9 Easy Steps to Making your Own Scented Soy Candles

Natural soy candles have grown more and more popular during the recent years. Ideal as a gift for any occasion, a nice decoration for any room, a means to provide a relaxing state of mind and a calming ambience—the list of a scented candle’s purposes can go on and on.

Buying is not the only way to acquire scented candles. If you’re a little short in your budget or you want to give personalized candles as a gift, you surely can create your own scented soy candles.

Making candles is not as hard as you think. Here is a simple step-by-step procedure of making your own scented candles in jars:

Step 1: Gather all the things that you’ll be needing such as a crock pot or a double broiler, thermometer, candle wax flakes, glass container with a lid, pre-tabbed wick, essential oils or scented candle oils, and dye chips. You can also buy a soy candle making kit to make getting everything required a little bit easier.

Step 2: Put the wax in the crock pot or double broiler and heat to 140 degrees. Always keep an eye on the temperature to be sure that the wax does not get too hot.

Step 3: Pre-heat the candle jar inside the oven on lowest setting while the wax is heating so that the wax adheres to the glass better.

Step 4: Upon reaching 140 degrees, pour the scented oil of your choice. Use strong scents if you want to make richly scented candles. To create a highly scented candle, the best thing to do is to use about 3-5 ounces of scented oils for every 3 pounds of wax.

Step 5: After mixing it thoroughly, add your dye chips or flakes and stir. It’s not necessary for you to choose a color that matches the scent like blue for an ocean breeze scent. It’s all right to be creative and choose whatever color you like. This adds to the element of surprise and personalized quality of your candle.

Step 6: Take your jar out of the oven and insert the metal disk base and the wick into a little melted wax and place into the center of the container. Let sit for about 1 minute

Step 7: Pour the liquid soy candle wax into the container. Leave a space at the top of the jar for the lid to fit.

Step 8: Allow the candle to completely cool at room temperature for at least 3 hours. After it has cooled, some of the wax may have sunken in the middle. Reheat the remaining wax in your pot and pour into the sunken gap. Or if you do not have any remaining wax, take a blow dryer or heat gun and warm the wax on the top of the candle until it melts into the sunken area.

Step 9: Again, let it cool down and then trim the wick to about a quarter inch. Feel free to carve designs on your candle or adorn it with beads or jewels. Voila, you’ve created a wonderful soy candle masterpiece.

Other tips:

• For creativity and variety, use containers of different kinds and colors for your candles. Just make sure you only use heat resistant jars.
• Use only high quality soy wax.
• Never use lead core wick because its lead content may alter the scent of the candle and it is not healthy for you. It’s advisable to opt for cotton or zinc wicks.

• Materials for making soy candles are widely available online.

Making your own soy candles has many advantages. Not only will you be able to save a lot but you can also turn this rewarding hobby into a profitable business. However, if you have no time to make your own candles, good quality scented candles are available widely from accredited suppliers online.