How to make wax candles with your own hands

Long ago people looked at the fire and felt safe. Many centuries have passed, but even now, when you look at the hearth, the same feeling arises. But today we do not sit by the fires, they are replaced by wax candles. They give any room an atmosphere of intimacy, and a smooth swing of the flame fascinates people, like hundreds of thousands of years ago.

Today, when there are many different materials, you can make wax candles with your own hands at home, creating your own masterpieces. They can be of different shapes, sizes and colors.

Materials needed to create paraffin candles

You will need:

• Cotton thread;
• Wax crayons;
• Usual candles.

These materials are inexpensive and affordable.

Auxiliary materials for the production of candles

You will also need:

• Old saucepan;
• A container where the wax will melt;
• Two plastic or wooden sticks to stir the wax and fix the wick;
• Molds for making candles; these can be children's toys or plastic cups;
• Decorative ornaments for future creations.

In this case, you can select the materials at your discretion.

Nuances in choosing a wick

Any candles: church, wax, gel, paraffin - have a wick. It should be made from 100% cotton. It can be a ribbon of cloth or a string. The main thing is that there should not be synthetics in the composition. Particularly well look on the transparent candles are multi-colored wicks of thread mulina.

For each candle, the wick is selected individually. Its stiffness and thickness depend on the part of the candle, which will have to burn out. Also on her stuff. For wax candles, it is worth doing thick wicks, the threads of which are not very tightly woven. For paraffin or gel, on the contrary, it is necessary to tightly bind thin threads. Such a wick will not smoke when burning. It should be remembered that if wax crayons are used for painting , their chips may not dissolve in the candle material and clog the wick.

In short, there are many nuances that can only be understood in practice. If the wick is thick, then the wax candles will smoke and burn too quickly. And very thin will often go out. In general, you need to try and experiment.

The wick can be twisted (like a rope), braided into a pigtail or tied with a hook. Directly before casting, it is better to impregnate the filaments with wax, but many people think that it is not necessary to fill them with wax, paraffin or gel.

The principle of creating a candle

To make wax candles with your own hands, you need to find the right shape. You can use any plastic cups, children's toys, that is anything, where you can pour paraffin. However, this container must withstand a temperature of 100 °. For the first time, it's better to take a simple form to understand the principle of creating a candle.

At the end of a cotton rope, a knot is tied. After that, a hole is made on the bottom of the mold. It inserts this wick of cotton so that its knot is outside. He will later be riding a candle, and also will not allow wax or paraffin to flow out of the mold when it is created. Next, you need to fix the second end of the wick, which will be at the bottom of the finished product. It should be in the middle of the form. To do this, take any stick, you can take a toothpick or a match. It is put across the form, and to its center is attached the second end of the wick. It is necessary that he was in the center and vnatyag. Once everything is fixed, you can proceed to create a candle.

We need material to fill out the form. Therefore, take candles of the church, wax, paraffin, in general, all that is available. They should be finely chopped to make chips. It is put into a tin can and installed on a water bath. That is, a pot of water is taken, put on fire, and after its boiling, a container with material for the candle is immersed there. It becomes liquid under the influence of temperature, and then it can be poured into a candle mold. In the process, you can use any container, the main thing - not glass.

Materials for coloring candles

To make the product of the desired color, for example, you want to get wax green candles, red, blue, or even multi-colored, then you need to add a dye to the composition. The most widely used material for this is children's wax crayons. In general, you can use any fat-soluble dye. If you take gouache or watercolor, they will not work, because they will not be able to dissolve in the material, and they will just swim in pieces, and then settle on the bottom.

Some masters apply lipstick and shadows to paint their masterpieces. However, in the process of burning candles, lipstick gives off a smell. If it is pleasant, then this is an excellent option, not only in terms of color, but also the aromatic effect.

Also, special dyes for candles are sold, where there are many colors and shades. Using them, you can make both snow-white and black candles (wax or paraffin). Adding them in various proportions, you will achieve both gentle pastel tones, and bright saturated colors.

Pouring material into the mold

If everything is prepared, proceed to the main stage. Form from the inside lubricate with vegetable oil or liquid, which is used when washing dishes. This is necessary to make the frozen candle easier to remove. First, some material is poured on the bottom to close the hole with the wick. After all, if you fill all the space at once, then wax or paraffin waxes strongly. And this is inconvenient, and it will take a lot longer.

After the bottom has solidified, pour the rest of the wax or paraffin until it fills the entire container. When it's ready, wait until the wax cools down at room temperature. Thus, the wax candles will cool gradually and evenly. If you try to speed up the process and immerse the product in the freezer, the surface of the candle can crack, which will spoil its appearance.

Removing the candle from the mold

It is necessary to untie the knot on the wick where the top of the product will be, then pull on it from the other side. The candle should be disconnected. If the product is not removed, there are two solutions: the first - to cut the shape, the second - to put everything in the freezer for two minutes. After that, the candle is immediately covered with hot water. Due to the sharp temperature drop, it can be easily removed.

After that, the wick is shortened to the required size, and the seams, which are left from the mold, must be doused with hot water - then they will disappear. However, the product loses its original shine. Therefore, when you create wax candles, molds should be selected without seams, so that later there were no problems with their elimination.

Aroma candles

They do the same as wax, but with the addition of essential oils. They will fill the room with a pleasant scent when burning. You can use any essential oil, only not pink. It gives off a suffocating smell when burning. In the liquid wax, you need to add the necessary flavor, then thoroughly mix everything. After everything becomes homogeneous, the wax is poured into the mold. The further actions are identical to the foregoing.

Self-made wax candles burn and look very beautiful. However, you can make such accessories absolutely transparent, like it's water. They are made from gel, which is specially prepared for this.

Gel candles

To create such a charming miracle, you can buy gel wax from the store. But if desired, it is easy to do at home. To do this, you need:

• water;
• tannin;
• glycerol;
• gelatin.

Take 5 parts of gelatin (always colorless) and dissolve it in 20 parts of water. After this, add 25 parts of glycerin and mix everything thoroughly, after which a transparent essence will appear. To it add 2 tannin fractions, which are previously dissolved in 10 parts of glycerin. Immediately after the joint, a dirty sediment forms, which disappears when it boils. After the creation of a transparent mixture, it is poured into the mold, as are conventional wax candles, the manufacturing of which we discussed above.

The appearance of such candles can be made even more effective by adding dyes in them. Thus, they can be given gentle colors of any color. And you can pour different colors into an unshakable mixture to get bizarre abstractions.