Candle Making

Making heart shaped candles for a romantic night in!

February 7, 2013

Love is in the air, and we’re all fixed for a romantic night in here at Making Your Own Candles! We picked up some silicone moulds, intended for making cupcakes and ice cubes in, from our local £1 shop and made cute little heart shaped candles in them. 200g blended paraffin wax made 2 larger [...]

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How to make container candles – a child friendly candle making recipe

April 23, 2012
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Kids like crafts and, for a while now, we’ve offered child-friendly kits for making candles with beeswax sheets. However, the candles we see all around us tend to be container candles. These are usually created by melting container wax in a “double boiler” and pouring it into the glass jar, tea cup or whatever. This [...]

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How to make Egg Shell Candles

March 29, 2012
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We had Ham, Egg and Chips for dinner last night and instead of throwing the egg shells in the bin I kept them to make cute little Easter candles in. I washed the shells and put them to one side to dry. Then I sat them upright in the old egg carton. Meanwhile, I melted [...]

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How to make a spring bulb container candle

March 6, 2012
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Making this container candle with a twist is pretty simple, as long as you follow the steps! This candle is actually two in one: a flower tart embedded within a container candle and you can experiment by adding one scent to the flower tart and a different one to the container. Here’s what you need [...]

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How to make waxed wicks

March 4, 2012
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You’ve probably noticed that many of the candles you buy in the shops have a wick that’s been prewaxed. This is because the vast majority of them are made on an industrial scale without a wick. They’re either made in a mould containing a spike which leaves a hole up the middle of the candle [...]

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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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