Gel candles are easy to make and give beautiful. Their popularity pair with the simplicity of their production is the hobby took a second source of income for many mothers to stay home and have craftsmen that a unique product. Before you start your gel candles, you do your research and you find a reputable supplier of gel wax. It is the most important ingredient in your candles, and should be your top priority. Local craft stores may not carry a high quality gel so check before you spend moneyon an inferior product that damages the manufacture of candles effort.

Include a word about before. Embeds are part of what is unique gel candles. Abandoned by aquarium scenes shells are embedded in the air, the icing on the cake. You can not any object in your candle by melting. Ceramics, glass, wax-shaped figures, tin and shine. The rule of thumb is all that non-inflammatory may be used as an embed.

Put your ingredients andTools

Gather all your tools in one central location to make it easier to work for you. Preferably, you will want to be near your heat source. This could be your kitchen or a room with a hot plate. Do not use the microwave to melt your gel. It can catch fire when it reaches its flash point, and there must be an accurate temperature for the production of candles

You will need:

* Large glass measuring container - this is your pour melted wax into your containers;
* Sources of heat orElectric Kettle Presto: Use Melt your gel;
* Thermometer: Your gel has to be melted at 225 ° C, candy thermometers work great;
* Metal Utensils: Do not move your gel with utensils made of wood, which causes blisters;
* Spits: Metal, for positioning and moving the embedded objects;
* Glass containers: These are your candle containers, they can mugs, champagne flutes, votive cups and much more. The only requirement is that it will not be made flammable or meltableMaterial;
Gel: gel wax candle in the density are required for your project, are the higher density gels for candles, which include containing used. Lower density gels are great for plain paper, scented candles.
* Essential oils: You need to be made for gel candles, and a flash point of 170 ° C.
* Liquid or block of color dye: Again, sure it is suitable for gel candles. Do not use colored fabrics, colored pencils or food coloring.
* Embeds: Use your imagination
* Candle Wicks - YouYou should before the pre-waxed tabbed wicks for the best solution.

Let's Get Started

Now that you have all your supplies have been collected, let's have some fun. Please note that you are only limited by your imagination. Each candle is a work of art that is unique to the manufacturer or the person that you do it for. Follow these simple steps to your masterpieces.

1. Melt gel: Use your candy thermometer to get and achieve the desired temperature of 225 ° C. If you use a glass cupto melt, place it in your oven to melt. The Presto Pot is great, but does not rely on the meter, with a thermometer. The gel will take a little while until the melt. While doing this, you can depend on further steps.
2. Wash your containers and dry them thoroughly. There should be no residue or oils your candle gel wax cloud.
3. Imagine your embeddable objects and your wicks and they have around your container.
4. After your wax is melted, if you focus on your wax color,with a toothpick to add a small amount of color. Stir well and drip a small amount on a piece of white paper to see the result. To add scent, add it now.
5. Secure your wick at the bottom of the container with a small dab of hot glue. Try not to use too much hot glue as it can make your candle dark.
6. Fill your container partially with hot wax.
7. Include your way you want to position your metal skewers, where you want them.
8. Top-offthe container with wax.
9. Allow the gel.
10. Trim wick to 1 / 4 "from the top.

Bubble Tips

To prevent bubbles, stir Gel Gel pour slowly and slowly. This will take practice. If you have a lot of bubbles after pouring, you can use a heat gun to remove them. If they appear after the candle has settled, you can push the candle in a warm oven, to remove them. Bubbles can be decorative if you make a candle, champagne or aquarium.

Gel candles are a simple, inexpensive means oflet your creative juices flowing. Sharing your talent with friends and family makes gift to so much more sense, and who knows, your idea for a candle, maybe the next product that has taken the world by storm.

There are different types of candles you can make. All you need is follow the simple steps in basic manufacture of candles and add a little creativity. The different types of candles are discussed below.

The first is the most common form of a gel candles. It consists of gelled mineral oils. The appearance is transparent and it feels soft, like Jello. This type is placed in a container.

There are also container candles in a heatproof container, such as cans or castGlass and then it is burned inside the container, if used.

Pillar candle is extracted to form an ad then poured into a rule with a diameter of about 2 to 3 mm. So they have 1 or more wicks, but they are detached.

Votive candles are small and cylindrical, about 2.5 cm in height and 1 to 2 inches in diameter. This is mounted inside a votive candle holders to obtain the wax. This is due to liquefy it, when they are illuminated.

Taper candles are one of themore common varieties. They seem thin, wide at the base, and they tend to reach the top narrow. They are about 6 cm up to 18 in length and they are placed in a candlestick. They are also called "dinner candles.

Tea light candles are filled in a small cylindrical types of plastic or metal cup. It is about 1 up to 1.5 cm and 1 to 2 inches in diameter.

Floating candles are poured into a mold with various shapes, and it is to be filled in a bowlwith water. They tend to float by adding a special touch when they are illuminated. This is since the wax, is listed as buoyant.

Wickless candles are usually on a heat-resistant container, as they do not wick cast at all. This is, by placing it on a warmer, to have released the fragrance without the fire.

Tips in Candle Making

When it comes to the wick to be used, the length and size depend on the size of the candle you make in the planning. If you have a large wick, yourCandle tends to melt faster. If you have a very small wick, it is not at a good light. This means that the size of the wick should be proportional to the size of your candle.

In the election, and the positioning of your wick, you must use an appropriate size. This should be after the planned diameter of the candle you are making. The recommended size is 6 times to 8 or 0.5 inches, 12 to 14 fold, or 1 inch, 16 to 18 fold or 2 inches, and 20 to 24 fold, or 3Inches.

Make sure wick, the larger diameters that do not melt easily and use it. Good examples are paraffin and beeswax.

To maintain a straight wick in the central part of your candle, it is advisable to tie the end of a stick placed over the container or shape.

The different types of wicks are the best for Square Braided Wicks moldings, passing and container candles; Metalcore Wicks best for container candles and wicks Flat Braided best for conicalCandles.
When it comes to color or stain of the wax candles, it is not advisable to use the colors used for cosmetics or soap. This is because it clogs the wick. As with paint or dye to your candles to him a personal note, it is best to use, concentrated liquid colors or be sold. If you are in the color of candles of batches, it is best to use to concentrated liquid. A single drop can actually paint about 1 pound of wax.

When dyeing liquid wax, make sure that the candleWax opaque when it is still solid, or perhaps even before it was melted. It will be sad when it has melted and is prepared, dyed or stained. This becomes clear when the melted wax hardens as it cools. It will fade with their opaque color.

Safety tips for candle making

In any case, you should leave the process of allocation of melting wax without someone to watch over them. This is because that was highly flammable and can cause fires.

If there would be fire,Do not use water, so you drop it. The best way is with a fire extinguisher nearby.

Never heat wax to temperatures above 100 ° C.

Make sure you use a reliable thermometer, for monitoring the temperature of the wax.

Place the wax directly on the fire while melting. It is best to use a wax melter or double broiler on for this process.

When dealing with the container or vessel with liquid wax, always use potholders to avoid that unwantedAccidents.

For this second review article, we will continue to experiment with the art of making candles with "The Complete Book & Candle Maker Kit", an original Lark kit that I recently bought. Ready? OK ... Let's get started!

1. Prepare the wick

We have an opening for the wick in the center top of our rubber shell Make-back beehive shape.

Around the hole, a carpet on which the needle-thread the wick or even an awl or icepick can do the job would.

You couldNeed to traverse a pair of pliers to the tip of the wick. Let 3 / 4 inch of the wick protruded the tip of the tool.

Easier said than done!

Firstly, I never managed to thread the wick in the hole of the needle, I had selected from my sewing kit. I must admit, it was not a carpet needle, but a small hole book. Guess I was suffering. Therefore, a small metal back in the toolbox found in the garage to pick. ;-)

Great! The hole is made. The wick is now.

Have you enoughWick at the bottom of your candle so that you keep the wick around a pencil wind (or dipping anchors contained in the kit), just when you're pouring the wax.

2. They are creating a form

Standard size drinking glasses, plastic containers or cans will be available as a form of work.

I chose a drinking glass and delicate head of the tool to install and plugs wrapped up the wick on the immersion.

Check the manual, I noticed it called for acool-water poured onto the form, after the wax to cool, so I grabbed a large wok-like dish.

3. Pour the Candle

There is no reference to the instructions on how much wax to melt the wax melter, so I decided to melt, the volume of a cup and it turned out, it was okay as I had a little bit extra.

Check the temperature of the wax, it should be around 190 degrees Fahrenheit. It is now time for the fragrance and color to add color. I scrapped the vanilla barwith a knife and had a couple of layers dip into the melting pot and has a yellow color chip.

Pour the candle. Would be a good idea to wear rubber gloves to protect your hands from the heat.

Reserve some wax for the topping-off process. If necessary, adjust the wick to ensure that it is properly centered in the mold.

After 2 or 3 minutes, rather than ensuring the tool into the cool water bath and that there was no tip.

As you can see in the picture above, my mold-Tip! and I lost a fewGrowing in the cool-water bath.

But is is to think about what I should have done, pour water into the glass before the onset of the mold and pour the wax. Would not that have required great dish!

Would not it have been easier? I would have avoided manipulation of form, after the wax was poured. If you have any comments please do not hesitate to publish in the area below the comment.

After two hours I took the candle from the cold bath and separated the excess wax aggregated to the candle.With scissors, cut the excess length of the wick at the bottom.

4. Top of the candle

The wax has reduced significantly during cooling and carved a well at the bottom of the candle. These must be filled with liquid wax. How long does it take to make good to the cases depends on the size of the candle. Best to check each 10 minutes or so.

5. Remove the finished candle from the mold

After two hours I took the candle from the mold. It turned outslightly.

If you do not begin to wait so long for another candle you can experiment with shapes found.

There is a section in the book (p. 32) that talks about these forms, you can find in the house. For example: milk carton, cardboard juice cans, rigid plastic containers (shampoo bottles), cocoa containers. The results are unpredictable, but there is little attempt to melt, you can always lose a candle. :-)

6. Takes care of your shape

Pour boiling waterto form, to remove excess wax, but never in a depression!

Go out and bring your water with you.

Voila! here we are with a cute small hive candle.

It has a really fun experience, have been creating this candle.

The draw back I would point out, there are at least two types of kits have been.

Also, although the description is on the box states that this candle can kit for 10 candles with the 3.5 pounds of wax around a bitlittle guidance would have appreciated in terms of measurements, but I think the fact that it can be melted down again when it is done too much volume, it is irrelevant.

A good point is that it can be done without a mess.

Stay tuned for Part 3, in which we create taper candles with this easy and fun Candle Making Kit: The Complete Book & Candle Maker Kit.