax. Ensure you are stirring it the whole time – if it gets too hot, it will burn and be of no use anymore.
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