Making Scented Candles – 4 Tips for Creating Aromatic Wax Beauty
Aromatic candles heighten the ambience of any room in the house. If you are a soft, romantic person, you will enjoy the aroma of scented candles. You and your guests will be intoxicated with a sense of well being. Also, the warm glow of just about any candle enhances the elegance of a room.
The subtle aroma of a scented candle will heighten your spirit, even before the candle is lit. 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.
Aromatic candles serve as wonderful gifts for all occasions and every season, and they are particularily meaningful when crafted by your own hands.
1. Choose Your Candle Making Fragrance
Fragrance oil is available in most craft shops. You may also shop for it on the web. I would suggest that you opt for fragrance oils rather than going for cheap water or alcohol based fragrances. Your wax mix will be oil based, so your fragrance should 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. Choose Your Wax
The basics of making scented candles are more or less the same as for ordinary wax candles. Begin by choosing your wax type. Available in the market is a versatile range of wax beginning with naturals from beeswax, palm or soy and moving along to paraffin or gel wax. Decide on the aromatic intensity of your candles before making a wax selection. For example, lower density wax holds less fragrance than wax of a higher density.
3. The Process of Making Scented Candles
Now that we’ve covered wax selection, let’s talk about the process of creating scented candles.
The first job is to melt the wax. Use a double boiler for this purpose. That means put the wax in a small pot. Now place that container into a slightly larger pot partially filled with water. You may now heat the water. Use a thermometer to ensure the wax is not burnt. Maintain the temperature at a constant 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. 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. Appreciate that larger portions of fragrance oil means the candle to burn out sooner.
Now pour the melted wax/fragrance 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 gift your loved ones with a scented candle that is homemade knowing that they will find the fragrant essences both relaxing and invigorating.
