Aromatic candles will enhance the ambience of a room. If you're a warm and romantic type of person, you will appreciate the aroma of scented candles. You and your guests will be intoxicated with a sense of well being. Also, the warm glow of just about any candle enhances the elegance of a room.

The subtle fragrance of scented candles will pep you up, even while the candle is unlit. So when you come home tired and worn out from the day, the presence of the perfumed candles tend to unwind you and make you feel uplifted.

Scented candles serve as wonderful gifts for any occasion and every season especially when they are made by your own hands.

1. Select Your Fragrance For Candle Making

Fragrance oil can be purchased in most craft shops. Also, you may buy it online. I would suggest that you opt for fragrance oils rather than going for inexpensive alcohol or water based fragrances. Since your wax mix will be oil based, use a fragrance that is also be oil based. Why? Oil and water do not mix so a water based perfume will not mix properly with the oil based wax.

2. Choose Your Wax

The basics of scented candle making are more or less the same as for ordinary wax candles. Begin by choosing your wax type. Available in the market is a versatile range of wax beginning with naturals from beeswax, palm or soy and moving along to paraffin or gel wax. You'll want to decide on the aromatic intensity for your candles before choosing your wax. For instance, wax with less density holds less fragrance than higher density wax.

3. The Process of Making Scented Candles

Now that we've talked about waxes, let's discuss the method for creating scented candles.

1st step is to melt your wax. For this purpose, a double boiler can be used. That means put the wax in a small pot. Now place that container into a slightly larger pot partially filled with water. Now heat the water. Use a thermometer to ensure the wax is not burnt. The temperature should be maintained at 170-180 degrees Fahrenheit.

Once the wax has melted, put a wick in the mold and remove your wax from the source of heat. Next add the fragrance oil that you've selected. 1 ounce fragrance oil to 1 pound wax will create a fragrance of 6%. Appreciate that larger portions of fragrance oil means the candle to burn out sooner.

Now pour your melted wax/fragrance mix into it's mold. The only job left is to let the whole thing cool before removing your candle from it's mold.

Congratulations on a job well done!

4. Experiment as You Go Along

You will gain great expertise in all phases of candle making once you start experimenting. By using different fragrances and colors, you will perfect the candle making technique and thoroughly enjoy the process.

It's a great feeling to gift your loved ones with a scented candle that is homemade knowing that they will find the fragrance both relaxing and invigorating.

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