Aromatic candles will enhance the ambience of a room. If you are a soft, romantic person, you will enjoy the aroma of scented candles. Your guests will be intoxicated with calm and well being. As you will appreciate, the flickering glow of any candle heightens 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 frazzled, the aroma & flickering glow of a scented wax candle will relieve your tightness & lift your spirits.

Scented candles are wonderful gifts for any occasion and/or season, especially when made by your own hands.

1. Pick Your {Fragrance For Candle Making}

Fragrance oil is available in virtually any craft shop. 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, your fragrance should also be oil based. Why? As oil & water do not mix, a water based perfume tends not to mix with oil based wax.

2. Pick Your Wax

The basics of {scented candle making} are more or less the same as for ordinary wax candles. Start by choosing your desired kind of wax. 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. It is important that you decide on the fragrance intensity for your candles before picking the kind of wax. For example, in case of gel candles, gel wax with less density holds less fragrance compared to gel wax with higher density.

3. The Art of Making Aromatic Candles

Let’s cover the method for making aromatic candles.

1st step is to melt your wax. I suggest using a double boiler. Which means put the wax in a small pot. Then put that container inside a slightly larger pot containing water. Now heat the H2O. Use a thermometer to avoid burning your wax. The temperature must be kept between 170 &180 degrees F.

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. A mixture of 1 ounce fragrance oil to 1 pound wax will produce a fragrance that permeates your candle up to 6% of its density. Greater amounts of fragrance oil will cause the candle to burn out quicker.

Now pour the melted wax/fragrance mixture into your mold. The only job remaining is to let it cool before removing your candle from it’s mold.

Congratulations, well done!

4. Experiment as You Go

You will develop expertise in all aspects of the candle craft when 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 award your friends with a {homemade scented candle} knowing that they will find the fragrant essences both relaxing and invigorating.