Making Scented Candles – 4 Tips for Creating Captivating Scented Masterpieces

Scented candles increase the ambience of any room in your home. If you are a soft, romantic person, you will enjoy the aroma of scented candles. You and your guests will be treated to a sense of calm and well being. Also, the light of almost any candle enhances the elegance of a room.

The subtle fragrance of scented candles will pep you up, even while the candle is unlit. 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.

Scented candles are great gifts for every season and all occasions; especially when they are hand crafted by yours truely.

1. Choose Your Candle Making Fragrance

Fragrance oil is sold in most craft shops. You can also shop for it online. I would suggest that you opt for fragrance oils rather than going for cheap water or alcohol based fragrances. Since your wax mix will be oil based, use a fragrance that is also be oil based. Why? As oil & water do not mix, a water based perfume tends not to mix with oil based wax.

2. Pick Your Wax

The basics of making a scented candle 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 instance, wax with less density holds less fragrance than higher density wax.

3. The Process of Making Scented Candles

Now we’ll go through the process of creating aromatic candles.

The first job is to melt the wax. For this purpose, a double boiler can be used. That means put the wax in a small pot. Now place that container into a slightly larger pot partially filled with water. Next step – heat the water. Use a thermometer to ensure the wax is not burnt. The temperature must be kept between 170 &180 degrees F.

Once your wax has melted, insert a wick in the mold & take the wax away from the heat source. Now add the fragrance oil that you have chosen. 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. Be aware that greater amounts of fragrance will cause the candle to burn out sooner owing to higher liquid density of the candle.

Now pour your melted wax/fragrance mix into it’s mold. The only job left is to let it cool before removing your candle from it’s mold.

Congratulations! You’re finished!

4. Experiment as You Go

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 award your friends with a scented candle that is homemade knowing that they will find the fragrance both relaxing and invigorating.