Candle Making: DIY Candles: The Ultimate Homemade Candles Guide - Candle Making For Beginners. Master Making Luxurious, Natural Candles At Home From Scratch

By Nancy Moore

Candles are relatively cheap and easy to find on the market today. Because of that, why would anyone want to make candles? For some, the pleasure comes from making something they find meaningful or useful. Others want to create a homemade product to gift a friend, colleague or family member.

This guide will take you through the journey of making candles while assuming you are an eager learner with no prior experience. Topics you’ll learn about include:

Candle types

Waxes

Wicks

Fragrances and dyes

How to make container, votive and pillar candles

By the end of this guide, you’ll be able to make three types of candles and have the knowledge and skills to make many more.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Amazing Publisher
• Release date: Jan 31, 2017
• ISBN: 9781386679516

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Introduction

Candles used to be a vital part of people’s lives, especially before the advent of electricity. People around the world would use candles to conduct activities during the night, whether that be reading, sitting up late with friends or taking care of sick family members. We needed light, and still do, at all times of the day.

Today, candles are not as necessary, but they are still a common presence in our lives, whether at birthday parties, weddings, holiday events, fine dining or prayers. People like candles because of the calm and celebratory presence they exude, because of the curiosity or reflectiveness generated by the dancing flames and because of their beautiful colors and aromas.

Candles are relatively cheap and easy to find on the market today. Because of that, why would you want to make candles? For some, the pleasure comes from making something they find meaningful or useful. Others want to create a homemade product to gift a friend, colleague or family member. Regardless of your reason, having one will make this process worthwhile.

In this guide, we’ll make candles at a relatively low cost, using a mix of appliances you already have and those provided by the industry. We’ll primarily be making them in the kitchen, or someplace with a stovetop. This guide will assume that you are an eager learner of candle making with no prior experience. It will prepare you with knowledge about candle types, wax, wicks, dyes and other basic materials needed for candle making.

I hope you will enjoy this guide and find it gives you hope to make candles.

Chapter 1 - Candle Types

When you are asked to imagine a candle, what is the first image that comes to your mind? Did you image a long stick of wax sitting on a small plate with a flame atop? Or perhaps around soap-like object burning in a cup? Candles come in a variety of shapes, containers and styles that are crafted with different methods. Several common types of