Making Scented Candles - 4 Tips for Creating Aromatic Wax Beauty
Aromatic candles will enhance the ambience of a room. 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. 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 worn out from the day, the presence of the perfumed candles tend to unwind you and make you feel uplifted.
Scented candles are wonderful gifts for any occasion and/or season, especially when made by your own hands.
1. Choose Your Fragrance For Candle Making
Fragrance oil can be purchased in most craft shops. You can also look for it on the internet. Select a good quality fragrance oil instead of going whth a cheap water or alcohol based fragrances. Because your wax mix is oil based, your fragrance must 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. Select Your Wax
The basics of scented candle making are more or less the same as for ordinary wax candles. Start by choosing 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. You should decide on the fragrance intensity of your candles before selecting your wax. For example, in case of gel candles, gel wax with less density holds less fragrance compared to gel wax with higher density.
3. The Art of Making Aromatic Candles
Now that we’ve talked about waxes, let’s discuss the method for creating scented candles.
The first step is to melt your wax. Use a double boiler for this purpose. That means place the wax in a small pot and, in turn, put that container into a slightly larger pot containing water. Now heat the H2O. Use a thermometer so as not to burn the wax. The temperature should be kept at 170-180 degrees Fahrenheit.
Once the wax has melted, put a wick in the mold and remove your wax from the source of heat. Now add the fragrance oil that you have chosen. 1 ounce fragrance oil to 1 pound wax will create a fragrance of 6%. Greater amounts of fragrance oil will cause the candle to burn out quicker.
Now pour your melted wax/fragrance mix into it’s mold. The only job remaining is to let it cool before removing your candle from it’s mold.
Congratulations, well done!
4. Experiment as You Go
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 art of candle making and thoroughly enjoy the process.
It’s a great feeling to award your loved ones with a scented homemade candle knowing that they will find the fragrant essences both relaxing and invigorating.
