Anyone Make Candles?
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Thank you so much for your ideas. It’s really helped me open my mind to things “outside” of my normal realm of consideration.
I’ve been browsing around the internet and came across soy candle making kits.
You can get kits where you make the candles and then sell them (if you want to sell them that is).
That kind of appeals to me.
I’m just wondering if anyone has tried their hand at candle making?
I do love candles but the parrafin ones give me headaches.
I have a beautiful vanilla soy candle that I’m scared to use because I don’t want to use it all up.
Kinda silly I know!
Anyway, if I could make my own I wouldn’t have to worry about that.
I could make some nice gifts.
And maybe if I love it enough, even make myself a bit of pocket money down the track.
We’ll see.
So far, it’s the one thing that seems to be really “exciting” me.
So what do you think? A good hobby?
If anyone has had any experience with candle making, I’d love to hear it. Or any recommendations on where to purchase supplies. It’s kind of overwhelming at first trying to sort through the options and information and first hand experience is always helpful. 
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My sister does, & I’m tempted to try. I bought her a kit (from Heirloom Body Care) for christmas a few years back, and she has had fun with it. She also likes making body products - hand creams, body scrubs, bath melts, etc. Also fun, I do a little of that as well, but she is better at it than I am.
If that’s what appeals to you, then it would make a great hobby.
My one and only attempt was to melt a white candle, add food colouring and reset it in another shape. It looked awful and I forgot to add a wick. I was ten.
hello there. i came across your story on candles let me start off by imyself make candles i just started myself but now am off to another adventure in thecandle making. i first started by going to you tube look up candles and came across this lady name tracy porter she shows you the eaisiest way to start to make the candle melt the wax and if you like the scent. i myself now do photos on candles i also do wedding candles votives and i dress the candles up with vases ribbon and and decorative rocks and dried flowers that i dryed myself wen my flowers were fresh. also you can go to wwwpeafkcandle.com they have very great scents wen you buy one bottle they automatically givee you another sent free that is peakcandles.com and also they have a bunch of diffferent things from scents to molds to wax chips to everything i myself like wax chips those are the best to use. if you cant use parrafin soy is good also for me parrifin works the best i made a heart shaped mold candle and it came out great and i added a photo on to it.were soy i cant to much with a mold i like to take out lthe mold and soy to me i cant that. ive done several betty boop candles ive done photo candles and i also have a were one side is original and the other side i actually colored and itss in the wax. candle making is a fun hobby and once you get into it you will b using everything in your house as a mold,,, i also use for my molds are empty arizona tea cans i use a coke can. i use a beer can i use a red bull can and the molds come out great. but that is all done with parrafin wax some of my candles are for decoration only cause you cant burn the candles with the photos in them… but that is my hobby and i just thought i share a lil about were you can get scents and go online to candles…..thank you if you like to get bk at me i can b reached by email at sandramqhuerta@yahoo.com.
if you like too sell your candles theres a site called etsy.com theres ebay and theres craiglist which am trying to put my candles onat the moment. i only have pics of what ive done in my gallery on my phone but if you would like to see my work let me know threw email and mayb we can set something up were i can show you what ive learned an the work ive done i hope i helped you a lil good luck and go forward and never give up if it dosent come out the first time you can always remelt the wax and work at it agin believe me ive had to do that several times and i still do it if i dont like the way it comes out. thank you