Hobbies are there to change the monotonous everyday life and provide a very special meaning and beauty to life. Browsing through interesting pages on the internet, I found an idea and fell in love with my hobby. Since I adore small, big, fragrant, colorful candles, I decided to make them myself.
I found the procedure:
Making candles in a home workshop can be a fun hobby, regardless of whether you make candles to give to someone or just for your own enjoyment. The first copies may not work best for you, but with a little experimentation and personal creativity, after a few attempts, you will be able to make the candle exactly the way you wanted and you will not regret the time you invested in this hobby. To make candles you will need the following material: wax (paraffin or natural, can be obtained in pharmacies and beekeeping equipment stores), wick (it can be bought in textile, thread and upholstery stores), candle mold (anything can be used here: plastic bottles, cookie cutters, cardboard toilet paper rollers, choose yourself), wax melting utensils (old kitchen utensils that you no longer use for food preparation), thermometer (the best would be laboratory, graduated to 100 degrees Celsius), smell, colors. To begin with, you also need to decide which wax to use; paraffin waxes are most often used, so in this text there will be the most talk about such candles. Beeswax can also be appreciated, there is even a way to make a candle without melting.
Fill the bowl halfway with water and heat it on the stove, and put a smaller one in it, in which you melt the wax. There should be a hole in the bottom of the candle molds. If you do that with those paper towel rollers, make the bottom yourself, again from some harder cardboard or plywood and similar materials, and then drill a hole in the middle of the bottom. Cut the wick 10 centimeters longer than the length of the candle. Tie a knot at one end of the wick, then thread it through the hole in the bottom of the mold. Tie the wick to the top of the mold with a pencil or similar oblong object and make sure the wick is centered (in the middle of the mold). If the mold is made of cardboard or plastic, then you will not heat the wax to a temperature higher than 55 degrees Celsius so that the dish does not deform from the heat. If your mold is made of metal, then you can freely heat the wax to a temperature of 80 to 85 degrees, which is also optimal for casting candles. If the wax has melted, bubbles may appear on the surface, and if it is too cold, bubbles will appear inside the candle. Gently pour the wax into the mold. In the case of multi-layered colored candles, each ring is poured on the previously cooled and hardened one.
If you pour candles in pots, small cans, glasses and similar containers, then it would be desirable to dip the wick in the melted wax in advance, cut it to the desired length, and then center it in the pot again with a pencil. Cool the poured candles for at least 12 hours.
Interesting transparent candles can also be made in glass cups. Fill two thirds of the glass with water, and then fill it with oil almost to the top. Cut a circle out of a piece of plastic bottle and drill a hole in the middle. Pass a piece of wick through it and place a plastic circle on the transition between water and oil. The water candle is ready to use.
Let your imagination run wild and make your own scented candle out of it. May the Christmas holidays be happy and fragrant.
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It's nice that you reminded us of all this, the holidays are just around the corner.