Making Scented Candles - 4 Tips for Creating Captivating Scented Masterpieces
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. 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 serve as wonderful gifts for any occasion and every season especially when they are made by your own hands.
1. Choose Your {Candle Fragrance}
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. 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, the water from a water based perfume tends not to mix with the melted wax.
2. Select Your Wax
The basics of {making scented candles} 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, lower density wax holds less fragrance than wax of a higher density.
3. The Act of Making Scented Style Candles
Now that we’ve talked about waxes, let’s discuss the method for creating scented candles.
1st step is to melt your wax. I suggest using a double boiler. Meaning place the wax in a small pot & place that pot into a slightly larger container partially filled with tap water. You may now heat the water. You’ll need a thermometer to ensure the wax is not burnt. The temperature must be kept between 170 &180 degrees F.
Once the wax has melted, put a wick in the mold and remove your wax from the source of heat. Next add the fragrance oil that you’ve selected. One ounce fragrance oil to 1 pound wax will create a 6% fragrance. Be aware that greater amounts of fragrance will cause the candle to burn out sooner because it has a higher liquid density.
Now pour the melted wax/fragrance mixture into your mold. The only job left is to let it cool before removing your candle from it’s mold.
Congratulations, well done!
4. Try Different Things as You Go
You will gain expertise in all phases of candle making when you start experimenting. 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 friends with a {scented candle that is homemade} knowing that they will find the fragrant essences both relaxing and invigorating.
