Making Your Own Candles

Making Your Own Candles

Every romantic rendezvous should have a setting that matches it in mood and ambiance. What adds to a romantic atmosphere is when you add those little extras to enhance the feeling. Candlelight and flowers usually add that special magic to a romantic date.

A candle's soft, orange, flickering light can mesmerize and relax the senses. A way to enhance the effect of these is to use fragrant types with various colors that appeal to the senses. Alluring as these may be, they can turn out to be costly when used on a regular basis. Making one's own fragrant, colorful candles to enjoy, is a good way to go, without the high cost.

Put all the old candles you can find into a double boiler and melt them all down. The boiling water melts the wax through the double boiler without burning the wax. If you do not have enough old candles, buying new ones in bulk quantities will keep the total cost down and will definitely be cheaper than the exorbitant price charged in stores.

Aluminum containers though hot to touch when wax is poured are the best. Use anything from paper cups to glasses to get the designs and shapes you want.

The wick can be made out of an old candle wick or out of white cotton straw. However, you are going to need to make sure that you rub enough of the wax on the straw so that it is taut, because this will make it a lot easier for you to insert the wick into the wax once you have placed it within the mould. The color should be added very slowly to the wax so that you can stop just as soon as the desired shade is achieved. Now is the time to pour all of the liquid wax into the container and then slowly add the wick, this ensures that it is going to go right in the middle and then straight down.

Multicolored candles will need you to mix the different colors in different containers and then add the wax in the colors you want in the mould. The mold for the different colored candle should be tall as all the layers should be seen and care should be taken while pouring the different colors one on top of the other. Remember to wait for each colored layer to cool before pouring in the next. A horrible colored lump may form with all the colors mixed up if this is not taken care of.

If you want candles that are fragranced, you may add an oil-based fragrance of your choosing to all of the wax that you have melted, this is supposed to be done right at the very end, once the color has already been added and then stirred since all of the heat may cause all of the fragrance to escape.

The oil-based fragrances like the floral ones of jasmine and rose and the others such as tea tree, lemon grass and musk are easily available in the market. Now all you do is to put those moulds in your freezer and you have candles that are colored and fragrant in the shape you want.

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