Making Soy Candles At Home
Soy candles is also a lot cooler (50% in fact) that other candles. This makes it clean and burns longer. Another side benefit is it’s environmental friendly ingredient. This means it’s biodegradable. What’s the ingredient you ask? Well it’s made from soy beans of course! If you want to save the earth, try to use soy candles!
The multi benefits of soy candles encourage many candle lovers to make their own candles. For one thing, its easy to make. The materials are readily available in candle stores. I am sure you will agree that one would feel some sort of pride in displaying their soy candles at home knowing that extra effort and passion were infused in the gorgeous candles.
Here’s what you need to do in order to make your very own soy candles. Just get to any craft or hobbies store near you and buy a pound of soy wax and a mason jar. You can get other containers but mason jar is the best choice.
To spice things up a bit, you might want to get fragrance oil and dye too. They make your candles colorful and smells really nice. Oh, you can get canning jar as your container of choice too. Mason jar and cannign jar is perfect for candle making because of it’s resistance to heat and crack.
The next step is where the fun begins. After you get back from home, you can now melt the wax in a container of your choice. It’s simple, really. Some people say you must melt it at certain temperature and some even recommends that you get a thermometer! That’s unnecessary frankly. Here’s my simple method. Just heat the wax in medium heat until it’s melted. It’s so easy your kids can do it. (with supervision of course)
Now, you would want to watch your wax because you’d want to put in the fragrance oil and dye when it’s completely melted. Turn off the heat first though. Just stir the fragrance oil in it until it is fully absorbed into the wax. (you can use anything to stir it) Now, add in the candle dye.
Bear in mind that dyes differ in terms of amount of needed to obtain the desired color. You therefore required reading the instructions on the label.
Prepare the Mason jar before pouring the melted wax unto it. Straighten the wick and pull it up if needed to keep it straight while the wax is poured unto the jar. Trim any excess wick to better burning. Let the wax cool for 24 to 48 hours and you are done.