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Candle Making Jars

If you’re a candle maker, your first stop should be at a jar store to look for candle making jars you can use in creating your beautiful candles.  Jars are reusable and can be cleaned properly after use.  These are also the safest containers to use for candle making.  In an ordinary household, you might [...]

Oil Candle Making

Oil candles have been around for ages, but people are more familiar with the wax type of candles.  This is because most oil candles are more often called “lamps”, which is quite fitting if you consider how oil candles are made.  Oil candle making is not a lost art.  There are more people making them [...]

Candle Making Equipment

How did the ancient people develop candles?  Why did candles get invented?  What candle making equipment did these ancients use? These are the questions in every candle enthusiast’s mind whenever they ponder on this ancient art that modern day artistes have developed.  The candles of old were used to carry flame from one place to [...]

How to Make Soy Candles

Soy candles are the easiest to make.  You don’t need special equipment like double broilers because you can melt soy wax in a simple pan.  However, as you learn how to make soy candles, you must grasp the basics.  For instance, the methods of using containers and molds to create the final product vary.  The size and type [...]

Soy Candle Wax

After centuries of using only paraffin wax for candle making, craftsmen in history have stumbled on several sources of natural waxes with which to make candles.  The green movement might also have contributed to the use of organic material to create candles.  The bottom line is that not many people can stand continually washing sooty [...]