Soy Candle Making – Everything you need to know.
Hobby Feature: Soy Candles
This post includes - Making guide, Where to find supplies, Burning Tips, Recycling your candles & more.
Hi Beautiful! So, you have become obsessed with candle making like us? Candle making is such a rewarding hobby and it is ever-evolving. Trying different waxes, colours, fragrances, vessels all make an impact on your final product and determine how you can make this hobby uniquely YOU. In this post, we will be focusing on making Soy candles, but you can sub in the wax of your choice.
Here are a few guidelines and tips from our experts to help you on your candle making journey.
What you need:
A vessel, something to house your candle.
Glass Thermometer
Wicks, stickums and wick holders
Fragrance of your choice
Colour (optional)
Soy Wax
A Quick Guide:
Step 1 - Melt the Wax
Handy calculation - Volume of the container (measure by filling with water and measuring the volume of water that container holds) Use double boiling method to melt wax. Handy tip amount of dry wax weighed in grams is the same as mls
Step 2 – Prep your Vessel
Stick down the wick in the centre of the container using the stickum and hold the wick upright with your wick holder.
Step 3 – Add your Fragrance & Colour
Once the wax reaches 70 degrees transfer your wax to a jug and add your fragrance- 10% fragrance to the volume of wax (i.e 300 grams = 30mls) This is also the point you would add your colour. For marble effect swirl with a skewer directly into the vessel
Step 4 – Pour your Candle
Once you have added the fragrance and colour (if using) you can carefully pour your wax into your vessel.
Bonus step – Once your candle has semi-dried, this is where you can add petals, crystals or other beautiful objects to your candle. Less is more when it comes to petals or dried flowers.
Step 5 – Let your candle set
Wait 24 hours before burning your gorgeous creation.
Want some extra guidance? Come to one of our Candle making workshops for the full rundown on how to make your own gorgeous soy candles and other indulgent items, like bath salts, lip scrubs, body butter and more (pssst we supply everything too!).
Candle burning tips
It is unsafe to use dried lavender or any dried flower that makes its own oil as its highly flammable
On the first burn, you should always melt right to the edge
Once it’s fully melted, blow out the flame
Next time you burn the candle, it will burn evenly
To maximize the burn time, limit to burns to 4 hours at a time. This is so your candle does not get overwhelmed and the container gets too hot.
Keep your wicks trimmed
Again, ONLY use a small amount of petals and remove any large flowers or petals before burning
Recycling your candles tips
To remove old wax - Fill your vessel with hot water, wait until the wax settles on top
Disregard the wax as you see fit
Clean the vessel with hot & soapy water
Now you are ready to use the vessel to make a new candle
Follow the steps in this workshop
Ta-da cute candle ready to go
A note on candle safety, if you bedazzle your candles luxe goodies like petals & crystals It is important to keep an eye on them, as they may light unexpectantly. As the candle burns down, remove any items to keep the candle burning at its best.
Perth Candle Suppliers we recommend:
Candle Supplies - Aussie Candle Supplies
Crystal Supplies - Alyce Crystal
Flower supplies - The Range
Want to buy some beautiful already made candles? These are our recommended Perth markers.
They are also our creative partners and candle making gurus.
Cherrie Blossom Candle Co
Candle for us symbolise a moment of calm. Making yourself a cup of tea or drawing a bath and lighting your fave candle is such a beautiful ritual. Don’t underestimate the power of a small act of self love. You are worth it xx
