I’ve always love having candles around, especially in the winter time. Candles add a nice ambiance to a room. The sight of a candle flickering makes me feel comfortable and at ease.
Over the past years, I’ve been spending lots of money on soy and palm candles. Most of the time I become disappointed with the scent. So I decided it’s time to make my own soy candles.
Mine are very lightly scented or unscented. This one I scented with blackberry fragrance oil. I also use a lead free cotton wick.
Although I would love to use beeswax candles, they are just too expensive. In our family, beeswax are usually used for religious or special occasions. But hand rolled beeswax candles can be used anytime and they are lots of fun to make and use. They are also very clean burning.
Below are some benefits to burning soy candles:
* Soy wax is very clean burning and produce less soot then paraffin wax.
* It also burns longer then paraffin wax.
* Soy is vegetable based and biodegradable.
* Non-toxic, safe to have around for children and pets.
* In case of spills or to reuse containers, simply clean with soap and water.
Vermont Soy I got for around $5 per container. Tropical Citrus did smell nice, until halfway through the scent got really strange, even started to trigger a headache for me. And this has been happening to me with many other soy candles too. Even the guava scented ones from Pacifica Candles. I may just melt them all down and start adding more soy wax to them. Just to “dilute” the scents. Since I would hate to throw out any good wax!
Supplies I got over the summer. Soy wax are great! Burns lovely and clean. I either scent my candles with a fruity scent or essential oils. Unscented candles are also good too, I find they can help clean the air just as nice.
Also enjoy burning these hand rolled beeswax candle too. You roll them thicker or thin, but you have to use the right wick size for it to burn proper. They make great birthday candles and has a natural honey scent.
Caution: Never leave a candle unattended - as we always hear each year about house fires cause by candle accidents.
11:36 pm on December 3rd, 2009
I like to burn candles during the holidays also, it’s very relaxing and I kept most of the ones that are almost gone. This is definitely a good way to reuse what you already have also.
I like to know if you have much success in adding more wax into the old canister.
1:48 am on December 5th, 2009
Hi Nye,
I have successfully made 3 new candles with all the leftover wax from the past years. The process is simple, it’s finding the right wick that is tricky. I may have to make a special post about that later.