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How to choose the right candle making kit

Kev — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:53:36 +0000

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 10 “votive” sized candles with a 15 hour burn time. What’s a “votive” – it’s a candle often used in churches (hence the name), somewhat similar to 4-5 tealights stacked on top of each other. Looked at another way, they’re like mini-pillar candles. By using a Pro kit, you get 10 scented, coloured candles and you get to develop your skills using moulds.

Alternatively, our Flower Tart Candle Making Kit allows you to make 25 delightful flower shaped candles.

2: Are you interested in making container candles?

We have a range of container candle making kits: including mini jam-jars, plain glass and “supply your own” kits where you can use any heat-proof and non-flammable container. Container candles are a little simpler than moulded candles and the containers can be reused. Container candles can include scent and dye.

3: Do you want to make LOTS of candles? Do you want to make them for the lowest possible cost per candle?

Our bulk candle making kits have proven extremely popular since we introduced them in 2010. These kits allow you to make up to 40 container candles either using the glass containers we supply or you can provide your own. Tea cups, mugs, jars and tins make excellent containers and all our kits contain complete instructions.

4: Do you want the easiest to make candles? Kid safe?

Then choose our Beeswax candle kit. This kit includes pure beeswax sheets made in the UK which you simply roll up tightly around a wick and decorate.

5: Do you want to make Pillar Candles?

We have an easy to use pillar candle kit that creates candles that are 4 inches wide by 6 inches high. The kit uses eco-soya wax which gives a lovely lustrous finish and burns beautifully. Perfect for the mantelpiece.

6: Do you want to treat yourself or someone else?

Our Deluxe Candle Making Kits are the ultimate candle making experience. They include everything from the professional kit plus extra bits and pieces including a thermometer, extra scent and dye and containers. It doesn’t get better than that!

7: How about experimenting?

If you want to have a go at making your own candles either using home-made moulds (for example our pumpkin recipe) or by pouring into your own containers, we have a range of wax and wick kits to suit.

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Welcome Candle Maker!

Kev — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 09:47:44 +0000

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

Kev — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 03:31:42 +0000

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

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

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Deluxe Candle Making Kit: Chocolate and Vanilla

Kev — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 16:10:29 +0000

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/

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Christmas Candle Scent

Kev — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 10:29:45 +0000

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BULK Flower Tart Candle Making Kit

Kev — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 10:29:42 +0000

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 – unscented candles are best for the dining table so that you can savour the flavour of your food! They also float.

This is a bulk version of our Flower Tart Candle Making Kit which allows you to make 25 scented candles. It is perfect if you want to make a lot of candles in one go, or for groups to use, perhaps in schools or clubs.

Find out how easy they are to make by taking a look at the instructions.

What’s different about our kits?

Our kits are not mass-manufactured, plastic toy kits: this is real candle-making equipment and ingredients aimed at people who want to learn how to do it properly. They also make the ideal gift to introduce a loved one to the creative world of candle making.

Each kit contains:

10 x metal moulds (reuseable)
1kg Blended Paraffin Wax
60 tealight pre-assembled wick and tabs
10g Dye
Full illustrated instructions

This kit is packaged in a plain brown box.

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/bulk-flower-tart-candle-making-kit/

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Experimenting with Beeswax Candles – straight from the Bee!

Mary — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 17:17:41 +0000

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 presents sorted for this year’!

Backtracking slightly, when I say my husband is ‘presenting me with beeswax’, don’t imagine the nice clean ‘beads’ you can buy. My wax comes in a big, dirty lump!

This is the process: the bees ‘cap’ off the hexagonal cells when they’ve filled them with honey and these wax caps have to be sliced off to allow the honey to be extracted. These cappings obviously have honey attached so my husband heats it all up and as it cools the wax rises to the top as a hard layer, leaving the honey underneath.

We then give this wax layer a few days outside, turned over so the bees and wasps can clean off the honey that stuck to the underside – it’s the most efficient way of cleaning it!

This ‘big lump’ of wax still has bits and bobs of goodness knows what in it, bits of bee I suspect! So I heat it up (two saucepan method), and pour off the nice clean wax onto saucers or take-away containers, leaving the impurities behind, which very helpfully sink and settle on the bottom of the pan!

That’s how I get my beeswax ready for making candles. Once cooled it’s a rich golden yellow colour.

My first candle-making session produced a small container and a tea-light, using 100% beeswax and a wick from my daughter’s old craft box that was lurking in the attic! They looked great, but didn’t burn very well, in that the wax didn’t melt to the edge of the containers and the flame got smaller and smaller as the wick got swamped by molten wax.

That disappointment led me to the internet and this site, on the hunt for tips and equipment. Now, with Peta’s helpful suggestions, I’m hooked!

I’m doing lots of experiments!

The beeswax on its own seems to be too ‘dense’ and the wicks seem to burn faster than the very slowly melting/evaporating wax can keep up with. Result – a teeny tiny, itty bitty, barely noticeable flame hanging on for a few hours before finally succumbing and drowning!

So, I’ve been trying votives with different ratios of paraffin wax to beeswax:

100% paraffin wax - burned almost too well! Had to keep blowing it out and trimming the wick to reduce flame size!

50/50 – still too ‘dense’, flame tiny and struggling.

75% paraffin wax / 25% beeswax – best so far! The first lighting needed a bit of fiddling but subsequent lightings were brilliant, lasted almost twice as long as 100% paraffin wax, and it left the container totally clean!

I’ve also tried a pillar, using the blue plastic mould for sale here, with 150g paraffin wax and 50g beeswax. This has been the most successful of all! I was amazed at how easily it came out of the mould and it has an intriguing two-tone effect where I did the second pour! It’s burning really well with a lovely flame, and melting to the edges with no hint of tunnelling.

I’m going to try increasing the beeswax, little by little, as I want to use as much of that as I can in each candle, but I’m confident I can get good results. And I’ve got till Christmas to get it right, with loads to enjoy testing along the way!

I haven’t added any colour so far, as even with only using a quarter beeswax, it still retains a lovely warm golden yellow colour.

I’m thinking about scent now, because while the beeswax itself has a pleasant scent, it doesn’t appear to transfer to the candles and certainly there’s none while burning.

Thanks for reading, if you’ve got this far! I hope you’ve found it interesting.

Mary

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Flower Tart Candle Making Kit: FREE SHIPPING

Kev — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 19:27:07 +0000

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 new set of possibilities!

To order, simply select the colour and scent to make your perfect candles before adding this item to your basket.

And remember, you’ll be able to reuse the moulds to make lots more candles with one of our low cost refill kits.

Find out how easy they are to make by taking a look at the instructions.

What’s different about our kits?

Our kits are not mass-manufactured, plastic toy kits: this is real candle-making equipment and ingredients aimed at people who want to learn how to do it properly. They also make the ideal gift to introduce a loved one to the creative world of candle making.

Each kit contains:

5 x metal moulds (reuseable)
450g Blended Paraffin Wax
25 tealight pre-assembled wick and tabs
Pipette for measuring scent oil
5g Dye
30ml Scented Oil
Full illustrated instructions

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/flower-tart-candle-making-kit/

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2 Metal Flower/Tart Moulds

Kev — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 13:37:15 +0000

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Are we doing a good job?

Kev — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 10:09:02 +0000

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 problems. This might be that the site doesn’t allow them to do what they want, that we don’t stock a product they’d like to order or that their delivery hasn’t turned up. If that’s happened to you, then I hope you were pleased with the way we responded because taking care of customers and learning from what they tell us has been a driving principle of the way we do business right from the beginning. We’re a family firm, not a big corporate, and we try to bring that family feel to our products and service – it genuinely matters to us that you’re happy with your experience of shopping with us.

So, please tell us what you think of our service.

To let us know, simply complete the comment form at the bottom of this post and click submit, or, if you’re viewing this on the site’s home page, click the “comments” link below.

If you can describe your experiences, that would be great. We can’t offer any prizes for this because we want everyone’s comments to be unbiased but we will be truly grateful if you could spend a little time letting us know what you think.

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