Candle Making

Candle making?

This is for anybody who makes candles, either for a business or a hobby. I want to start making candles at home. I have a few questions about this, sorry if I sound stupid: Can you use the same pouring pot for many different candles with different scents and colors? If so, how would you get all the wax from each candle out of the pot to start another one without scraping the pot for hours? Do you HAVE to use a scale? Can anybody give me some tips or suggestions about scents, techniques, etc.? Also, I don’t know if somebody local to where I live has came up with this, but I have a candle that is called “Butt Naked”! I don’t know if somebody has changed the name of this scent or made up their own. Would anybody know what scents are in this candle? I would really appreciate any advice, instructions, or anything anybody could tell me about candle making at home. Gift ideas or anything. Thanks!

1. You can use the same pour pot for different colors or scents. Just clean it out before you do. I’ll just hit my port pot with a hot air gun (Not a hair dryier the type you use for stripping paint) and wipe it out with paper towel and normally I’m good to go.

2. Scales are pretty cheap. My first scale I bought was from K-Mart it was under $20. To measure your fragrance oils it is done by weight not by fluid ounces. Also by weighing all of your amounts you will be able to reproduce the candle easier next time you make it. Every time you make a candle keep records of everything. The type of wick you use, jar or mold type, amount of wax, additives, oils, etc. Also when buying a scale make sure it it can measure small amounts. Look for something that can measure .01 grams.

It’s real common for people to change the name of their candles. Also even if they didn’t the fragrance oils can smell totally different from one supplier to another. Finding the right oil can take a lot of time. Many of the supplier sell sniffies or small sample of their scents. It’s best to try them out before you just rush out and buy a large amount. Also keep in mind what the oil smells like in the bottle can have a different smell once it is made into a candle. So don’t go off of how the bottle smells. For instance I make a black cherry candle if you smelled the bottle you would think it smelled like a bad tasting cherry cough drop. When pouring the candle the same thing. The fumes burns your eyes and you would think it was the biggest mistake I made for a scent. But once it cured the candle rocks. It’s one of my best sellers year round.

For tips I would say hit a few forums and start doing some reading. Here are a couple that I go to and are real helpful.

http://www.candlecauldron.com/
http://www.candletech.com/
http://boards.bittercreek.com/tool/mb/bittercreek

Good luck with your new hobby.

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Making candles at home – making candles at home

Learn to make candles at home is easy and fun. Candles can make beautiful, elegant and very affordable gifts. Today, with the help of Internet, anyone can only order the supplies needed for the manufacture of candles that may be even more than many popular brands. Included in this article are simple and easy steps in the process of making candles, do not worry, nothing happens to her to simply fun.

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Make sure that the preparation of these materials before you begin your adventure with candle making: clay pot or a double grill, thermometer, wax candle chips, glass container with a lid, lock, oil scented candle or essential oils and food coloring. Just a reminder before starting to make their candles to keep a close eye on the wax, keep away from the flames can ignite.

Using a crock pot or double broiler heat of the wax and when the wax reaches 160 degrees, mix the scented oil and stir. While the wax is heated, you can preheat the candle jar in the oven at lowest setting. In this way the wax stick better to the pitcher. After the wax has melted, Take the glass jar candle out of the oven and carefully pour the ingredients into the jar candle. You must leave a room at the top to cover and keep fit some wax to finish.

After that, straighten the wick and lower the molten wax disk and do everything possible to put the disc as close as possible the center of the candle as possible. Let the candle cool down to where there is a semi hardened crust on top and then take the wick and adjust it focuses on the bottle. Let the candle cool completely at room temperature, this would lead to six hours.

Now you can trim the wick to about a quarter of an inch and you go, your candle very own custom is ready for your enjoyment. You can also try making candles with different packaging such as porcelain, tin cans or any something that can withstand the intense heat from the aircraft. There you go, whether if he did not like the finished product, the good thing is that you can always heat the wax and start again.

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