The Art of Making Scented Candles – 4 Steps to Aromatic Beauty

Posted on March 10, 2010
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Aromatic candles will enhance the ambience of a room. If you are a romantic person, you will enjoy the warm aroma of scented candles. Your guests will be intoxicated with calm and well being. Also, the light of almost any candle enhances the elegance of a room.

The warm fragrance of a scented candle will lift your spirts, even when the candle is not lit. So when you come home tired and worn out from the day, the presence of the perfumed candles tend to unwind you and make you feel uplifted.

Scented candles are wonderful gifts for any occasion and/or season, especially when made by your own hands.

1. Pick Your Candle Making Fragrance

Fragrance oil is available in virtually any craft shop. You may also shop for it on the web. I would suggest that you opt for fragrance oils rather than going for inexpensive alcohol or water based fragrances. Your wax mix will be oil based, so your fragrance should also be oil based. Why? Oil and water do not mix so a water based perfume will not mix properly with the oil based wax.

2. Choose 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. You should decide on the fragrance intensity of your candles before selecting your wax. For instance, wax with less density holds less fragrance than higher density wax.

3. The Process of Making Scented Candles

Now that we’ve talked about waxes, let’s discuss the method for creating scented candles.

1st step is to melt your wax. I suggest using a double boiler. Which means put the wax in a small pot. Then put that container inside a slightly larger pot containing water. Next step – heat the water. Use a thermometer so as not to burn the wax. Maintain the temperature at a constant 170-180 degrees F.

When the wax is melted, put a wick in the mold & take the wax from the heat source. Next add the fragrance oil that you’ve selected. One ounce fragrance oil to 1 pound wax will create a 6% fragrance. 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 task left is to let it the mold cool before removing your candle.

Congratulations, well done!

4. Experiment as You Move Along

Start experimenting and you will soon become an expert in all aspects of making candles. By using different fragrances and colors, you will perfect the candle making technique and thoroughly enjoy the process.

It’s a great feeling to award your friends with a scented homemade candle knowing that they will find the fragrant essences both relaxing and invigorating.

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