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Candle making instructions for home

One of the best things about the internet is that it has provided access to what used to be obscure skills and hobbies, opening up whole new worlds of at-home crafts and pasttimes for the masses.

In that spirit, it's time to look at candle making instructions. Wicks-wax-scents.com provides the following candle making instructions:

We use loaf pans purchase at various stores, flea markets, and yard sales. Just about anything we could find to make our primitive candles. We just have to make sure that there are no ridges of any kind. The candle won't release if it has obstructions! Of course, a candle won't come out of a paper cup most of the time, so we just peel the paper away and start decorating!

They have been called ice candles, grubby and grunge candles, but what ever you call them, this is how the staff of Starla's Candle Making does that thing we do...........best! lol (I'm the staff)

Heat the wax, add the color, the scent, and we are ready to go. We need to add more color then usual with the outer layer of grunge.

Grunging seems to make the normal amount of color added to turn to a lighter shade. Dark and primitive country is the look wanted here.

So for 5 lbs. of wax, I add 1 1/2 to 2 color blocks for a dark primitive look, or less for a lighter look.

Now this is only for the outside grunged on wax. If you add this much color to a 5 lb block of wax, it would be too much ....your candles wouldn't burn right....the wick would clog.

BUT, if the inside of your candle is more or less white, and you add this concentrated colored wax to the outside, then this color will bleed inside the candle when it is burning.

There by making the candle look dark on the inside, as it burns, but not affect the actual burn. Wow, I hope you can follow me on that one.

So you see that's it's fairly simple. Other candle making instructions can be more complex, or even more simple if you'd like to do a scentless candle, but that's up to you. Candles have been around for nearly 2300 years, and candle making instructions have obviuosly been around for just as long as that, so there's clearly no right way or wrong way. As long as you end up with a candle that burns true, you've followed your candle making instructions correctly.

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