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Candle Making

by WitchMom? on March 23, 2010

Candle Making

Making your own candles are easy and fairly inexpensive. You can always go to the local store and buy some candles, but you wouldn’t believe how much more effective your candles are when you make them yourself and when I make candles for people I always make them from scratch.

You Will Need:

1. Paraffin wax (the kind of wax you would find at the grocery store in the canning section).

2. Crayons

3. Candle wicks

4. popsicle sticks or clothes pins

5. old jars, old candle votive glasses etc.

6. double burner (or large pot for boiling water and another pot that will sit inside of the larger pot)

7. baking soda (for fires just incase! Better yet have a fire extinguisher)

Get water to boiling and keep it hot, sit the other pot inside the larger pot that has the boiling water in it. Put your parriffin wax block into the smaller pot and let it melt. The paraffin wax that you buy at the market wont make alot so you should really buy a few of those. For now we will focus on one candle and getting it done. Once you do that one candle its a piece of cake afterwards and you’ll be able to judge later on, just how much wax you would need for larger projects.

I usually buy a few boxes of cheaper crayons and use those for color. Choose the color you want your candle to be and put the crayon in there and melt it. Your wax will turn out to be the color of the crayon. Using more than one crayon will make your color alot more vibrant.

Once you melt your wax your ready to fill your votive with wax. Position the wick so its in the center of your votive. If the container is small enough I would use a clothes pin to center it and leave it until its dry. The drying process takes a while so just sit your candle aside until its finished drying.

There you have it. Simple and cheap method of creating your own candles. It goes without saying that melted wax is hot so be sure to keep potholders handy. Never put out a wax fire with water, but use a fire extinguisher or baking soda.

The next how to will be how to make it into a spell candle! :) Don’t worry you can use these candles you made for that, but theres also another step that could be done to make it a magic candle before you even pour your wax into the votive.

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