Candle Making

How to choose the right candle making kit

February 6, 2012
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MakingYourOwnCandles offers a range of candle making kits – how do you choose which one to buy? Here are a few questions that might help you decide: 1: Do you want a great general introduction to candle making? If so, our Professional Candle Making kits are a good choice. With these kits you can make [...]

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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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Recycled candles: the first results

February 14, 2011
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We’ve been researching and experimenting with creating new candles out of old by recycling the bits and pieces we all have in a cupboard corner. Once we’ve perfected the techniques and burn-tested the results we’ll be releasing a Make Do and Mend kit which will allow you to make candles by reusing old ones. As [...]

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Candlemaking with a romantic twist

February 1, 2011
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Romantic devil that she is, Peta’s been working hard on a new kit for creating candles for setting the mood on Valentine’s Day (or, indeed, for any romantic occasion). The kit is great value and includes the materials and equipment needed for making 5 container candles in glass jars so you can either buy the [...]

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The Christmas Candle Making Season is on!

November 16, 2010
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Our production line is in full swing putting together kits for the Christmas ordering season. Margaret, Kirsty, Dene, Lucy, Heather and Dizzy the dog (—->)  have been beavering away putting components together so that when Peta assembles each kit, she has everything to hand. Every one of our kits, you see, is assembled by us [...]

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The Pillar Candle Kit is finally here!

October 26, 2010
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It’s taken the best part of 6 weeks to find the perfect combination of wick, wax and mould for producing consistently fantastic pillar candles. We’ve now got a house-full of failed experiments but all this work was worthwhile because the end results are excellent. The pillar candles produced by this kit are made of Eco-Soya [...]

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Soy Candle Wax arrives!

October 5, 2010
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When we set up MakingYourOwnCandles, we chose a special blended paraffin wax for our moulded candles that includes all the required additives to enable you to make candles easily and consistently. Our paraffin wax is a product of the petrochemical industry and is entirely free of harmful substances, it’s also biodegradable and doesn’t add to [...]

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Making Witches’ Hat Candles for Halloween

September 22, 2010
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This month we have contributed to the new MakeScents Magazine for the first time. Our project, found on page 68 gives step by step instructions on how to create some great candles for Halloween in the shape of Witches’ Hats. You may have some spare paraffin wax at home to have a go at making [...]

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Making Pillar Candles

September 22, 2010
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We’re testing Pillar Candles! When we launched MakingYourOwnCandles in 2009, we chose to include moulds for making votive candles as this meant that you could get lots of practice creating the candles most often used in the home. However, since then we’ve added Beeswax candles and, most recently, Christmas Advent Candles and Dinner Candle Kit. [...]

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Christmas Advent Candle Making Kits Now In Stock!

September 5, 2010
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A couple of weeks ago I announced that we were working on a Candle Making Kit that would allow you to make Advent Candles. The product development process is now finished, the kits have been tested and we’ve written easy to follow illustrated instructions so that you can achieve consistent results every time. The standard [...]

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