Welcome Candle Maker!

by Kev on 1st February, 2011

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I’d like to welcome you to our Candle Making website. This site contains recipes, instructions, advice and information about candle making aimed both at experienced candle makers and newcomers to this creative craft.

We also feature news about promotions and new products on our shop site MakingYourOwnCandles.co.uk which supplies professional-quality kits and materials that can’t be found anywhere else.

We  look forward to hearing from you!

Peta & Kev Partner

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Christmas Candle Scent

by Kev on 28th December, 2011

30ml of scent – enough to scent around 600g wax

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Article source: http://www.makingyourowncandles.co.uk/christmas-candle-scent/

Make 2 flavours of candle with one kit!

This kit contains everything you need (except basic kitchen equipment) to make 10scented and coloured votive candles with up to 15 hours burn time each. You can then reuse the moulds to make further candles using our low-cost refill kit.

Whichever you select, you can look forward to a home filled with a pleasant, relaxing aroma from a candle with a gentle, warm flame.


What’s different about our kits?

We’ve developed these kits by using them to create candles ourselves. Because of this, we know that all of our kits work reliably in the real world, producing excellent, consistent, results whilst being easy for beginners to use.

Our kits arenotmass-manufactured, plastic toy kits: this isrealcandle-making equipment and ingredients aimed at people who want to learn how to do it properly. They also make theideal giftto introduce a loved one to the creative world of candle making.

Unlike any other supplier, we include beeswax in our kits because this hardens your candles and makes them burn longer. It also makes the scent of the candle a little sweeter. Just add 10% beeswax to your paraffin wax to get the ideal mixture.

Clickhereto see the instructions we include with our kits.

Each kit contains:

  • 2 x metal moulds
  • 450g Blended Paraffin Wax
  • 50g Beeswax (hardens your candles and makes them burn longer)
  • 1.5m Wick (plenty to spare in case you want to experiment)
  • 12 metal tabs (for fixing the wick to the bottom of the mould: includes 2 spares)
  • Pipette for measuring scent oil
  • Wick pins for keeping the wick straight while the wax dries
  • Blutack for sticking the wick to the wick pins
  • 2 x Glass votive holders
  • 2 x candle dye: Chocolate and Cream
  • 2 x Scented Oil: Chocolate and Vanilla
  • A Candlemaking thermometer for precise measurement
  • Full illustrated instructions

What’s the difference between this and the Professional kit?

This kit includes 2 candle dyes and 2 scents so you can make a combination of variations. There is plenty of each to enable you to go on and make another ten candles just by buying some more wax, wicks and tabs.

The kit also includes a candlemaking thermometer so you can get the temperature exactly right for perfect results and 2 glass votive holders to display your finished creations.


This kit is packaged in a brown box containing fushia tissue paper

DESPATCH: We aim to despatch all items on the working day following any orders placed by 4.30pm.

Questions? Email us at peta@makingyourowncandles.co.uk

Article source: http://www.makingyourowncandles.co.uk/deluxe-candle-making-kit-chocolate-and-vanilla/

Christmas Candle Scent

September 9, 2011

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BULK Flower Tart Candle Making Kit

September 9, 2011

This kit contains enough materials to make at least 50of these cute little flower shaped candles, also known as wax tart candles. They can also be made without the wick and used in oil burners as Wax Tarts. Select your favourite colour to make your perfect flower candles. These candles make a beautiful table decoration [...]

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Experimenting with Beeswax Candles – straight from the Bee!

August 7, 2011
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I’m a newcomer to candle-making and Peta thought others might be interested to hear my story!  So here goes! I fell into this almost accidentally when my husband recently started beekeeping and he began presenting me with beeswax as a byproduct of extracting the honey!  So I thought ‘beeswax candles and honey – that’s Christmas [...]

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Flower Tart Candle Making Kit: FREE SHIPPING

August 1, 2011

This kit contains enough materials to make 25 of these cute little flower shaped candles, also known as wax tart candles. They can also be made without the wick and used in oil burners as Wax Tarts. These candles make beautiful table decorations and room scenters and they also float which opens up a whole [...]

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2 Metal Flower/Tart Moulds

July 8, 2011

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Are we doing a good job?

July 7, 2011
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We need your help! If you’ve bought from us since we launched our shop in January 2010 then I hope you had a good experience – we get regular emails from customers delighted with their products and excited about what they’re making with them. Every now and then, we also get emails from customers with [...]

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Our first candle making craft fair

June 20, 2011

It started off so well. Peta and I had booked a pitch at the Summer Craft Fair at Port Solent on the south coast as our first attempt at selling direct to the public. We chose that one because it’s fairly local to us and we’d been as punters several times. It always seemed well [...]

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Flower Tart Candle Making Mini Kit

June 14, 2011

This kit contains enough materials to make 10 of these cute little flower shaped candles, also known as wax tart candles. They can also be made without the wick and used in oil burners as Wax Tarts. Select your favourite colour to make your perfect flower candles. These candles make a beautiful table decoration – [...]

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