Making Candles At Home With Essential Oils

Batches i add roughly 200 drops of essential oils to each batch of wax.

Making candles at home with essential oils. How to measure the proper amount of essential oils. Whatever essential oils you choose for candle making make sure they are of high quality. Essential oils are a great natural way to scent your home or office with soft scents that won t trouble those who cannot tolerate strong scents like chemical based candles. Let it stay for about 2 hours.

Place the candle in the refrigerator to harden. Expect 20 drops of essential oil per ml. Craft stores sell scents specifically for candle making but you can also scent your candles with essential oils. I wanted to mimic the scented candles i used to buy frequently from boutique stores and a from a certain chain of soap and candle stores that resides in malls across north america.

Guide to making essential oil candles 1. Place the saucepan of water on the stove and bring the water to a boil. I would then measure out 225g of soy wax for melting to get the perfect amount of wax. Making candles at home allows you to choose the scent and appearance of your candles.

Another great reason to make your own candles at home is to avoid paraffin. After the candle hardens trim the wick to 1 inch and light up to enjoy. This creates a scent that is pleasant strong and lasts through multiple uses of your candle. While the water is boiling go ahead and put the beeswax and coconut oil into the coffee can or metal pitcher you ve bought especially for this purpose.

Even with this much essential oil in your candle you can still expect a pretty mild fragrance once candle wax has set. If i wanted to make 3 candles i would multiply 75 x 3 to get 225g. The trick to using essential oils is adding the oils when the wax is hot but not so hot that the oils evaporate. Here s a complete guide to making candles with essential oils so you don t make all the mistakes i did.

This is the point where you will want to add your luxurious essential oils for these candles i ve used sweet orange essential oil it s a relatively cheap essential oil to buy and a perfect scent for a candle. The ratio for essential oil candles is 3 oz. I m not actually sure why the scent of essential oils is so mild in soy candles. But it didn t take me long to realize that as.

Now your wax should be nice and melted. You will need 6 10 essential oils to make a nicely scented soy candle. Solids to 35 40 drops of essential oils. When i first began making candles at home i did use fragrance oils to scent them.

This creates a scent that is pleasant strong and lasts through multiple uses of your candle. Since i make my candles in 2 lb.